Can someone tell me why my cakes shrink while they cool? All the cakes I have made today have shrunk while they were cooling! Thanks.
Rosie
Baking 911 is a great site with a lot of wonderful information. Here is some information that will come in handy. You can find all types of possible answers to cake problems.
http://www.baking911.com/cakes/problems.htm
Edit:
Hmmm it's not letting me give you a link directly to Baking 911. Who knows what that is all about however you can copy and paste the URL into your browser.
are you cooling the cakes completely in the pan or on a rack?
If you leave them in the pan they continue to cook from the heat in the pan and will shrink as they start to over bake. (I forgot to take a cake out today and it did it a lot, thankfully I was going to carve the cake anyways so it was all good)
Thank you!!
You're welcome
Heat causes things to swell. Cold causes things to contract.
Heat causes the molecules to move faster, which is why water boils and oatmeal overflows out of the pan making a big mess on the stove.
Cold causes molecules to slow down. When they are not moving as fast, they tend to "group together", i.e. "contracting" or "shrinking".
Which is why you put ice on a bump on your head ... to take the swelling down.
One of the very few things I retained from 5th grade science class!
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