I have this recipe:
Ingredients:
250 gm butter
250 gm caster sugar
6 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
270 gm self-raising flour (sifted with cocoa powder)
30gm cocoa powder
1 tsp chocolate emulco
1/2 cup of evaporated milk
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 160°C.
2. Beat the butter with the caster sugar until white and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time and mix well. Then add is vanilla essence and evaporated milk and mix well.
3. Lastly fold in sifted flour into the butter mixture and mix well. Pour into a greased and lined cake tray and bake.
I used an 8" round tin and had to bake 1 hour 20 minutes before the centre is cooked. I do not have an icing nail to use as a heating core.
By the time the cake is done, I found the sides a bit dry.
Can someone please help me how to prevent the sides from drying.
I read somewhere that cornsyrup can be added to make cake moist. I added 1 tsp of this but it doesn't seem to help.
Help.......I need to make the cake for a customer on Friday.
It will really help if you can use a nail or heating core. Your cake has to bake so long that the edges are going to dry out.
You can re-moisten the edges with a simple syrup. After the cake is baked, brush the simple syrup over the cut layers.
You can also use wet tea towels around the edges of the pans, or the baking strips that you can buy. It will help slow the baking on the outside eges.
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