Marble Cake Too Dry

Your cake is too dry.

Marble cake too dry. If you find your cake is a little dry an easy fix is to brush syrup over the top of the cake. I am in az at around 1200 ft above sea level and i reduced the oven temp to 340f i usually bake at 325f and my 2 8 rounds were done at 24 min. Here s what you can do to fix the problem after the cake is out of the oven. Using the wrong ingredients making mistakes while mixing the batter or baking the cake too long or at too high a temperature.

Sometimes despite your best efforts a cake turns out dry. This is probably one of the biggest cake sins out there. A second and equally damaging culprit is over baking. But these cakes are not a lost cause.

However it is unique in that the eggs are then added one at a time before the reminder of the wet ingredients are slowly poured in. Spray or lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans. The ratio of wet to dry ingredients determines a cake s moisture level. Very light and fluffy not too sweet and no bitterness like some other marble cake recipes i ve tried recently.

This cake was just what i wanted reading the other reviews beforehand too dense i simply reversed the order in which i mixed the ingredients. A dry cake is usually the result of one of the following pitfalls. First i mixed the sugar and butter until fluffy then added the eggs 1by1 then having put all the dry ingredients together beforehand i added a little at a time alternating with the milk. The mixing method for this marble cake is most similar to the reverse creaming method of mixing that we have used in several of our recipes in that the dry ingredients are combined before the butter is mixed in.

Everyone loves rich moist cake psst chocolate lovers take note of these decadent chocolate desserts but sometimes we fail in getting that lush texture. Brush on a simple syrup. To prevent a dry cake be sure that your oven temperature is correct and that you aren t overbaking the cake. Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c.

Once you understand how to avoid the common cake baking blunders you ll bake a moist cake every time. How to fix dry cake after its baked. Finding the right balance between wet and dry ingredients is key. If there s simply too much flour and not enough butter a cake will taste dry.

The culprits for dry cake are ingredients that absorb moisture such as flour or other starches cocoa or any milk solids.