Help Cake Tin Advice Needed.

[nellypope]

My three year old has commissioned a dinosaur cake for her birthday this Saturday, I have bought the relevant items, cake mix, dinosaur biscuit decoration (I'm a working mum, I do my best ;-) anyway, I have just read the instructions and the method asks for two cake tins (sadly I only have one cake tin of doom). So..... do I cook half the mixture (20mins) then turn the cake out, re-line tin to bake second half, OR do I bake it all at the same time (40 mins or so) then cut in half when cool. There is no time to purchase a second tin.

[mallyh]

i would do two bakes

[EcclesCake]

Be prepared for the second cake to not rise as well as the rising agent will have burnt itself out whilst sat around for cake 1 to bake.

[Ratty2E]

I would make the mix in 2 halves, as Eccles says cake mix doesn't like sitting around once it's made, and bake 2 separate cakes.

[nellypope]

ratty great idea, this was my concern, I seemed to remember way back in home economics that cake mix needs using quickly. Two halves, thanks people.

And wish me luck :-)