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Lining a tin with baking paper
Baking cakes is great fun, but it is annoying when the mixture sticks to the sides of the cake tin after it has been baked. Your cakes will still taste great, but they won’t look quite so good.
If your cake tins are new and non stick, this shouldn’t be a problem. The bendy silicon ones are even better.
But if you tins are a bit old, or if you are making something a bit tricky, like the After Eight Mint Brownies, lining the tin will stop the cakes sticking and make it easier to lift them out.
Here’s how to do it.
If your tin is oblong or square, the easiest way is to make a rough cross with two pieces of paper:-
1. Cut one piece of paper a little bit wider than the tin’s width, long enough to cover two of the sides of the tin.
2. Cut a second piece of paper, a little bit longer than the tin but, again , a bit longer to allow for the sides. If your tin is square this will be exactly the same size as (1)!
3. Push the two pieces of paper into the tin, so the base of the tin has two layers of paper over it but each side of the tin has just one. Done!
If your tin is round:-
1. Using the base of the tin as your guide, cut a circle of paper to fit the bottom of the tin. Put this circle of paper to one side for now.
2. For the sides, cut a long rectangular piece of paper. The width of the rectangle needs to be 2 centimetres deeper than the tin. See the picture. If the tin is 10 centimetres deep, your rectangle of paper needs to be 12 centimetres wide.
3. Fold your rectangle of paper back length ways. See the picture. Snip at the folded section every 2 centimetres to make ‘teeth’ in the paper.
4. Fit this around the edges of your tin, putting the teeth at the bottom. Does it go all the way round? If not, cut another rectangle of paper exactly the same way as before, again cutting ‘teeth along the bottom. This should fill the gap.
5. Put the circle of paper you made earlier into the bottom of the tin, covering up the ‘teeth.’
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