Christmas Cake Recipe Square Tin

It is really rich and moist.

Christmas cake recipe square tin. Hello helena i suggest but have not tested a 12 egg quantity for your 12 inch square tin. It s packed with fruit and it seems the longer you keep it the better it tastes. This is truly the best christmas cake ever. We thought we would never get through it it was so huge but it was gone within a week or so.

And square to calculate the volume of the tins. We would recommend baking this cake in either a deep 6 cake tin or 8 cake tin. Grease a 20cm 8inch round or an 18cm 7inch square cake tin and line the bottom and sides with baking parchment. My recipes assumed that the depth of the cake tin is 2.

The formula for increasing ingredients for cakes is below. Heat the oven to 150c 300f gas2. Bake for between 3 hours 4 hours happy baking. Then give it extra layers of protection around the outside and make sure the top is covered with a double layer of parchment not touching the cake mix.

If you re using a square tin for a round tin recipe keep the temperature the same and turn the cake during baking as the corners tend to cook faster than the middle. This quantity will make a deep 11cm square cake or 2 small loaf tins 13cm x 6cm. Nigella s classic fruit cake recipes in both feast and christmas have tables for 3 different sizes of cake but to start you need to work out the round tin equivalent for your square tin as most cake recipes give tin sizes for round tins. I hope you don t mind if i mention that cake tins are traditionally measured across the base 450g dried fruits.

However as a general rule square tins hold about 25 per cent more than round tins of the same size. This is one of the best fruit cake recipe i have ever made. It did make a lot and i had to put it in a 26cm or 10inch square tin which fit perfectly. Grease a 20cm 8inch round or an 18cm 7inch square cake tin and line the bottom and sides with baking parchment.

The cooking temperature would be the same but it might take longer to cook and it s a good idea to turn the cake tin round in the oven a few times after it has had its first 4 hours or 3 hours for a 6 inch 15cm cake because the corners. When calculating ingredients for square and round tins remember that the quantities for an 8 round tin will only be enough for a 7 square tin. Sieve the flour salt mixed spice and cinnamon into a bowl. As a rule of thumb a square tin holds about 25 more than a round tin of the same size.