8" round instead of 9", Why not!?? ...help ...lol

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I have seen the conversion webpages and find them useful but...I bought 8" round instead of 9"...why can't I just decrease by 25 degrees and cook longer instead of changing recipes.  Most layer cakes I find are for two 9" not two 8"...and I know I can do three 8" but I don't want to wait for my pans to cool, keep oven on, etc.

so....some websites say I can decrease by 25 degrees and just cook longer and others say no.  I am not concerned about spillage FYI ...my cake pans are deep enough.

 

another thing...I bought new pans, threshold cake pans from target (im new to cake)... And sides were crispy on a recent cake.  Same size issues mentioned above, but I didn't reduce temp.  It's nonstick steel though ...however the pan isn't dark, should I reduce 25 for these pans anyways....it was an oil and yogurt cake and I have noticed when I make these cakes their sides crisp/brown faster vs when I do butter...it could be that but wanted to see what you guys thought of the type of pan......

You might not get much advice about cake and cake pans on a site devoted to artisan bread.

Of course, I could be wrong about that! :)

since most tins are sized on diameter, knowing the other area formula is handy...

Some of my cake recipes are scaled by egg weight too - makes it much easier to scale them up and down - maybe not that handy in the home kitchen, but it makes life easy when making e.g. 7 cakes on 2 different tin sizes and you just want to make up one big mix because you have a big mixer...

-Gordon

Figure out how much batter your recipe makes, then see how much batter your pan holds. You can certainly bake a 9" cake recipe in an 8" pan, but you won't be able to fill it as much. Also pans come in different widths too. Wilton has a great baking chart, but it's for 2" width pans and mine are 1.5" inches tall so I use less batter and check at the minimum time. Also different recipes act differently. My yellow cake can fill the tin 3/4 of the way full, but my chocolate will overflow during baking if I fill it more than half way. http://www.wilton.com/cakes/making-cakes/baking-serving-guide.cfm And yeah, check out Wilton.com or Cake Central for cake stuff. I've learned a lot from them about cakes. Now it's time to learn more about bread! :D