NewBaker65
Assistant Cook
Hi All...
Trying to figure out what went wrong, as the name states I'm new to baking. Pizza and breads have come out great for years but there's not much too them, cake baking seems a bit more tricky.
So I tried a Pound Cake - wife loves them and I went old school with all ingredients being even and it came out perfect! She thought she'd like it a bit denser so I tried a recipe she found and it came out awful! Outside cooked to what appeared normal but it was a shell and collapsed soon after taking it out and I mean a SHELL, the entire inside was much like oatmeal, and had formed maybe a 1/4 inch shell all around it.
Same process, ingredients, cook times, oven, temp, I measure all with a scale, same pan...the only variable was changing 3 of the main ingredients.
First one that was perfect in every way...
110 grams of each - Flour, Eggs, Butter & Sugar. Added a tsp of vanilla and baking soda. 325 for 30 min. Came out amazing.
Second one...
The only change here was upping the Flour and the Sugar to 200 grams & the Butter to 160 grams which created oatmeal in a shell.
Trying to figure out what went wrong, as the name states I'm new to baking. Pizza and breads have come out great for years but there's not much too them, cake baking seems a bit more tricky.
So I tried a Pound Cake - wife loves them and I went old school with all ingredients being even and it came out perfect! She thought she'd like it a bit denser so I tried a recipe she found and it came out awful! Outside cooked to what appeared normal but it was a shell and collapsed soon after taking it out and I mean a SHELL, the entire inside was much like oatmeal, and had formed maybe a 1/4 inch shell all around it.
Same process, ingredients, cook times, oven, temp, I measure all with a scale, same pan...the only variable was changing 3 of the main ingredients.
First one that was perfect in every way...
110 grams of each - Flour, Eggs, Butter & Sugar. Added a tsp of vanilla and baking soda. 325 for 30 min. Came out amazing.
Second one...
The only change here was upping the Flour and the Sugar to 200 grams & the Butter to 160 grams which created oatmeal in a shell.