Scaling up a fruit cake

[masma]

I have a recipe for an 8 inch fruit cake, I need to scale it up to 12 inches. Can anyone advise me how I can do this please. Thank you x

[alid5]

http://www.deliaonlin...-up-cake-recipes.html
hope this helps

[ojread2]

that's a brilliant link for fruit cakes, saved to my faves

However, I disagree with the comment 'you can't just double it' - with ordinary sponge mixes you can do just that. SR flours of today also make it so you can make it all at once if you only have 1 or 2 tins
I make cakes all the time and consistently double my mixes and it work very well

[alid5]

'you can't just double it' reference to fruit cakes

[Old_Geezer]

You didn't say whether the height was to stay the same. You can make it shorter and use the same qualtity of ingredients for a 12" diameter one, can't you ?

Otherwise if the height is to remain the same then the area of a circle is pi * diameter divided by 4, so :

452/201 = 2.249 So I guess you can multiply all the qualtities by about 2.2.

But if the height can be anything just multiply by your favourite figure and it'll be the height it turns out to be.

[masma]

Thank you all very much xx