Shane Smith

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1,299 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 15 Sep

Shane Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Claire Byrne Show · You can be a star baker! · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

If you put loads of mix into a an eight inch tin, if um the mix has nowhere to go, it dumbs and peaks at the top and cracks.

Excuse me.

So drink of water here.

Your tin is too small.

That's what Marzipan and decorations are for.

You can put that on top.

But if your tin is a little bit on the smaller side than 100%, you need to um factor that in.

So ensure that if you're following a recipe for an 8-inch or a 10-inch that you're using the right size tin.

And also placement in the oven is really important for Christmas cakes because we're baking them for such a long period of time.

Um if you have them up higher in the oven, then they'll tend to burn or crack on top.

So I generally would always bake a long cake.

cake like a Christmas cake um down the middle or the lower part of my oven and it will brown over time because of the amount of sugar that's in there as well.

But definitely placement in the oven for a Christmas cake is important.

Um under-mixing your pavlova can cause it to collapse as well.

So the mixing of the pavilova is or any meringue is really important.

So if you're getting all of that lovely air, but you definitely want to be mixing it for the guts of maybe 10-15 minutes in your mixer and to get A, to give the sugar time to dissolve, because that's what happens when sometimes you make a pavalova and you open the door and you see a weeping of sugar around it.

The sugar hasn't dissolved in the egg whites before we've baked it.

So a good long mix and then

Then oven temperature is key.

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