HELP cake recipe needed!

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My daughters 13th birthday cake has just ended up on the oven floor due to leaking cake tins.

The only other cake tin I have is a 9 inch deep round tin. Does anyone have a foolproof recipe for a vanilla sponge (not chocolate) for this size tin??

thank you!

id just make a Victoria sponge and weighing the mixture put half in the tin and half in a bowl - bake in the oven and then after decamping the sponge form the tin swap over the mixture using a spatula. sandwich together with vanilla butter

I saw this hack on a baking FB page - might help with the leaking pans?

I after use cake tin liners like these from Tesco

You can create your own version from parchment baking paper

Just use whatever recipe you have and stick a probe in and when it come out not sticky in the middle then it's done

Thanks that’s clever and much less wasteful than chucking them in the bin! I think the recipe was a bit dodgy as well, it had six egg whites, no egg yolks and all American cup measurements which I find so hard to be accurate with.. I’ll look for a basic Victoria sponge recipe and have another go..

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/grannys-victoria-sponge

Think I've used this recipe before

Each recipe I've looked at seems to do same amounts (in grams) of flour, sugar and butter and then eggs (often 4) and baking powder

Just weigh the eggs, and use the same amount of butter sugar and flour than whatever they eggs weighed in the shells. For that size time I would use maybe 3 eggs and use parchment paper high around the edge of the tin bake for 20 mins and check it and 5 mins or so longer until a skewer comes out clean

Thank you all. I’ve heard about the equal weight method before but never tried it. Makes sense not least because eggs are all so different in weight. Can’t be worse than my first attempt so here goes!

why the baking parchment high around the tin?

Use Delia smith or Mary berry Victoria sponge recipe and you can't go wrong