What size cake tin needed for halve sized recipes?

If most receips call for an X sized baking tin what size would i need if i want to halve recipes? Im in UK (not sure if US have different sizes)


I want to start baking cakes but its only for me and a partner and baking a full sized cake would just be a waste as it would be too big and wouldnt get eaten!What size cake tin needed for halve sized recipes?
split halve and halveWhat size cake tin needed for halve sized recipes?
I'll guess you're talking about the round tins since we're onto cakes. Skipping the formulas, I'll briefly mention the amount of cake in your pan is based on the square of the radius [diameter of pan divided by two]. As strange as it may seem, a 9x2'; pan holds about twice the batter of the 6x2'.





You'll see a lot of references in the US to 9 inch or 8 inch round tins for the layered cakes.





A beautiful site for pan size conversions can be found on Baking911 on Bakeware Pan Sizes. It also gives measure for UK (cm): http://www.baking911.com/pantry/substitutes_pansizes.htm
if i'm doing something like that, i tend to make it full quantity once or twice to get an idea of the quantity. i wish there was an equation you could use! ha ha. most recipes i've found use a 7'; tin and they usually say when it isn't.





and hey, easy way of sorting this, just make a whole cake and freeze half of it!
surely what ever the size of the tin is say 8 inches, if you doing half the recipe wouldn't you need a four inch tin?