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Default 8" vs. 9" cake pan


"Dee Randall" > wrote in message
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> Thanks. I assume you mean 5 minutes "more" for the 8".
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> I know the advice of shrinking from the side of the pan, and I try using

the
> toothpick test, too, but I always am "skittish" or "worried" about just

how
> much shrinkage -- just when it "begins" to shrink away?
>
> Signed,
> a worry wort


Yes. The cake will just start to shrink from the pan. Don't worry too much.
A couple of minutes too long isn't as bad as a couple of minutes too little.