Easy cake recipe

It was described in the book as an easy cake recipe but it’s all gone wrong! The butter was too hard, the batter was runny and your cake is burnt at the edges and sunken in the middle.

Don’t be downhearted – even experienced and well established cake makers have the odd miss hap; and as we’re mentioning this, homemade cakes aren’t all about visual aesthetics anyway. It’s worth bearing in mind that a cake doesn’t have to look aesthetically please for it to taste delicious. If you do make a mistake in creating your cake, you don’t have to waste it – retrieve any edible bits and freeze them (you can use later in the bottom of a trifle or tiramisu) and then let your dog eat the rest.

On this part of the article you will learn some basic but valuable tips which will help perfect your easy cake recipe baking skills which will make both you, and your dog; more consistently delighted with your cake creations.

Preparing the baking tin. Rub the inside of the tin generously with butter, margarine or lard (if you buy this in wrappers instead of tubs, save these in the fridge and you can use them for greasing). Easy Cake Recipes often will ask you to line the tin with grease proof paper or you could just use aluminium foil, as its a bit easier to use, especially for the corners. when a round tin is being used, lining it can be awkward but you are able to buy precut shapes to make this easier. For fruit cakes use double-thickness lining and cover the top with paper as well this can benefit in ways to prevent the burning of the cakes surface.

Easy Cake Recipe Measuring. Never disregard the advice given on any cake recipe book. You can change the amounts if you want to make a bigger or smaller cake but remember to change all the quantities equally. Bare in mind that your cooking times will alter when using different volumes of batter.

Have ingredients at room temperature, the butter especially (you need immense elbow grease if you try beating it straight from the fridge).

When adding flour into batter, sift it, holding the sieve about 10cm/4in above the mixing bowl; by doing this cake making technique, you can reduce your air or lumps that can go into the mix.

Dropping consistency. This simply means, By scooping up the batter by tipping your spoon when pouring it out, and you’ll find the mixture to drop off slowly. However, don’t panic if the batter doesn’t move as you’d expect. Just thin it by adding a few drops of milk. Too runny? All you need to do is sift with flour.

Testing for ‘done ness’. Do not presume the cooking times from the recipe are accurate. Check regularly from 10 – 15 minutes of the end by probing the centre of the cake with a knife, proceeding well inside the mixture. It’s done if it comes out clean, If the knife comes out looking moist (soggy) then give it 5 more minutes.

Decorating the cake. Be certain to allow your cake to cool down before applying icing. Make your easy cake recipe even easier by by omitting the frosting/icing and dust the top with icing (powdered) sugar instead.

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