Baking Basics

Lining a cake tin

Place the tin on greaseproof paper and draw round it with a pencil.
Cut just inside the pencil mark with scissors.
Cut a strip of paper long enough to go round the tin plus an overlap of about 2.5 cm (1 inch) and about 5 cm (2 inches) deeper than the tin. Lay the strip flat on the table and turn up the overlap and crease. Snip diagonally to the fold.
Brush inside the tin with oil, using a pastry brush.
Insert strip so that the snipped part lies flat on the base.
Put the circle in place and lightly brush over the paper on the base and sides with oil.