When baking cakes, some subtleties must be taken into account, then the cakes will turn out to be tall, even and unusually tasty!
- The dough for the cakes should not be too liquid, otherwise the cakes will turn out flat. Thick dough is also not suitable for baking, otherwise the cakes will become stale very quickly. The density of the dough should be such that it can be easily cut with a knife, while the dough should not stick to the blade of the knife.
- The cake dough is kneaded long enough, the dough is considered ready when it does not stick to the table and hands.
- The cake batter should come up three times. The first time the dough should come up, the second time the dough comes up when all the ingredients are added, and the third time the dough comes up already laid in the mold.
- Do not leave the dough in a draft. Easter cakes should be served in a warm place. The optimum temperature for the dough is 35-45 degrees.
- When placing the dough in the molds, fill them only halfway. While the dough is in the molds, it should rise so that it fills three quarters of the mold and only then can the molds be placed in the oven.
- Ready-to-bake cakes should be greased with an egg, which must be beaten with a teaspoon of butter and one tablespoon of water, sprinkled with coarse sugar and nuts.
- In order for the Easter cakes to rise evenly during baking, you need to stick a wooden stick in the middle of each Easter cake. After a while, the stick must be removed, and if the stick is dry, then the cake can be taken out of the oven.
- Easter cakes are best baked in a humidified oven (you can put a small container of water on the bottom of the oven for this). Baking temperature - 200-220 degrees.
- If the mass of the cake to be baked is less than 1 kg, then it is baked for about half an hour, while large cakes weighing 2 kg should be in the oven for at least an hour and a half.
- If the cakes start to burn in the oven from above, then they should be covered with baking paper. The finished cakes are removed from the molds and placed on their side until they cool.
