Need baking pan advice
I'm making a recipe from GBBO Season 2. It's the "berry crumble traybake," and it calls for a 26cm x 20 cm (10 1/2in x 8 inch) pan. Never heard of that size pan. Per Joy of Baking, 10x10x2 (which I don't have) is 12 cups and 11x7 (which I do have) is 6 cups. I would love to double the recipe, but I can't go larger than my roughly 13x9 springform lasagna pan (14 cups). Thoughts? Thanks!
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Use one of various charts on baking pan volume (link below) to decide which pan(s) to use if you don't have the pan specified in the recipe.
Then, if you don't find the pan in the charts, use some geometry and a conversion factor on the web to figure the volume of the pan.
In this case, 26 x 20 x 2 (probable height in cm of original pan) gives 1040 cubic centimeters. That's 4.4 US cups. If you want to double the recipe, use any combination that gives you about 9 cups.
https://recipeland.com/how-to/baking-pan-dish-volume-guide-332
Good luck and let us know how it works out...
Found on Lakeland (a British housewares company) a pan almost exactly the same size as GBBO specified - this one 25 by 20 - but it had a 3.5 cm height (nearly double the 2cm I estimated). Here's the pan:
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/70161/Lakeland-Brownie-Traybake-Tin
That would change the capacity needed for original recipe to 1820 cu cm or 7.7 cups.
Thus, you would need to bake twice in an 8 cup pan or use a 16 cup pan (hard to use in most home ovens and get both center and sides cooked through).
Hope this additional info comes to you in time.