Pie are square?

18 years ago

I volunteered to make 2 carrot cakes for the Saturday night Bar Mitzvah party for my twin grand sons at the house. There will be a dinner at a restraunt before services Friday night, the Bar Mitzvah and then a lunch/brunch at a different place after the service, and then cocktails and dinner for 125 at Stew and Robins....and a swim party for all the kids (and grandparents and aunts and uncles) at a day camp facility, with a catered cookout sort of lunch.

Robin asked me if I would make a couple of carrot cakes for the sweets table for Saturday night.

My carrot cake recipe is round, and I think a square cake would be easier for the occasion.

So what I want to know is, could I bake the cake as is in 2 8 inch square pans?...I know adjust for baking time....but I am trying to figure out the difference in area of a 9 inch round pan and an 8 inch square pan.

Here's the recipe:

Carrot cake Julie TÂs

3 eggs

3/4 cup vegetable oil

3/4 cup buttermilk

2 cups sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

3/4 teaspoon salt

2 tsps cinnamon

1 8 oz can crushed pineapple, drained

2 cups grated carrots

1/2 cup raisins chopped with 1 Tablespoon of flour

Buttermilk glaze

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/4 cup buttermilk

1/4 cup butter

1 Tblsp light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

Orange Cream Cheese Frosting

1/2 cup softened butter

4 oz softened cream cheese

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp orange juice

1 tsp grated orange rind

Preheat oven to 350

With a mixer Beat eggs, add oil and buttermilk, sugar and vanilla. beat to combine. Stir together flour, salt, cinnamon and baking powder and stir into batter. stir in pineapple, carrots and raisins.

Pour into a greased 8 by 13 pan or 2 greased round 9 inch cake pans. Bake 35 to 45 minutes until set in the middle. Remove from the oven and immediatly spread with the buttermilk glaze. Cool completely and frost with the cream cheese frosting.

Buttermilk glaze:

In a medium sauce pan ( don't use a small pan) combine all ingredients but vanilla. Bring to a boil and cook 3 minutes stirring often...it will bubble a lot. It should be a light caramel color, stir in vanilla and pour over the cake

Cream cheese frosting:

Beat cream cheese and butter until light add vanilla powd. sugar and juice and rind...beat until smooth and frost the cooled cake.

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Comments (11)

Cloud Swift
18 years ago
By my calculation, an 8" square pan is almost identical in area to a 9" round cake pan.

The area of a 9" circle, Pi r squared = 3.14159 * 4.5 * 4.5 is a bit more than 63 and a half square inches. The 8" square is 64 inches. That's much less difference than between the two pans the recipe mentions - two 9" rounds are about 127 inches and an 8 by 13 is 104. Sloping sides on the pans may make the real volume a bit more different but it should still be very close - you probably don't even have to adjust the time.
lakeguy35
18 years ago
I agree with cloud swift, you should be okay with the 8" pans. They would be more like bars and easier to manage if this is a roam around type event. If you want it more like a cake I would double the recipe and use two 9 x 13 inch pans. Again, easier to manage and transport than a stacked round cake IMO.

I'm adding a very late Happy Birthday to you too Linda! Life has been crazy for me and I missed it.....this scotch is on me...clink!

David
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Marigene
18 years ago
Easy.....check to see how many cups each holds.
lyndaluu2
18 years ago
Why not make cupcakes??

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lindac
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18 years ago
I will make4 square cakes than...stack them...so I will have 2 eight in square cakes.
These have to be transported 300+ miles on Thursday for dessert on Saturday. Iw ill make them tomorrow and wrap and freeze, transport frozen and ice...sometime...not sure just when there will be half an hour!
Don't want to make cup cakes, too hard to pack, store and transport. I wanted to make 2 8 by 13 and stack, but this will be easier to handle.
And Marigene, it's not volume I am worried about but area!
I was getting very similar results, but being math challanged I was doubting myself.
Thanks!And thanks Lakeguy....I may take a rain check on that Scotch until after this event is over...but I imagine there will be a bit on tap at the event!!
gellchom
18 years ago
Mazal tov -- times two! -- to the whole family.
Cloud Swift
18 years ago
Mazel tov!

With two 8 by 8 cakes, there can be one for each grandson. And two servers can cut them without getting in each other's way.

There are always some people who want "just a tiny sliver" - a cake lets you cut small pieces for those who ask.
lindac
Original Author
18 years ago
Thanks Gell...seems like just yesterday I was cooking stuff for the bris!
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grainlady_ks
18 years ago
Perhaps the link to the site below will be helpful for Pan Sizes and equilivants. It's volume for volume, so measure the volume of the pans with water, or dried beans if it's a springform pan, to find a substitute.

I make a small carrot cake torte out of a 9-inch square pan. Cut the cooled cake into 4 pieces stacked and frosted. It has a nicer presentation as 4 layers than a single or double layer.

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"Pie are square"? LOL

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