Asked on 21 Feb 2020 by Roger
Dear Lindsey,
I have the task of making cake for my wife's 60th birthday - 60 guests. I'm not an experienced baker so this may be daft but I was thinking about making 6 loaf-tin cakes to construct an L and an X (60 in Roman numerals) and wondered if the Chocolate Souffle cake would be suitable for this. How would I adjust ingredients, cooking time and temperarure for the different tin?
Thanks
Roger
Hello Roger,
I don’t think that’s daft at all. I think your wife is very lucky to have such a thoughtful, caring husband.
I think your idea is doable. Perhaps you’ll need 7 cakes and use 2 of them to do the vertical part of ‘L’??
The chocolate soufflé cake is quite shallow (about 4 cm). Are you intending to arrange the cakes in the LX format and dust them with cocoa and decorate with candles (& perhaps some flowers)? Or are you planning something else in the way of presentation.
If you want to make the loaf tin cakes so the come out as they would if made in 8 inch round tins I would do 2 loaf tins per (4 egg) recipe and I think they will take about 20 minutes to bake. If your making 2 loaves at a time.
You will need to line the tins and I would cool them completely (perhaps even chill them in the fridge to firm them up) before you remove them from the tins as this is quite a fragile mixture and presumably your loaf tins do not have loose bases.
This recipe does freeze very well if you want to get ahead.
Best wishes
Lindsey