Cake tin liners for deep tin

[BerfyTigot]

Hello
I'm just getting into baking and I want to try a fruit cake.
Does anyone know if you can get tin liners for deep cake tins? Seems very fiddly to use baking paper and I'm not sure how to secure it.

Also,
I'm trying to recreate a recipe that my nan used to make but so far no success! It was a light fruit cake. Any ideas?
Cheers

You can just draw round the bottom of the cake tin and cut a circle out, then cut a long strip out as deep as the tin, long enough to go around it. If you smear a light touch of butter around the sides and bottom and put the side strip in, pressing and sticking it to the butter, it will be secure. Then put the circle in. The weight of the cake batter holds it all up really.

Fruit cake recipes do tend to be passed around so it might be difficult to recreate exactly I’m afraid. I have got a very moorish fruit cake recipe but have just got in bed, I will try to remember to dig it out tomorrow.

Agree with the above comment, but yes you can get deep cake tin liners. Our local cookware shop sells them.

Thanks so much for the replies especially @KittensAllOverTheCarpetAndSofa
That's really helpful advice about sticking paper in with butter!!

@TitInATrance I'm about an hour's drive from my nearest cook shop sadly. But will look out for them when I next go. Thanks 😊

My granny used to make this

https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/11/21/the-fruit-loaf-recipe-that-time-forgot/amp/

I find this one quite light op, rather than a dense heavy fruit cake. If I ever take it into the office it’s gone in a day and one friends asks just for one of these cakes for her Birthday.

Friends Fruit cake.

ingredients:
4oz softened butter
4oz plain flour
4oz S.R Flour
pinch of salt
12oz mixed dried fruit
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
1tsp mixed spice
6oz Dark brown sugar
8 fluid Oz of hot (not boiling) water
2 eggs
Handful of chopped walnuts.
Cup of black tea.

Preheat oven to 180 (160 fan) grease & line large cake tin.
weigh out fruit into small bowl
Make a cup of black tea and pour over fruit to soak.
In a large bowl mix all the other ingredients APART FROM WALNUTS AND HOT WATER.
Strain the fruit then add that and mix as best you can with a wooden spoon.
Add the hot water -DONT PANIC-it will look as if it’s too sloppy, it will be fine.
pour mix into cake tin, sprinkle walnuts on top then poke some down into the cake mix with a skewer or teaspoon handle.
Bake for 15 mins then cover the top with foil and bake for a further 45 minutes- depending on your oven.

Enjoy.

@KittensAllOverTheCarpetAndSofa
Thanks very much for typing all that out! Really appreciate it.

I've got one attempt in the oven now, so will try yours at weekend.

@justanothercat thanks for that link too. Yours will be next week 😁unless we're all sick of fruit cake by then 😁

The way I was taught was to make the sides taller than I need, snip a fringe along the bottom and fold it in. This allows it to cope with the curve better and stops gaps even in a square tin. Then settle your bottom circle inside. And yes, a smear of something to stop movement.

Lakeland

@TheSandgroper thanks for this. I missed out on learning all these techniques, and it's really helpful to get tips like this now.

@erikbloodaxe thanks, I've just ordered some 👍

@BerfyTigot How did your cake go?

@TheSandgroper
It tasted amazing - unfortunately the dried fruit all sank, am going to try turning up the temp by 10° for the first 10 mins, and then turning it back to lower temp.

Unless you have any other tips that you'd care to share? (I'm assuming that you're actually Mary Berry - nice to meet you, Your Majesty 😁)

Like thesandgroper said, so a fold along the bottom of the paper, snip into it and then the folded (snipped) bit sits on bottom of tin and the ordinary bit goes up the side. And then the circle on the bottom on top of the snipped bits. If it's going to cook for a while I'd usually double line the tin and with Christmas cake I would put a layer of brown paper on outside of tin tied with string. If the top of the cake is browning too early then layer of paper on top

If the fruit is sinking it sounds as if the mix is too wet. The other thing you can do is dust the fruit in flour before mixing it in, it helps a bit. Be careful with the temperature as well. Fruit cakes are usually a low and slow bake.

@shoofly
Thanks for those tips about the wet mix. Will try again this weekend - when I've bought some more fruit.

I knew there was something about tying brown paper around the outside of the tin as I remember seeing my nan doing it for her Xmas cake.
Cheers

I have a very simple fruit cake recipe that takes literally 5 minutes to prep and the fruit has never sunk on me due to it being an all in one method.

I buy the value bags of mixed dried fruit from Sainsbury

225 g self raising flour
125g brown sugar or white sugar
125 marg melted and allowed to cool a tad
275 mixed dried fruit
2 tbs milk
2 eggs
pinch of salt
put all the dry ingredients into a bowl and mix (this mixes the fruit with the flour and sugar) then beat in the eggs and pour in the butter carefully and stir everything together - place into a round 18cm tin for 2 hours on gas 2 150c electric or 140 c fan oven

@MikeRafone Thanks so much for the recipe - I really appreciate everyone taking time to write them out. Good job my family likes cake! Interesting that yours has melted butter, will definitely try that one, thanks.

BerfyTigot its called a "Toss In Cake" make of that what you will. But its blardy marvellous with a coffee

There’s always this more recent Australian favourite https://slowcookertip.com/4-ingredients-xmas-cake/?fbclid=IwAR1be55S_5whwVYjQUJ4-5qI119xdY0Nn0MWlTeKCPJLeHa47yNdl3GWI64 Not using Baileys makes it a three ingredient cake.

I am gf, df so mine takes about 10 ingredients but the principal is the same and it’s very nice.

TheSandgroper. That looks good, you could use whiskey and cream to soak fruit instead?

@MikeRafone Probably. Isn’t that what Baileys is? As long as your volume is right and the flavours go together, who cares?

@MikeRafone 😂😂

@TheSandgroper looks good but I don't have a slow cooker unfortunately. Thanks anyway

Yes, this is the way I was taught at school and still use.

@BerfyTigot Slow cooker not alway necessary. https://www.4ingredients.com.au/recipes/fruit-cake