Take it out and place it on a wire rack to cool for 20 or 15minutes. If not, give it an extra 5 min and check. Give the pan a gentle nudge to check its set or insert a thin skewer in the centre, if it comes out clean you are done. You want to give time for the baking powder to act and rise the cake before the batter sets.ĭO NOT PEAK IN THE OVEN! For the first 30min of baking don’t open the oven please! Those 30min are critical for it to set properly, and opening that door oven is just inviting disaster! Open after 35min the top should be set & golden. The cake is baked in a medium low oven at 180 C or 160 C convection oven. If you split between 2 tins (to make layers for example) then you want to get to quarter the tin height. If you are using one cake tin for all your batter then make sure not to go higher than half the side height. Gently spoon in the batter and lightly smooth the surface of your cake with a rubber spatula.In the pic below I’m lining with cornmeal for the cornmeal cake. Dust the sides and base if you like with flour for white cakes & cocoa powder for chocolate cakes (however I don’t like to do this anymore as sometimes you find spots on the sides of your cakes).Brush the tin base & sides with oil and line the base with grease proof paper.Choose a cake tin with high sides & a movable base.You want to get your cake into the oven as soon as you’re done mixing so you don’t wind up losing the power of the baking powder! You also want the cake to come out easily & not stick so have your cake tin ready before you even start making your cake! There are other methods to mix your cake batter which I will post later after I test them 🙂 If your eggs do separate from the batter (liquid floating around a bumpy batter) just add a little flour in and beat so it absorbs the extra liquid. And don’t overbeat so you don’t curdle the eggs or deflate the mixture. Too wet or too dry and you won’t get a good incorporation of the ingredients. You are just alternating wet and dry ingredients to maintain a stable batter. It sounds like a hassle but it isn’t really. Add the second half of your liquid and beat till combined and finish off with the last quarter of your flour.Įvery once in a while use a rubber spatula to lightly scrape the bottom of the mixing bowl to make sure nothing is lurking down there not being mixed or beaten in!Īgain you don’t want to overbeat! Just get the batter to the thick ribbon stage as below: Add another quarter of flour and beat till combined. Add the last third of the eggs and half your liquid and beat till combined. Another quarter of the flour and beat till combined. Add another third of the eggs and beat till combined.
Add a quarter of the flour then beat in till combined. Don’t over beat please!Īdd the eggs in slowly and in stages. I use the creaming method which goes like this:Ĭream butter with sugar till the colour lightens and sugar is fully mixed in with the fat. Cocoa powder gives a more chocolaty taste than melted chocolate!.You can sub cocoa powder for a portion of flour for a chocolate cake.Vs Ghee which I also use, which is 100% fat resulting in a more moist cake. Butter is not all fats! It’s about 80 to 85% only, the rest are milk solids & water.The cake recipe (above) weights and % are all aligned with Franks table above and the ratios discussed too!
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So for a butter cake, for a 25cm (10 inch) diameter cake tin using the following core ingredients (The full recipe will be in a separate post): So far I am still only using baking powder even for the orange cake and it works a treat. In addition to your beaten butter & eggs as the beating adds air to your cake batter. In a butter cake that is your baking powder, baking soda or both. Liquids dissolve the sugars so your liquid content must be at least equal to the sugar to make sure all that sugar is dissolved! Weight of liquids including egg weight = or > than sugar.Įggs emulsify and balance the fat. But too much will mean your cake won’t set properly!Įggs in weight without shell = or > than fat. Too much of either and you end up with a dry cake! They keep your cake standing and correct ratios means no sunken middle. Here’s the low down on what I’ve learned the past few days: This is not a recipe page either, I’m just laying out the key ratios, understandings and basics of making a butter (thick batter) cake.Īll it takes is to have a good electronic scale and a measuring jug.
Understanding butter cakes! This page is about butter cakes not sponges. The key difference is that these cakes have butter or ghee and a lot less liquid than a sponge cake.
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