I have not heard of these strips, and they aid in cakes not browning too quickly? Where would one purchase them?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of carollablady Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 6:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CnD] Cakes rising higher in the middle. Well the story helps me feel a little better. I have gone to making cakes in a tube (bundt) pan because of the really puffed up middles for 9x13. They work better, but there are occasions when the tube cakes are not preferable. I will look into the strips. Would it work to set the pan inside another pan? Would it be good or bad to put water in the outer pan? Thanks. Carol On 11/18/2011 7:14 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, Carol, > Often, a cake will rise higher in the middle than on the sides. If > you are looking to get a perfectly flat, level cake, it may not be > possible. But, one solution is, strips that you soak in water and put > around the outside of a pan. They insulate the pan and allow the cake > to rise more evenly. The strips can be gotten at a kitchen store, or > a baking supply store. Some cakes cook better in a tube pan; you may > want to try that as well and see if that gives more satisfactory > results. Here is a cake baking story for you which may make you feel > better. My family had a favorite spice cake which we made every year > for my father's birthday. The cake would often come out flat, or sink a little in the middle. One year, I played with the ingredients a little, adding a little more baking soda, and an extra egg, hoping to make it rise better. The opposite happened. Both layers came out looking like some one had sat in the middle of each one. The sides rose and the middle sank. We propped it up with a soup bowl in the middle to level it out. The cake itself tasted delicious; the texture was fine! We abandoned that recipe after that and haven't made it since. I think it is one of those cakes that might want a tube pan. Hope this helps. Blessings, Alice _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
