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My wife purchase some circular cake pans. Two pans came in a box. The smaller cake pan is 11" dia. x 3" deep. The larger cake pan is 15" dia. x 3" deep. The box says to allow 80-85 minutes in the oven to bake a cake in the 11" pan, but to allow only 75-80 minutes in the 15" pan. Is this a typo, or is there some kind of scientific reason (that is obscure to me) that a cake will bake faster in a larger pan?
Re: Why does a cake take longer to bake in a smaller cake pan?
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