{"id":767174,"date":"2018-09-21T18:22:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/?p=767174"},"modified":"2022-03-21T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:27:07","slug":"9x13-recipe-to-8x8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/article\/9x13-recipe-to-8x8\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Convert a 13×9 Recipe for an 8×8 Pan"},"content":{"rendered":"For the longest time, the 13x9 pan reigned supreme. It was the perfect vessel for a bubbly, cheesy, warming casserole, and using a large pan meant you could feed a small army. (Try these contest-winning recipes!<\/a>) Today, it's all about the 8x8: a baking dish designed for those of us cooking for one or two. Unfortunately, you have all those great casserole recipes in your collection! Never fear: we can scale back. It's surprisingly simple to learn how to convert a recipe from 9x13 to 8x8 \u2013 even if you're mathematically challenged!\r\n

Cut Your Recipe in Half<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nYou're really in luck when it comes to using an 8x8 pan<\/a>: it's almost exactly half the size of your larger casserole dish! A 13x9 pan measures 117 square inches of surface area, which will hold about 14 cups of food. The 8x8 pan's 64 inches of surface area can contain up to 8 cups. And, because there won't be a major difference in surface area or batter depth when you pack your halved recipe into the smaller baking dish, you won't even need to adjust the oven temperature or the cooking time. Just cut all of the ingredients in your recipe in half. It's almost too perfect!\r\n

What About Ingredients That You Can't Halve?<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nThere are some ingredients that are pretty difficult to cut in half (like a whole egg, for example). In this case, you can just use the entire egg. When you consider that there are about 8 cups of other ingredients in a savory casserole, the extra tablespoon or two of liquid from the egg won't make that much of a difference. If you're halving a baking recipe, on the other hand, you'd want to weigh your ingredients like the pros<\/a> and use exactly half of everything.\r\n

Using Your Leftovers<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nIf you can't fathom the thought of doing all that math, never fear: casseroles are notoriously easy to store! You can split the original recipe between two 8x8 dishes and freeze an entire pan for later. Or, bake your recipe in the original 13x9 and cut out individual portions. Freeze them in airtight containers or freezer bags<\/a> and they'll be ready to thaw and pop in the microwave for a perfectly pre-portioned lunch.\r\n\r\nNow that you know how to convert a recipe from 13x9 to 8x8, try it out on some of our favorite casserole recipes<\/a>! Or, skip the conversions altogether and just follow the instructions for these 45 casserole recipes made in an 8x8 dish<\/a>.\r\n\r\n\t\t\t
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