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Q&A How can I rescue a soft cake without losing too much flavour?

Take it as a lesson for next time! Fundamentally, if your cake isn't done yet, there's not much you can do except bake it for longer - there are things you can do before you cook it, but once it's ...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar ArtOfCode‭ · 2020-06-08T20:48:22Z (over 4 years ago)
Take it as a lesson for next time!

Fundamentally, if your cake isn't done yet, there's not much you can do except bake it for longer - there are things you can do _before_ you cook it, but once it's in a half-baked state, there's not much to be done except finish baking.

For cakes with fruit in them, you could consider adding some of the same fresh fruit as a topping once the cake is done; that won't do much for the cake _itself_, but it'll add back some of the fresh-fruit flavours to the finished thing.

Make a note on your recipe that this particular cake needs less liquid. Bear in mind that this will hold for a lot of cakes that use fresh fruit: there's a surprising amount of liquid in the fruit itself, so you often need a little less than if you were baking the same cake without fruit.