Right here’s an in-depth have a look at widespread cake pan sizes & conversions, in addition to the right way to alter recipes or make substitutions primarily based on the pan sizes you’ve got.
Until you’ve got totally stocked kitchen with dozens of baking pans, chances are high that you just’ll run right into a recipe the place you don’t have the particular pan required. In actual fact, a cake pan substitution is the topic of most recipe questions I obtain. I figured it might be simpler to retailer all of this data in a single handy place for us all to reference.
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Frequent Baking Pan Measurements
On this checklist, you’ll discover widespread baking pan measurements and the amount of batter they maintain. ***The quantity listed is the overall quantity of batter every pan holds, however you often solely fill cake pans midway (until in any other case famous within the recipe you’re utilizing). Most measurements have been taken at my house kitchen. Cross referenced with the all the time trusted Pleasure of Baking, as effectively.
Measurement Conversions
Spherical Pans:
6×2 inches (15 x 5cm) = 4 cups (960ml)
8×2 inches (20 x 5cm) = 6 cups (1.4 liters)
9×2 inches (23 x 5cm) = 8 cups (1.9 liters)
Sq. Pans:
8×2 inch sq. (20 x 5 cm) = 8 cups (1.9 liters)
9×2 inch sq. (23 x 5 cm) = 10 cups (2.4 liters)
10×2 inch sq. = (25 x 5 cm) = 12 cups (2.8 liters)
Rectangular Pans – 2 inch (5 cm) tall
11×7 inches (28 x 18 cm) = 10 cups (2.4 liters)
13×9 inches (33 x 23 cm) = 14 cups (3.3 liters)
Springform Pans:
9x 2.5 inches (23 x 6 cm) = 10 cups (2.4 liters)
10x 2.5 inches (25 x 6 cm) = 12 cups (2.8 liters)
Bundt Pan – quantity varies due to numerous designs
10×3 inch (25 x 8 cm) = 10-12 cups (2.8 liters)
Tube Pan:
9×3 inches (23 x 8 cm) = 12 cups (2.8 liters)
Jelly Roll Pans – 1 inch (2.5 cm) tall
10×15 inches (27 x 39 cm) = 10 cups (2.4 liters)
12×17 inches (32 x 44 cm) = 12 cups (2.8 liters)
Loaf Pans – about 3 inches (8 cm) tall
8×4 inch (20 x 10 cm) = 4 cups (960 ml)
9×5 inch (23 x 13 cm) = 8 cups (1.9 liters)
Easy methods to Decide the Quantity Your self
If you wish to calculate a pan’s quantity your self, it’s really easy! Merely fill your pan with 1 cup of water at a time and rely till it’s full. That’s what I do!
How A lot Does This Pan Maintain?
Right here’s a useful checklist of the commonest baking pans and the amount of batter they maintain, in addition to which pans maintain the identical quantity of batter. ***Remember the fact that the volumes listed imply you’re filling the pan all the best way to the highest with batter, which isn’t best for baked items. Until in any other case famous, filling pans round 2/3 full is the very best follow. This leaves room for rising.
Use the next part to find out which baking pans might be substituted for others primarily based on their full quantity.
Spherical Pans
Sq. Pans
Rectangle Pans
Jelly Roll Pans
Bundt Pans
10-inch bundt pans are the usual measurement. I even have a number of which are 9.5 inches and most bundt cake recipes nonetheless match.
Tube Pans
9×3 inch tube pans are the usual measurement. I’ve a number of which are 8 inch and 10 inch and most recipes utilizing tube pans match properly in all.
Springform Pans
Loaf Pans
Enthusiastic about a extra in-depth cake baking & serving information primarily based on sizes? I like directing readers to this Wilton Cake Baking & Serving Information web page. It’s so useful!
Substituting Cake Pans – “9 inch round cake”
I’m piggy-backing this one to the part above as a result of there’s typically a have to substitute totally different cake pans. If substituting a baking pan that holds the identical quantity of batter, be cautious of the baking time as a result of the scale of the baked good will change. All the time preserve your eye on the oven and start checking for doneness sooner than the recipe states.
Bear in mind, solely fill pans about 2/3 full until in any other case famous within the recipe.
Adapting Recipes to Match Sure Cake Pans
Adapting recipes to suit the cake pans you’ve got (or want) can typically be difficult. Whereas it’s all the time finest to stay to the written recipe, generally it’s worthwhile to make changes and that’s the place slightly math may also help.
1) Decide the amount your pan can maintain. It’s also possible to decide the precise floor space of the pan in sq. inches. I really used Meals 52’s article by Alice Medrich on this topic to brush up on my math!
2) After you establish the amount your pan can maintain or its sq. inches, you’ll be able to confidently make baking pan substitutions.
What if volumes and sq. inches don’t match up completely? You’ll have to regulate the recipe and this requires extra math.
For instance, if you wish to adapt a 9-inch spherical cake to a 10-inch spherical cake, you’ll have to make changes. A 9-inch spherical cake pan is 63.5 sq. inches/holds 8 cups of batter. A ten-inch spherical cake pan is 78.5 sq. inches/holds 10-11 cups of batter. With none adaptions, your 10-inch cake layers can be very skinny. You’ll want to extend the batter by 25%.
The get this proportion, work with the cups or sq. inches. Subtract the quantity you’ve got (8 cups) from the quantity you need (10 cups). Divide that (2 cups) by what you’ve got (8 cups), then multiply by 100. (The common technique to discover a proportion.) This equals 25%.
Easy methods to Keep away from the Math
What works for me more often than not (as a result of I don’t belief myself with an excessive amount of math!) is to 1.5x the recipe and even making 2 batches of batter. (For finest success, style, and texture, I all the time advocate making separate full batches as a substitute of doubling. Doubling dangers over-mixing or under-mixing and will overwhelm your mixer.) Then, I exploit leftover batter to make a number of cupcakes on the facet to freeze for one more time.
It’s higher to have further batter relatively than not sufficient.
What About Eggs?
If you happen to want a part of an egg for when you find yourself adjusting a recipe, crack the egg, beat it, and no matter proportion of that combination you want. If you happen to want 1/3 of an egg and you’ve got 3 Tablespoons of overwhelmed egg, use 1 Tablespoon. For a extra exact quantity and should you don’t belief your measurements, you too can weigh the overwhelmed egg on a kitchen scale to find out precisely how a lot you want.
Quantity of Batter A few of my Cake Recipes Yield
The next checklist will assist if it’s worthwhile to alter my recipes for various pan sizes. These are the recipes I do know and all measurements are approximate.
“9 inch round cake”