Cooking time if making half the recipie?!


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Cooking time if making half the recipie?

if i halve a recipe for a cake that originally made enough for two 9 inch round cake pans (so i would just use 1 9 inch round cake pan), will i have to decrease the baking time? the recipe calls for the both the cakes to be baked at the same time, i think. or would it effect the batter if i just baked the cakes one at a time, since i don't have two round cake pans? thanks!


Answers:
Hi
Should take about the same amount of time.
Yes, you can bake one, then bake the other.
If you have a long pan like 13 x 9 you can use that. If you want to put two layers together then cut the cake in half and put them on top of each other.

A round cake pan and a square cake pan can make a heart shaped cake easitly (single layer) cut round layer in half. Put half the round on one side of the square cake and the other half on the other side of the square cake. You square cake will be turned first to look like a diamond shape.

To much info? lol

Source(s):
me, years and years of cooking

You can do either, and the baking time will stay the same. If you make the full recipe, you can bake one at a time, just make sure you let the oven reach the proper temperature again before baking the second layer. (getting the first cake out of the oven will let quite a bit of heat escape... also let the first cake sit for 10 minutes before removing it from the pan...

I also suggest NOT refridgerating while baking the first layer (I'm guessing baking the first layer and reheating the oven won't take more than 30 - 50 minutes, not long enough to be unsafe for the batter at room temperature since it will all be cooked) because if you cool the batter down during the first baking, it will affect the baking time of the second cake.

it will be the same...you can just maybe check it 5/10 minutes before its supposed to be ready and stick a tooth pick in it to see if it comes out clean!? and go from there

You can bake both the cakes one right after the other. It will take you longer to do it this way, because you have to wait for the first cake to cool enough that you can take it out of the cake pan (about 5 min.) and then you'll want to cool the cake pan by running cool water over it (and drying it!) before you put the batter into it again. The baking time should not be affected, but I always make sure that I set the timer for 5 min. or so before I'm supposed to, just to ensure the cake doesn't burn. You can test the cakes "doneness" by inserting a toothpick or butter knife in and making sure it comes out clean.




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