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Friday, March 06, 2009

12 TIPS To MaKe A SuCcEsSFuLL CoTToN CaKe

Making Cotton Cake isn't that hard, all you need is a special preparations and follow these brief tips to get a maximal result =")

1. Don't stir the egg whites if the other preparations are undone. This is because the characteristic of the egg whites that are easily watery and collapse.

2. Choose fresh eggs. If the eggs were put in the refrigerator, you should take them out and let them reach room temperature before you stir them.

3. Make sure the baking pans and tools that will be used are all dry and oil free.

4. When you melt the butter, don't let the water part separated from the oil. Which means don't let it boil. This might cause the cake get easily dry and sometimes there are parts that are not well done at the base.

5. Spread the baking pans with margarine evenly, and then cover them with the same size parchment paper. Remember, any excess of paper will make the cake wavy and bumpy.

6. If you want to make a marble design on the batter's surface, you can do it by taking lines with the help of a toothpick slowly.

7. It is best to bake the Cotton Cake using Au Bain Marie technique. That is a baking process where the baking pans filled with batter are put on top of another pan filled with hot water (on the middle rack). If you're using an oven with no temperature indication, just use a small fire to make the cake cooked evenly.

8. Heat the oven first for about 20 minutes, before it is used to bake.

9. In the baking process, don't open the oven's door too often, because it will cause the temperature drop so that the baking process might take too long. And then the cake will fall down.

10. Don't bake the Cotton Cake in piles, it will cause the cakes are not cooked perfectly because the temperature could not spread evenly.

11. If you're creative, you can make interesting shapes from the batter to make interesting shapes of Cotton Cakes.

12. If you want to give a more intense taste and aroma, you can add essence extract, such as : vanilla extract, mocha extract, or coffee powder.


Those factors above are quite holding an important role in making Cotton Cake. If everything are done accurately, precisely and carefully, it will surely give you good advantage.

Cheers!

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