Ok I made a peanut butter pie and sprinkled brown sugar on the top, pull it out of the fridge several hours later and instead of brown sugar there is a runny brown caramel look on top of my pie! What caused this????
One more question, when broiling coconut icing is it safe to put the cake on the cardboard in the oven to broil the coconut? Am I making since? Information please.!!!
Thanks

Anyone??????

The brown sugar absorbed moisture from the air in the refrigerator and liquefied.

I've never put cardboard into the oven before... I'd use a sheet tray.... the idea of cardboard in the oven makes me nervous....

Thank you!!!!

Ive dried sugars in the oven on cardboard before but the temp was only 170 degrees. I once accidently turned my oven on 350 with a pizza box inside and it scorched. HTH

Wow thanks guys...I really don't need to burn the house down right now! lol!

ROFL ~ ya, definitely don't put flammable cardboard under the broiler.

Goodness.

I am trying to figure out if I read your question correctly; you said "is it safe to put the cake on the cardboard in the oven."

If you want it to be already on the cake, you would need a food torch, like they use for crème brûlée. Even then you'd risk melting your icing, which I'd think would happen almost instantaneously. I'd broil the coconut on a cookie sheet and then sprinkle it on the cake...jmo!

Well it was an oatmeal cake, I found the recipe on CC and it said to place the coconut sugar mixture on the top of the cake and broil it. I just wasn't sure what it meant. It wasn't really icing. Just brown sugar, coconut, and butter. Thanks

Oh I see, the mixture IS the icing, in a way...? Kind of like a sugar/coconut glaze, it sounds like. I'd only use the cake board if none of it is actually extending beyond the cake itself. Broiler=open flame=I'm the kind of person that WOULD burn my house down! :LOL:

If you are broiling icing that is already on the cake, then you dont' have to worry about the cardboard. It sounds like it would only be in there a few seconds, like when you make Baked Alaska (Ice cream over cake, topped with a merinque that you put under the broiler for just a few seconds/minutes to brown the merinque. The ice cream doesn't even get warm, let alone melt.)

If your iced cake was under the broiler for more than a few seconds, you'd do more damage to the cake than you ever would to a piece of cardboard.

And I've accidentally baked more than one frozen pizza still on the cardboard.

Ok thank you!!!