Chef Giu Giunti gives tips on how to succeed when making that delicious cake!
I am a huge cake lover and love venturing into pastry making. Although it is not my specialty, I have accumulated knowledge over the years and discovered in practice what works.
Every week at my house I bake a new cake, the children love it and are super happy. I confess that I don’t prepare it just for them, because I love my mid-afternoon coffee with a slice of warm cake. I bet you love it too. It’s a shame that we discovered too late that hot cake isn’t bad, our mothers and grandmothers said so so as not to eat it all at once…
Returning to the topic of today’s advice, let’s talk about the success of the recipes.
Using measurements
It’s essential to have a more standard measuring device at home and avoid using cups and mugs to measure recipes. This will ensure you always use the same quantities, bringing more standards to your recipe.
Avoid tampering with the recipe
I always get messages like “look, I had a cup of sugar so the cake wasn’t so sweet”. Reducing the quantities of just one ingredient without changing the proportions can drastically affect the final result. Sugar, for example, in addition to sweetening recipes, plays a fundamental role in bringing moisture to the dough. Reducing the quantity makes the cake work, but it tends to be drier and more crumbly. If you plan to change the quantities, do so proportionally.
Cake is not bread!
Although they are made with wheat flour, eggs, milk, the preparation method must be cautious. Making a cake basically involves mixing the ingredients evenly without kneading. When we beat the cake dough in the mixer a lot, the dough tends to become gummy and heavy.
Added yeast, oven!
Avoid letting the dough rest after preparing it. Some baking powders begin to work as soon as they are added to the recipe. To ensure that the structure is perfect and does not wilt, cook it. Oh, don’t overdo the quantities either, too much yeast will cause the cake to deflate after baking.
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