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Cake tin converter

20cm round tin to 15cm round tin

Multiply every ingredient by

×0.56

A 15cm round tin (6in) has 44% less area than a 20cm round tin (8in). Same depth of cake, less mixture.

In the recipeFor your tin
100g56g
250g141g
3 eggs1.7 eggs

Paste your recipe into the scaler, already set to ×0.56. It rounds everything sensibly and tells you what to do with part of an egg.

The working

20cm round tin: 314.16cm² of base. 15cm round tin: 176.71cm². 176.71 ÷ 314.16 = 0.56. This assumes both tins are the same depth.

Other tins from a 20cm round

Use the converter for any size, including rectangular tins.