Anyone!?

With my trouble with air bubbles and needing a nice dense cake, I've taken to trying squashing!

How do YOU feel about cake- squashing!?

I do it I found that tip somewhere online, before I found CC, and it worked for me. I can't seem to cut the top off in a level fashion. Plus, I like not having all of the extra cake scraps around that I otherwise might, though hubby tends to complain about that aspect

the "cake squashing" term is new to me, can someone educate me on that? lol

LOL, I first heard of it after becoming a member of CC! After the cake's cooled for a few minutes but still hot and in the pan, you put (1) a layer of wax or parchment paper, (2) a cake board that fits inside the pan and (3) a plate on top of that.

Then something moderately heavy to weigh it all down. It's squashes your cake down, making it denser, and flat on top, instead of dome-shaped that you have to trim/flatten.

Thats what I do everytime, I put a kitchen towel down over the cake (clean of course) then I have a.......wait for it.......Weight Watchers cookbook that is perfect size and I put it down on top of the towel works perfect everytime! I have found if you wait to long to put it on the cake will spring right back up so I do it as soon as the cake comes out. HTH! ! !

I use a cookie sheet. Bigger than the pan, and just press.

My name is Renee and I'm a squashaholic

I've been squashing for a long time. I didn't like the cake wasted when I had to level it. I rarely have to use the leveler now. And the cake is more dense.

hmm... that is very interesting. I can honestly say I never thought of that. Thanks for the education, lol.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! You guys are talking about the push-down method, where you "push down" on the cake to condense it and help level it a bit! NOW i get what you're talking about! I popped into this thread thinking someone sat on a cake and squashed it flat or something!

Haha that's what I thought too indydebi... I thought someone was squashing their cakes when they got frustrated or something haha. I use the push down method too and it makes the cake nice and dense and easier to make level with less wasted cake!

Still laughing about using the Weight Watchers cookbook to squash with! Maybe there is a use for those dumbbells that go with the excericise video....

The push-down method, not to be confused with the pull-out method, which is NOT, by the way, associated with cake.