Home baking

Pan Swap & Recipe Scaler

You have a 9x13 but the recipe wants two 9-inch rounds. Here's exactly how much batter, how long to bake, and what the ingredients weigh.

Swap your pan

Multiply every ingredient by

1.84×

Your pan is larger — increase the recipe about 84%.

In the new pan, start checking at 4050 minutes. Keep the oven temperature the same, unless you switch to a much deeper pan — then drop it 25°F and bake longer.

Cups to grams

Weighing flour is the single easiest way to stop baking dry cakes.

2 cups of all-purpose flour240 g

That's about 8.47 oz. Spoon-and-level measuring assumed.

Oven quick reference

300°F

150°C

325°F

165°C

350°F

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375°F

190°C

400°F

205°C

425°F

220°C

450°F

230°C

475°F

245°C

Convection ovens: drop the temperature 25°F and check 5–10 minutes early.