It's taken me 30 years to learn how to line a cake tin properly. It's not that I'm not a good baker - my friends and family would say I am - it's just there are some things that real experts naturally ...

- Cut a circular piece of baking parchment the size of the base of the tin. - Cut a strip of parchment long enough to wrap round the inside wall of the tin, with some overlap, and slightly taller than ...