how to line cake tin

Using grease and flour

• Using a pastry brush, brush a very thin layer of grease on the inside of a cake tin.

• Put some flour into the cake tin.

• Pat the cake tin to coat the flour all over on the inside surface of the cake tin.

• Once the tin is completely coated with flour, pat the tin and remove any excess flour, leaving only a thin coating of flour in the tin.

Note: If you are making a chocolate cake, you can add some cocoa powder to the flour before dusting the cake tin.

Using greaseproof paper.

There are 2 ways of lining a cake with greaseproof paper.

First method: 

• Line the tin with a thin layer of grease.

• Place the cake tin on the greaseproof paper. Mark the diameter of the tin on paper.

• Next, measure the height of the cake tin. Mark another circle outside the diameter of the cake tin following the height measurement of the cake tin, plus an extra allowance of 2 inches. Cut out the circle.

• From the edge of the larger circle, make snips of about 4 -5 inches apart, all around the circle right to the outer edge of the cake tin diameter circle.

• Place the greaseproof paper into the greased cake tin and secure the top well. Grease the paper-lined cake tin before pouring cake batter into it.

Second method: