I love this tool. How It Works. I’m trying to reduce a cake from a round 12″ to 9″. @Dolce You just type in your details in all the fields and your new recipe amounts are displayed automatically at the end. @eyejs – yes we are working on the CakeOmeter app right now – it promises to be another fantastic one! I’d like to know whether it works for other shaped tins apart from round and square. Hopefully better luck next time. Normally for 300gms of each ingredient I bake 0n 180 for approx 25 mins. Thank you soooo much would love an ap to download! Maybe you’ve seen a recipe but wanted to make it on a smaller or larger scale? Notes on the converter . Both online tools (here on your site) get a 10 out of 10! Reply. I’m probably being pedantic but it’s just simple maths. I’m afraid that we haven’t been able to cover all tin shapes, as most recipes cater for a square or round tin. I’m about to use a recipe that calls for a cake tin of 20cm but doesn’t specify the depth. Whats Happening i am new to this, I stumbled upon this I have found It absolutely helpful and it has aided me out loads. Choose the type of pan you are converting from and converting to (round or square/rectangle). I don’t see submit or anything to hit?? If you do want to bake using a different shape, you will have to make an approximation. I am a professional cake maker and this is wonderful for converting obscure recipes to larger or smaller tins. Is this right please? If you want to be precise, then put the egg in a bowl, weigh it, then beat it with a whisk or fork to combine and then remove some based on the weight. X by all ingredients but one? can you do please do an app for this cakeometer- iPad version would be good so we can use it in the kitchen. Off to start my twin daughters three tier game of thrones 18th birthday cake, using the tins I already had thus saving myself cash on buying new ones. What we can tell you is that we’re hoping to include a cooking time convertor in the cakeOmeter app when it’s out. The measurements it gives doesn’t add up. this seems so easy – thanks – when I got my quantities, converting from small round to large square amounts seemed enormous then noticed original rounds were for two separate cakes so just halved the amounts given – haven’t tried yet but seems to be about right. Re Cakeo’meter Is it possible to have a similar calculator for adjusting temperatures/cooking times . So, you don’t own the correct sized tin for your recipe? Learn the 5 essential cake decorating skills in my FREE mini-course. I got round the waste issues by only printing page 2, but that’s not totally acceptable as you lose some details. I’m hoping to give a contribution & aid other customers like its helped me. With this Cake Pan Conversion Calculator you’re able to convert the quantities of ingredients in no time. Hi Brian, we are currently concentrating on our website – It is possible that we will make more Android Apps but not anytime soon. Great site thank you. Hi…I was trying to figure out how much time it took to convert a coconut cake recipe into cupcakes and it did not work for me. If your baking tin is not the size that the recipe you want to use suggests, then you will have to change the ingredient amounts accordingly. Just did this for the cappucino tray bake recipe – works a treat! However the most important part was the cooking TIME , but there was no mention of how long to cook the cake ! FREE SHIPPING IN AUSTRALIA for all orders over $80. This calculator includes recipes from Sharon’s books, Adorable Cakes for all Occasions and Playful Party Cakes, which you can purchase along with other cake decorating tutorials from our store. You want to make the cake in your larger 9 inches cake pan. Agree with Rosy Posy, it would be great to either store on line or print off, I tried to copy and paste and it only saved the new ingredients. many thanks, Cooking times: I normally make my lemon drizzle cake in a 9″ by 2″ round baking tin, I cook it for 45-50 mins at 160. Now that’s a clever little App! what am I doing wrong? Thanks again, sure I will use this calculator a lot!! @Ginny – this is a question we’re often asked. I am now trying to convert from 2 sandwich tins as I don’t want to include a filling but want to make one large cake. The original recipe is for a 18cm round cake pan. I just converted a sponge recipe for a 17x27x7cm “square” that I use regularly to a 35cmx7cm round and the result was too small by almost half. Multiply the ingredients in the original recipe with 0.77. I think this calculator will be fantastic for allowing me to scale up a Christmas cake recipe to 3 tiers for a wedding cake. For those only getting half of your recipe check that you have entered the quantities as a decimal (eg 2.5 cups) not a fraction (2 1/2 cups) I had the same thing and when I changed to decimal it listed them all. Let us know if it continues acting strangely for you. I entered all my info and tried hitting enter. However, like many of your previous customers, I am wondering whether you just round up or down the fractions of grammes, teaspoons , mls and whole eggs to make it practical for weighing and measuring the new recipe ingredients? Am i doing something wrong . I only get 3 ingredients to change, what about the rest and the main such as the flour? The cake’o’meter is a free online tool, so you can use it here but can’t buy it I’m afaid! :o). Home > Online Tools > CakeOmeter: Convert Baking Tin Sizes. Regarding eggs, I have found it useful to tweek the height of the tin in the calculation table until it gives a reading for whole eggs eg. haha! My minds gone blank. Perhaps it could convert the original cup measure to grams, multiply by the scaling ratio and (possibly) convert back to cups as a fraction to the nearest 1/4 or 1/3 cup? It's there for you in a printable format from CakeFlix. THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH. I can’t seem to get this to convert for me, what am I doing wrong? Surely it is slightly more than half for a 9″ round? Am wanting to make my wedding cake and am stuck with out the new weight for my ingrdients. So easy to follow and ive chekced it and it’s right on the money. Other than the egg conversion – this is great! I am now using the same recipe for a 3 tier wedding cake … 12″, 9″ and 6″ and I have no idea how to calculate the times. Thank you for this! If you have any thoughts please leave them below…. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this tool!!! This tool sounds absolutely fantastic providing it is dummy proof (me being the dummy). I need to make the same cake but in a 12″ by 12″ by 3.5″ square tin How long will I need to cook it for and do I use the same oven Temperature? ✈️Worldwide shipping available, price calculated during checkout. Remember to adjust your cooking times a little to make allowance for new size. The new cooking time will be shown in the ‘New Cooking Time’ box. What depth should I assume the 20cm tin is? No more taxing conversions to do while I bake!! CakeOmeter: Convert Baking Tin Sizes Posted 01/09/2012 by Rebecca Cannon Introducing The CakeOmeter. About to cook a wedding cake consisting of all three tiers being the same recipe but am unsure re cooking times.e, Love this cake meter would love it if we had cooking time,can’t have everything, entered all required fields….all I got back was recipe is scaled at 3.8 times…what the??? Like everyone else I LOVE this!! Notes on the converter . Therefore, if I convert, will this then make 2 x the selected tin size? It seems that when I select “cup” as the measurement, it does not convert the ingredient. Flat rate $8.25 for Australian orders under $80. This will stop that happening again… Thanks. I’ like to buy the cake o metre but how do I do it? : ), i’ve got it! I saw a comment about turning the cake halfway thru the normal cooking cycle however as far as I know one cannot open the oven during te cake cooking process ..hence I still don’t know how long to cook this chocolate cake ! I don’t understand the conversion. My conversion is saying ‘Infinity gram’ what does that mean please? Once entered simply select the new size you want and bingo! If the cake is half the size, the cooking time will be just over half of the original time etc. Or even 2.3 tsp. Let me know if I did something wrong. It converted them to 351.6g, so the conversion part looks right but little bit anxious there is something wrong with the calulator. When you next update your Cakeometer app, please can you allow for metric cake tin sizes like you do on this site, and let users add their own custom cake tin sizes? Let's begin with some examples - if you want to bake a 12" round cake but the recipe is only enough for an 8" round cake, you'd simply multiply the quantities in your recipe 2.5 times. What happened to this app? 5″ square cake tin means the length (L) is 5 Area of square = L 2 5 x 5 = 25 square inches We now need to find the diameter of the round cake tin i.e. Without knowing what your temperatures, recipe ingredients and over temp are we cannot say. My suggestion would be to have the option to save your recipe conversions – I’ve been making the same cakes in all sorts of different sizes and it would be great not to have to type in all the ingredients again and again. I only made it easier by combining everything in an Excel document so all we need to do is to 1) choose the type of pan you are converting from and converting to and 2) key in the cake pans’ measurem… Thanks, Elisa. Conversion factor = 1.61 Multiply the ingredients in the original recipe with 1.61. what does 3.3 pcs of eggs mean? It never EVER lets me down =) Thank you. Hi there found this brilliant for my needs, my sister wants me to make her wedding cake as its going to be a 4 tier this has worked a treat but I was wondering if you could help me with the cooking times aswell as im not to sure about that if possible I recently did a 6″ x 6″ x 3″ trial of madeira cake and that took around 1hr 50mins at gas mark 4 im going to be doing a 8×8 10×10 and 12×12 if you could help me with this I would be so grateful thank you.