After making my mom birthday scones, I next made birthday cake. I chose a recipe for a homemade vanilla cake with ganache frosting that sounded decadent and delicious. However, things didn't exactly go as planned. As I mixed, stirred, and folded, all seemed well. I popped the pans into the oven, and 35 minutes later, I pulled them out. They seemed fine, despite having overflowed a little in the oven. Twenty minutes later though, the centers had sunk. I was disappointed, but since my Flour challenge had gone close to perfectly so far, I knew it was time for things to go a little wrong. I thought for a while about what to do and I ended up just filling the center hole with extra frosting. While the cake was dense, it was also moist, buttery, and chocolatey. We declared it much better than Duncan Hines!
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| The frosting filled hole. |
Is there a luckier mother than I? I am eating my night-after-birthday slice of cake. Scrumptious. Love you, Julia! Mom
ReplyDeletedid you figure out why it sunk in the middle? Just curious, since I'm not much of a baker... Was it the oven temperature, or was it a humid day?
ReplyDeleteI'm still not sure! I think it might have been from overfilling the pans, opening the oven too early, or baking the cakes for too short of a time. Hopefully the next cake won't sink!
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