Cake baking tips and tricks
Don't we all want to bake the perfect cake? Well, I am here to tell you that you can!
Let's begin with the age-old question, how do I make my cake moist and fluffy?
There is a process known as creaming. Creaming is when you whisk your butter and sugar together with an electric mixer. This is one essential tip to creating moist and fluffy cakes. When you do this, make sure you whisk together the butter and sugar until it turns a pale yellow color.
If you want to create more moisture for your cake, try adding two additional egg yolks to your recipe.
Basic cake baking tips:
Make sure your butter and eggs are at room temperature.
Read through the entire recipe before you begin baking.
Get all of your ingredients out and measured before starting to bake your cake.
Measure your ingredients precisely.
Keep the oven door closed while baking your cake.
Intermediate cake baking tips:
Do not substitute ingredients. Stick to the recipe and measure correctly.
Avoid crumbs in your icing by freezing the cake for an hour before icing.
Dry cake? Pulse in a food processor, add icing, and turn it into cake balls...no waste! Coat with melted chocolate.
Try farm-fresh eggs.
Cracked cake? Cover with chocolate ganache.
Advanced cake baking tips:
No buttermilk? If your recipe calls for 1 cup of milk, use 3/4 cup of milk and 1/4 cup lemon juice. Now, you have buttermilk.
For a special flavor, remove vanilla extract and use almond extract in your vanilla cake recipe.
Ran out of cake flour? For each cup of flour, the recipe calls for, take out 2 Tablespoons of flour and replace it with cornstarch.
Do not pack your flour into the measuring cup. You will add too much to the recipe.
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