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Hi,

Being a bit of a douche bag here. I’m new at making cakes and attempting the sailor boy cake.In the equipment list it says,
4″Round Choc Cake (5″ Deep)
6″ Round Choc Cake (5″ Deep)

Would I be looking for 4 inch by 5cm and a 6 inch by 5cm deep cake tins?

Could you assist with maybe links to these tins as I can’t seem to find them, that’s if I have read the measurements correctly.

Many thanks
Paul

Hi Paul

I think you may be confusing Imperial and metric measures. The cakes and tin sizes in this tutorial are given in Imperial, that is in inches and not centimetres. If you don’t have these sizes you may need to either buy the tins or bake slightly larger ones and cut them down. Here is link which shows the baking tins:
http://www.cake-stuff.com/equipment-c7/cake-tins-c55
Most recipes are written for 3″ tall cakes. To make a taller cake it will be necessary to bake two 3″ tall cakes to get the extra height and slice a little off to make the height you want. Please let me know if this helps.

Thanks for that, I don’t know why I put cm..
So these two tins are what you would use,baked twice then cut down to size.

http://www.cake-stuff.com/equipment-c7/cake-tins-c55/round-cake-tins-c165/invicta-4-round-professional-cake-tin-p1176

http://www.cake-stuff.com/equipment-c7/cake-tins-c55/round-cake-tins-c165/invicta-5-round-professional-cake-tin-p1177

Many thanks, I think my cake making journey, is going to be a little slower than expected lol

It depends which recipes I’m using. Most of the time I use the right size tin that the recipe asks for. However if it’s a light sponge I just use a sheet cake pan and cut the rounds out with a pastry ring or use victoria sandwich tins. If you are going to use a dense cake recipe like madeira or chocolate mud cake it will be wiser to use baking pans as shown in the link because these recipes take longer to bake.

It takes a little time to build up baking equipment. Unfortunately we can’t own every single cake pan size, it would be impractical to do so unless we have lots of storage room or if we are a bakery! There are other brands like Wilton, PME, Mermaid, Silverwood, Masterclass and many others. Google them all by name to see suppliers and prices. I would avoid the cheap supermarket pans because some are very thin and distort during baking. The most popular beginner size pans are 10″, 8″ and 6″ and 8″ round victoria sandwich tins. Alternatively cake tins can be hired out very cheaply from local cake decorating shops. If you prefer not to buy at the moment this may be a good route. Good day to hire is Saturday morning to return on Monday. Bake Saturday and Sunday for the price of one day hire providing the shop is closed on the Sunday! Works out well if there are several cakes to bake.

For this tutorial I would bake all the cakes at 6″ rounds and cut down a couple of them to 5″. To accurately reduce the size place a 5″ cake board on the 6″ cake and cut around with a serrated knife.

Hope this helps, please let me know if you need more information.