When it comes to baking with a boxed mix, it’s not always easy.
Not letting ingredients come to room temperature can make cake dense.
Simply adding water and eggs can be a mistake too.
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When you’re craving a cupcake but don’t feel like schlepping to a bakery or rolling up your sleeves and making a cake batter from scratch, boxed cake mix can be a great substitute. Requiring only a mixing bowl, a cake pan, and a couple of supplemental ingredients, cake mix seems like such a simple solution to your dessert-related concerns.
But, in reality, baking a cake from a mix is a surprisingly easy process to mess up. INSIDER consulted with a group of professional bakers, and they clued us in to some of the biggest mistakes home bakers make with cake mix and offered tips on how to avoid these errors.
Incorrectly measuring your liquid ingredients interferes with your cake’s texture.
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Bring the measuring cup to eye level.
Contrary to popular belief, dry measuring cups and wet measuring cups really can’t be used interchangeably. In fact, executive pastry chef Amanda Rose of Desserts First in Castro Valley, California insisted that “the biggest mistake when using cake mix is to measure your liquids incorrectly. This will result in a dry cornbread-textured cake online.”
To nail your liquid-measuring technique every time, try this tip from Rose. Place your measuring cup at eye-level on a flat surface rather than looking at it from above.
“Many home bakers fill the measuring cups directly out of the faucet, which will lead to over- or under-measuring your liquids because you can’t hold [the measuring cup] completely level while doing this.”
Don’t use cold ingredients.
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Cold ingredients can cause your final product to be dense and dry.
It can be tempting to pull ingredients like eggs, butter, and milk out of the fridge and incorporate them into the cake mix right away, but that can be a mistake. When it comes to boxed cake mix, cold ingredients can cause your final product to be dense and dry. Giving them 30 minutes to warm up a bit, according to Real Simple, can make a huge difference.
You shouldn’t always trust the cooking times on the box.
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Stick it with a toothpick.
An inconvenient truth about baking is that oven temperatures can vary wildly between different models, different brands, and different appliance ages. Cake-mix boxes must put oven temperatures in their instructions, but whether or not you can actually use that exact temperature to get a correctly baked cake depends on how accurate your oven’s temperature is.
Executive pastry chef Jason Jimenez of The Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. warned that certain ovens can have “hot spots” or places where the temperature is uneven, which can result in inconsistently baked same day cakes delivery.
“The tried-and-true way to tell if your cake is ready is by inserting a toothpick into the center of the cake to check for doneness. If it comes out clean, then the cake is done for sure.
“I like to pull the cake delivery online in India from the oven when I see a tiny bit of batter on the end of the toothpick and just before it is completely done,” Jimenez said.”This may take some practice, but the residual heat will finish the baking process outside of the oven. This will ensure a moist yet fully baked cake.”
source - https://www.businessinsider.com.au/boxed-cake-mix-baking-mistakes-2019-6
Not letting ingredients come to room temperature can make cake dense.
Simply adding water and eggs can be a mistake too.
View INSIDER’s homepage for more stories.
When you’re craving a cupcake but don’t feel like schlepping to a bakery or rolling up your sleeves and making a cake batter from scratch, boxed cake mix can be a great substitute. Requiring only a mixing bowl, a cake pan, and a couple of supplemental ingredients, cake mix seems like such a simple solution to your dessert-related concerns.
But, in reality, baking a cake from a mix is a surprisingly easy process to mess up. INSIDER consulted with a group of professional bakers, and they clued us in to some of the biggest mistakes home bakers make with cake mix and offered tips on how to avoid these errors.
Incorrectly measuring your liquid ingredients interferes with your cake’s texture.
iStock
Bring the measuring cup to eye level.
Contrary to popular belief, dry measuring cups and wet measuring cups really can’t be used interchangeably. In fact, executive pastry chef Amanda Rose of Desserts First in Castro Valley, California insisted that “the biggest mistake when using cake mix is to measure your liquids incorrectly. This will result in a dry cornbread-textured cake online.”
To nail your liquid-measuring technique every time, try this tip from Rose. Place your measuring cup at eye-level on a flat surface rather than looking at it from above.
“Many home bakers fill the measuring cups directly out of the faucet, which will lead to over- or under-measuring your liquids because you can’t hold [the measuring cup] completely level while doing this.”
Don’t use cold ingredients.
Shutterstock
Cold ingredients can cause your final product to be dense and dry.
It can be tempting to pull ingredients like eggs, butter, and milk out of the fridge and incorporate them into the cake mix right away, but that can be a mistake. When it comes to boxed cake mix, cold ingredients can cause your final product to be dense and dry. Giving them 30 minutes to warm up a bit, according to Real Simple, can make a huge difference.
You shouldn’t always trust the cooking times on the box.
apicha.panoram/Shutterstock
Stick it with a toothpick.
An inconvenient truth about baking is that oven temperatures can vary wildly between different models, different brands, and different appliance ages. Cake-mix boxes must put oven temperatures in their instructions, but whether or not you can actually use that exact temperature to get a correctly baked cake depends on how accurate your oven’s temperature is.
Executive pastry chef Jason Jimenez of The Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. warned that certain ovens can have “hot spots” or places where the temperature is uneven, which can result in inconsistently baked same day cakes delivery.
“The tried-and-true way to tell if your cake is ready is by inserting a toothpick into the center of the cake to check for doneness. If it comes out clean, then the cake is done for sure.
“I like to pull the cake delivery online in India from the oven when I see a tiny bit of batter on the end of the toothpick and just before it is completely done,” Jimenez said.”This may take some practice, but the residual heat will finish the baking process outside of the oven. This will ensure a moist yet fully baked cake.”
source - https://www.businessinsider.com.au/boxed-cake-mix-baking-mistakes-2019-6
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