Baffled With This, Need Your Thoughts Please.
Decorating By RubinaD Updated 23 Aug 2013 , 3:58am by RubinaD
Hi everyone, I tried this new vanilla cake recipe, followed the recipe and here is the out product. They are in a 8 by 2 pan, both went into the oven at the same time and both came out of the oven at the same time. I used Wilton's baking strips on the outside, the one on the left (darker) was in the left side of the oven with a strip that has not been washed. the cake on the right was in the right side of the oven with a cake strip that I had washed previously. could this have made such a difference in cooking the two? any insight would be great. thank you.
i think it's more likely that your oven is hotter on one side than the other. even the lighter cake looks like it's darker on one side.
many ovens have that problem. if you purchase an inexpensive oven thermometer you can figure it out by moving the thermometer around and recording the temps.
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yes, the pans are the same,
I would guess that your oven is hotter on the left rotating them half way threw would probably be the easiest fix, also if they are going to be decorated and covered up why dose it matter if they are different colors?
if they are going to be decorated and covered up why dose it matter if they are different colors?
They do taste different, one is over cooked...drier.
There's no problem opening the oven and moving the cakes while cooking if you're gentle. I have to take one pan out of the oven to rotate mine from shelf to shelf and that works fine.
Really easy trick to check for oven hot spots... cover a baking sheet in flat slices of white bread, stick them in on 350 until toasted, then check and see if they evenly toasted or if some are darker than others.
(What us lazy people do when we break our oven thermometers and don't want to go to the store :P)
When I worked at Maytag Appliances we used canned biscuits for testing ovens. The browning patterns showed even minor hot spots. But I would never do this at home or people would think I had no life. (Is this the right thread or am I lost in ForumLand?)
wrong thread Mimi!! So tell me as the Maytag lady, were you very lonely?
When I worked at Maytag Appliances we used canned biscuits for testing ovens. The browning patterns showed even minor hot spots. But I would never do this at home or people would think I had no life. (Is this the right thread or am I lost in ForumLand?)
LOL! At least if you know you have no life, you can do something about it, lol.
BAhahaha!
Well I am sure your appliances always worked perfectly and were always evenly browned..After al they were Maytags. I used to pretend my Maytag was broken just so that repairman would come visit me...what a HOTTIE!!! (kidding...come on now. Even I have standards!)
AHi everyone, thanks for all the advice, as fior this first cake it actually tasted really good from both halves. Made the same recipie again tonight, switched them around and one of the halves was a complete dissaster. One was really really brown and the other a sick pastey colour. So frustrated, and to top it off, the stove is a maytag!!! Ugh!
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