I want to make the Black Cake in Nigella Lawson's How To Be A Domestic Goddess, but she says I have to line the tin with "a double thickness of brown paper"

I do realise this is some kind of paper to keep the cake from scorching but I have no idea where to get this, and very much doubt I will be able to find this anywhere in Denmark.

Does anyone know of a substitute? The cake is not cheap to make, so I'd rather not burn it

Thanks in advance and a very merry christmas to you all.

Parchment paper should work just as well. That's what I would try.

hi lomfise, brown paper is just paper we wrap parcels in, you can probably buy it at the stationary shop or post office, most of the christmas cake recipes in england have brown paper tied with string on the outside of the tin, hope this helps

If she's talikng about the inside of the tin, then it will be baking parchment. Outside the tin will be parcel packaging as laidbackluvvie said. You can, and I have, just use baking parchment again or newspaper.

I think it means line the inside of the tin with brown paper and then line that with baking parchment but you could just use more layers of baking parchment, or cover the outside of the tin with newspaper and the inside with baking parchment. If you wrap the tin in paper the oven temp must be kept very low to avoid it burning the paper or you could dampen the paper with water before filling the pan with mix.I use this technique with all of my fruit cakes and never had a problem.

Thank you all for your suggestions. I will give it a try

Merry christmas to all and a happy new year.

the brown paper she is referring to is probably brown parcel wrapping paper...l

like this the pic attached..

but the parchement paper should be fine.