What height are the 6” pans?? 6” x 1 1/2”, 6” x 2”, 6” x 3”?? And the 8” pan, what height is it? This makes a big difference on the amount of batter in each pan. You can google approximately how much batter needed in the 6” x the height. Then a simple trick is to pour water in the amount of your batter into your 8” pan to see if the amount will work. Hope this helps.
oh i'm so sad -- I went to check cakulator and it said "account suspended" wah wah -- I loved that place! so so helpful -- sniff
hope it comes back
If my recipes called for three 6" pans, I would feel perfectly comfortable using two 8" pans.
The area of a 6" pan is 28.25 sq inches. (pi x radius squared). the area for 3 pans is 84.75 sq inches. The area for 2 8 " pans is 100.5 square inches. (For volume, multiply the bold numbers by the depth desired, but assuming you want the depth to be the same, I left that out of the calculations). Your single recipe for 3 6" pans would fill the 2 8" pans but about 20% (1/5) less full. If you double your recipe, you would have too much fo 2 8" pans. You could either make 1.5 times your recipe which would be just about perfect (it would make 2 slightly fuller 8" pans), or double your recipe and make 3 slightly fuller 8" pans. Freeze the extra for layer for later, or make cupcakes with the extra batter! HTH
Quote by @yortma on 4 hours ago
The area of a 6" pan is 28.25 sq inches. (pi x radius squared). the area for 3 pans is 84.75 sq inches. The area for 2 8 " pans is 100.5 square inches. (For volume, multiply the bold numbers by the depth desired, but assuming you want the depth to be the same, I left that out of the calculations). Your single recipe for 3 6" pans would fill the 2 8" pans but about 20% (1/5) less full. If you double your recipe, you would have too much fo 2 8" pans. You could either make 1.5 times your recipe which would be just about perfect (it would make 2 slightly fuller 8" pans), or double your recipe and make 3 slightly fuller 8" pans. Freeze the extra for layer for later, or make cupcakes with the extra batter! HTH
yourtma you are brilliant -- and this is exactly why I loved the cakulator So Much! hahahaha
but still I could've gone to the wilton wedding cake data chart and checked out the volume listed there -- but I had already started nursing my broken heart for cakulator -- let's hope nobody blows out wilton's light --
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