With a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment beat the butter on high speed in a large bowl until smooth and creamy about 1 minute.
Marble cake too dry.
A dry cake is usually the result of one of the following pitfalls.
Your cake is too dry.
If there s simply too much flour and not enough butter a cake will taste dry.
First i mixed the sugar and butter until fluffy then added the eggs 1by1 then having put all the dry ingredients together beforehand i added a little at a time alternating with the milk.
The culprits for dry cake are ingredients that absorb moisture such as flour or other starches cocoa or any milk solids.
But these cakes are not a lost cause.
Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl.
A second and equally damaging culprit is over baking.
Very light and fluffy not too sweet and no bitterness like some other marble cake recipes i ve tried recently.
The ratio of wet to dry ingredients determines a cake s moisture level.
Here s what you can do to fix the problem after the cake is out of the oven.
Using the wrong ingredients making mistakes while mixing the batter or baking the cake too long or at too high a temperature.
Spray or lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans.
On the other hand if there s too much milk and not enough flour a cake will taste too wet.
I am in az at around 1200 ft above sea level and i reduced the oven temp to 340f i usually bake at 325f and my 2 8 rounds were done at 24 min.
How to fix dry cake after its baked.
Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c.
However it is unique in that the eggs are then added one at a time before the reminder of the wet ingredients are slowly poured in.
The mixing method for this marble cake is most similar to the reverse creaming method of mixing that we have used in several of our recipes in that the dry ingredients are combined before the butter is mixed in.
Sometimes despite your best efforts a cake turns out dry.
Once you understand how to avoid the common cake baking blunders you ll bake a moist cake every time.
Brush on a simple syrup.
Finding the right balance between wet and dry ingredients is key.
To prevent a dry cake be sure that your oven temperature is correct and that you aren t overbaking the cake.
This cake was just what i wanted reading the other reviews beforehand too dense i simply reversed the order in which i mixed the ingredients.
