Re: help! cake inside looks like pudding!On Sat 10 May 2008 09:02:57a, sf told us...
> On Sat, 10 May 2008 05:27:33 -0700 (PDT), s <ymailus@yahoo . com > wrote:
>
>>Hi there,i am having a problem with a mushy 2" high carrot cake.
>>after 1.5 hrs baking at 180C the inside looks like a pudding instead
>>of the expected baked cake texture.the outside is almost burnt.
>>
>>i used a 1' wide deep ceramic pan (without a hole) and stuck to the
>>recipie (100g carrots,2 banana,50g raisins,225g flour,1 tps baking
>>powder,150 brown sugar,walnuts 50g,150g oil & 2 eggs)
>>
>>any ideas what i can try to improve the texture? thanks
>
> My own carrot cake takes about 50 minutes. Here's a carrot cake
> recipe online for you to compare your recipe with.
> * w w w .joyofbaking . com /CarrotCake.html
>
> BTW: Your addition of banana sounds very interesting. Care to post
> the recipe or a link to it here? We'll make the conversions ourselves
> if the site doesn't do it for us.
>
> In any case, it sounds like your oven needs fixing... most likely it's
> the thermostat. I had a problem once where it just didn't kick in
> when it should have and all of my baking was ruined until the
> repairman figured out my problem.
>
> In the mean time, here's a yummy cake recipe that's *supposed* to be
> liquid in the middle!
> * w w w .joyofbaking . com /MoltenChocolateCakes.html
>
>:)
>
Jumping in here with another question... Nearly every time I try to bake a
banana cake (even sometimes banana bread), I have the same problem with the
interior being never quite done when the rest of the cake is. It's usually
gooey. I have particularly used recipes that call for an actual cup
measure of mashed banana instead of those that call for a quantity of
bananas in order to make sure that the ratio of ingredients was accurate.
Gads, bananas can be all over the place in size. Anyway, I usually have
problem making baked goods that turn out perfectly, so what's the problem
with banana?
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Wayne Boatwright
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