Wedding cake recipe for heart shaped cake tins

moondrops | 14:59 Sat 07th Jun 2008 | Recipes

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Can anyone help me please. I am going to make my daughter's wedding cake. 3 Tiers, all fruit. The cake will be heart shaped. I have looked at recipes for square and round but cannot find any which tell me how to calculate the amounts I need for a heart shaped tin.
The baking tins I will be using will be 12-9-6 inches. Not sure how to calculate the volume but I need to get it right or I could be in trouble. Any advice please.

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dave123456

If you fill the heart shaped tins with water, that will give you their combined volume.
If you then fill a known size square tin with water, you can work out the proportional difference, and so calculate the appropriate recipe size adjustment.

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Many thanks, will give it a try!

skyep

Hi moondrops - Use the equivelant recipe for a square cake tin that would fit the heart shaped tin inside. Have a trial run with one. I would think as long as you leave about an inch from the top of the tin to allow space for rising then it will be o.k! May be you will have some cake mixture over, if so bake it in a little baked bean can & make a mini fruit cake so there's no waste xx

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