Good day Sazzy, please I have a little challenge. How can I scale a recipe to make a bigger cake? What I mean is that most recipes I come across are for 8" cakes, assuming I want to bake a 12" cake, how can I scale the recipe upwards? Thanks
2013 18:22 To scale a recipe, what I do is to get the size of pan the recipe is for and get the size of pan I want to bake i.e. If the recipe is for an 8" cake and I want to bake a 12" cake, then I get an 8" baking pan and fill it with water and pour it into the 12" pan. The number of times it takes to fill the 12" pan is the number of times you will need to multiply the ingrdients in the recipe. Hope this helps
If it takes 3 of the 8" pan to fill the 12" pan (this is an example), then if the recipe calls for 250g of butter, then you have to multiply 250 by 3 and the weight of butter needed becomes 750g. Do same for all the ingredients in the recipe.
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ReplyDeleteTo scale a recipe, what I do is to get the size of pan the recipe is for and get the size of pan I want to bake i.e. If the recipe is for an 8" cake and I want to bake a 12" cake, then I get an 8" baking pan and fill it with water and pour it into the 12" pan. The number of times it takes to fill the 12" pan is the number of times you will need to multiply the ingrdients in the recipe. Hope this helps
Thanks, I never thought of this.
ReplyDeletePls what do you mean by the number of times you multiply the ingredients in the recipe?
ReplyDeleteIf it takes 3 of the 8" pan to fill the 12" pan (this is an example), then if the recipe calls for 250g of butter, then you have to multiply 250 by 3 and the weight of butter needed becomes 750g. Do same for all the ingredients in the recipe.
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