Well my homemaking project this week is cake from scratch. I've never made it before, I've made many Pillsbury box cakes but never from scratch, here goes nothing. I've done a good amount of research about this, word is homemade cakes are very hard to make moist so I searched everywhere on the net for a moist recipe. I came across a recipe on a cake blog and figured I'd try it out.
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| The Ingredients |
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HA! I got so carried away I forgot to take a pic of wet ingredients going in, oh well. You mix all wet ingredients in excepts the eggs, beat for 2 minutes, then add 2 large eggs and beat another 2 minutes, pour into pan and bake 25-35 minutes. Here are a couple of pictures of the finished product, the first picture is the cake sans icing the second, I couldn't decide if I liked the icing so I cut a piece and had the hubby try it before I iced the whole thing.
I made homemade strawberry icing to go on top, surprisingly, I thought the icing was too sweet but of the 4-6 people who tried this said they loved the icing, I"m not much of an icing girl anyway, so it shouldn't surprise me that I wasn't totally fond of it. Anyway, cake turned out a little dry. I've thought of three reasons why this happened. First the recipe called to put it in 3 round cake pans, I don't have round cake pans so I cooked it in a 13 x9 baking dish, which had to cook 50 minutes to be done, also, I didn't add any pudding, applesauce or mayonnaise as others had suggested to get it to be moist. I'll have to try one of those, probably not mayonnaise next time. Another side note, this recipe is a half yellow cake recipe half pound cake and I think that made a difference as well. I'll say this though, I am determined to learn to make a good, moist cake. You'll see other attempts down the road :) That's it for now, until next time. ; p
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