Asked on 27 Oct 2016 by Terry
My daughter has asked me to make a carrot cake for her wedding cake and I would like to upscale/downscale the Ultimate Carrot Cake recipe to make 6", 9" and 12" cakes. I have looked on line and found general guidance ie multiply/decrease ingredients by a certain factor, but can see that this general rule of thumb doesn't work for all cakes and wish that she had chosen a rich fruit cake as you have given all the adjusted ingredients/timings! I would be SO grateful if you could provide the upscaled/downscaled ingredients for the Ultimate Carrot Cake please as being a wedding cake I really want to get it right! Thank you very much indeed.
Hello,
I haven’t tested these but my best guess is
For the 6 inch – a 1 egg version of the recipe (or half the recipe).
For the 9 inch - a 3 egg version of the recipe (or 1.5 x the recipe)
For the 12 inch - a 6 egg version of the recipe (or 3 x the recipe)
I would still make each of these cakes as the recipe, baked in 2 tins.
Best wishes
Lindsey