Several common tips for making cake embryos.

Sponge cake

Making sponge cake with ingredients such as eggs, sugar, flour and a small amount of fat, etc., of which fresh eggs is the most important condition for making sponge cake.

There are two ways to make sponge cake: one is "Angel Cake", which uses only egg whites and not egg yolks, and the other is "Yellow Sponge Cake", which uses whole eggs and thus has a different recipe.

Angel cake is made from egg whites, sugar, flour and fat in the ratio of 5:3:3:1.

There are generally two traditional recipes for sponge cake: one with a 1:1:1 ratio of eggs to sugar and flour, and another with a 2:1:1 ratio of eggs to sugar and flour.

Finger biscuits

Finger cookies ingredients are made up of egg whites, egg yolks, sugar, and flour.

The production method is relatively simple, whip the egg white, add sugar in three parts, the state is able to pull up a small curved hook on it, and then add the egg yolks, sift the flour and mix it well. 190-200 degrees, bake for 10 minutes. Before entering the oven in the surface of the recipe sifted powdered sugar, forming a layer of thin sugar shell, to increase the texture.

Related to the production of everyone can find the appropriate recipe on the Internet, the following mainly for you to answer some common questions when making cake embryo.

Doing a good job of the cake embryo generally 10 minutes after the expansion to the edge of the mold, the central part of the slightly sunken, the surface began to show baking color; into the oven for 18-20 minutes to expand full of the entire mold, the center of the slightly bulging, the surface of the very beautiful baking color; continue to bake for about 25 minutes, will be basically baked.

Everyone needs to pay attention to the following aspects when doing so.

1. Oven temperature

Every oven has a slight difference in temperature, when making, it is best to experiment with a small piece of cake.

2. Why the egg whites did not swell up

The egg whites must be beaten until stiff peaks form when the whisk is lifted, and when mixing with the egg yolks, the technique should be light and fast, so as to avoid defoaming the egg whites.

The baking powder is not enough. If it's a cake that requires baking powder, be sure to pay attention to the amount. To use an electronic scale to weigh accurately.

3. Pay attention to the control of water

Too little water will be grainy inside the cake, there is an empty feeling under the crust, the crust is thick and dark, and there are white spots of undissolved sugar particles. This is the time to add the right amount of water.

Too much water will make the cake smaller in size, tightly organized, less easy to bake, and sticky when eating.

Cake embryo still need to try many times, accumulated experience, the beginning of the failure does not matter, are normal, do a few more times will be better and better.