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asked April 25th 2017

Fruit cake tin size

If I make the fruit cake from the tutorial page will the ingredients fill a tin that is 10″ x 8″ or should I increase the recipe?
Thanks in advance

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If I make the fruit cake from the tutorial page will the ingredients fill a tin that is 10″ x 8″ or should I increase the recipe?
Thanks in advance

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Oh thank you so much! That’s a really helpful thing to know. I will use this from now on.

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Hi mrsh1978

Mrs Jones’ fruit cake recipe from the tutorial page is for an 8″ round. To scale the recipe up for 10″ use the site’s cake recipe calculator here :

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The recipe is already loaded on, use the down arrow for a drop down menu to see it then fill in the grid the size you require. If you have any problems just shout back. 🙂

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Thank you madeitwithlove. This is probably a stupid question but my cake tin is rectangular and is 10″x 8″ so when choosing the diameter of the cake i’m scaling up to, do I choose the width as 8″ or 10″ please?

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I see! the calculator only does square and round and you have rectangle tin. In that case you can use the ingredients for a 9″ square tin which is closest to the surface area of your tin.
This is how it works on surface area of both tins: 10 x 8 = 80, 9 x 9 = 81.

Hope this helps. Shout if you need more information.

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You’re welcome mrsh1978. Happy baking, you’ve chosen a fab cake to bake. 🙂

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