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I’m doing a tiered cake with sponge cakes that are deeper than the usual, but need to do a fruit cake to match the height . My recipe does about a 3-4″ fruit cake any ideas.

Also can anyone point me in the direction of any of Paul’s tutorials that shows how to get the deeper sponge cakes

Thanks

Hictennant

For the fruit cake I would suggested baking half recipe layer which can be used to give the extra height. Fruit cakes can be stuck together with boiled jam however I would suggest putting a centre dowel through the two to keep the cakes stable. I stuck fruit cakes together at Christmas, wasn’t happy with a little movement and found the skewer just gave me that little peace of mind. Paul doesn’t have a recipe for deeper sponges, you’ll find
Mrs Jones’ deep vanilla cake recipe here http://www.cakeflix.com/online-cake-decorating-courses/mrs-joness-recipe-for-10-round-deep-sponge-cake I hope I’ve understood the second part of your question correctly.