I have just received a pirate ship cake case for my sons birthday. Any tips from bakers out there and how to work out how much mixture to make to fill the case??

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One solution would be to fill it with water and pour this into your regular cake form. This should give you an idea of how much cake mix to use.

I hope you will post a picture of the finished product, I dont think Ive seen a pirate cake before.

Yup, this is exactly what I would do.

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Just found this site and thought it might be useful to you. I'm no good at "cups"... I can do pounds and ounces or grams and kilos easily but no idea what a "cup" is


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What about just making a double mixture (or a recipe you know is big) pour in what you need for the pirate cake, then use the remaining batter to make a reward for yourelf . I have a small cake form (a teddybear shape from my Mum in law) for exactly that purpose.

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one cup is 8 fluid oz or about 240mL. HTH. (in US 2 cups make a pint but as you can see this is short of an imperial pint... ooh, now I want a beer but it's a bit early in the morning... )

These molds can be a bit tricky as I found out. A good dose of non stick spray helps..I have a castle one that I use for my daughters birthday, dont know if it is the same company I got my castle from but the recipie I got with the castle was rubbish, the whole thing overflowed and the cake itself wasnt that nice. In the end, and much experimentation I found a white chocolate mud cake recipie that worked a treat. I found it worked better if you put the mold on a baking tray as well, seems to stop excessive browning. Best advice if you havent used these silicone molds is to make a trail run before hand and make the final one the night before..save you a lot of tears.

If you are talking about fluids then the calculation for cups into metric is:

1 cup x 0.24

example: 3 cups water = 0.72 liter or 720ml

And here's a conversion table from cups, sticks, ounces, fahrenheit etc to metric - on my blog.

Feel free to ask if you need a translation, but the figures should be clear.



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