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Chocolate Cake. And how.
February 12, 2008

Over at Linoleum Dynamite you’ll find a chocolate cake recipe. It will take you all of seven minutes to make and will only use one bowl. Never made a cake from scratch? It’s not scary, promise. And it’s worth it, promise. Your Valentine would think the world of you, promise.

There is a science to baking. A science that I am trying to learn. I would like to pass on what I’ve learned in my limited yet growing knowledge on to you. I’ll start with cake basics. Because that’s what I made today. Duh. (You too can learn all this stuff. Try this book, this one, this one, and don’t forget about this guy.)

When making a cake you want all of your ingredients at room temperature. This is why many cake recipes will call for warm or hot water to be added. This is an easy way to cheat is if you don’t have time to bring all of your ingredients to room temperature. Why do this? Well, because when the ingredients are already at room temperature the the batter won’t have to warm up before it can start baking, leaving you with a more moist, tender cake. (Think of room temperature ingredients as cake foreplay, once it gets into the heat of things it can go straight to doing its job.)

Secondly, lining your cake pans is paramount. Look! I made a video to show you how! Spray your pan, measure your parchment and spray again. You should never have another stuck cake again. (Parchment is different than wax paper, it is coated with silicone and can withstand higher temperatures, nothing sticks to it and it won’t leave behind any strange flavors.)

Third. Oven thermometer. My oven can be off anywhere from 25 to 50 degrees depending on the weather. Don’t trust what you set it at. Trust an oven thermometer. Even if you have a digital convection oven, use an oven thermometer. Trust me.

baking cakes copy

Fourth. DON’T OPEN THE FREAKING DOOR. Every time you open the oven door you lose 25 to 50 degrees of heat. Which means the oven has to recover that heat before it can continue baking as usual. Recovery=longer baking time, drier baked goods and *gasp* fallen baked goods. KEEP THE DOOR SHUT. If you must check in on your food, get a baking stone and keep it in your oven at all times. It will retain heat and help your oven recover faster from all of your nosiness.

Fifth. Let your cake cool all the way before you frost it. Unless you like mushy piles of cake be patient. Good frosting is made mostly from what? Butter. And butter melts when put on something warm. Melted butter is slippery. Get my point?

Cake porn

The last thing I can think of is flour. Maybe you’ve seen cake flour. Cake flour has a lower protein content than all purpose flour and all purpose flour has a lower protein content than bread flour. Cake flour will give you a very light, tender cake. All purpose flour will give you a sturdier, denser cake.

Cake is the result of a bunch of tiny air bubbles formed by steam trapped inside the protein of the flour. How tough those air bubbles are depends on how much protein is in your flour. Let’s say cake flour is like a bubble blown with bubble gum. Soft and easy to break. (Soft, tender cake) All purpose flour will give you bubbles that more resemble a latex balloon, thin, but harder to pop. Bread flour ends up being more like a rubber ball. Much harder to pop and therefore chewier and denser (think french bread).

If that analogy doesn’t make sense to you I’m sad, because it totally makes sense to me.

So there’s my cake knowledge. Go forth and prosper. And check out the recipe at Linoleum Dynamite. I drew a happy face on the finished product.

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Comments off.

By Mrs. Chicken on 02.12.08 10:34 pm | Permalink

Indy is 128 miles from my house. I humbly request that you hop in your car and deliver said cake to my house, as I am currently too pregnant to make it.

Thank you in advance.

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By Loralee on 02.12.08 10:55 pm | Permalink

Ok, that made sense to me. (Especially the foreplay part. We won’t discuss what that says about ME).

That explained a lot I didn’t know and some I knew but didn’t really “Get”.

Maybe there is hope for my lack of baking skills after all..

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By punchanella on 02.12.08 11:15 pm | Permalink

that was a fabulous analogy. fabulous.

By Sadie on 02.12.08 11:15 pm | Permalink

The analogy TOTALLY made sense to me :D I’m working on cake baking, too…especially since I’ve become “cake mama” to my playgroup :D

P.S. That chocolate cake looks YUM

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By Mommy Daisy on 02.12.08 11:30 pm | Permalink

Oh, I love the hints and tips. I usually prepare my cake pans that way, so at least I’m on the right track. And I’ve been looking for ways to keep my homemade cakes more moist (instead of resorting to the box mixes). I will take your advice.

Now like Mrs. Chicken said, I don’t live too far from Indy (175 miles for me). But I’d like to come for a cooking class…and maybe a few samples. ;)

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By Sheyenne on 02.12.08 11:53 pm | Permalink

I’ve been schooles. Seriously- I know NONE of that. I’ve never made a non-box-cake in my LIFE. Do you have to have a Kitchenaide?

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By Sheyenne on 02.12.08 11:54 pm | Permalink

Schoole-D, I meant schooled. And somehow now that doesn’t look right to me either….

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By Antonette on 02.13.08 12:00 am | Permalink

Totally loved the thumbs up on the video. lol

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By Mich on 02.13.08 12:22 am | Permalink

You have a baking stone? I suddenly realized that I have no business looking on your cooking blog. You are a pro and I am way out of my league here. I am impressed though! You make beautiful food…. and babies. ;)

By Casey on 02.13.08 12:25 am | Permalink

Mich-
I was serving chicken, burnt on the outside, raw on the inside less than three years ago. If there was hope for that girl there’s hope for anyone.

By Smiling Mom on 02.13.08 12:31 am | Permalink

Love your header today!

Second, I am so excited you are doing this. I just tried making French bread yesterday. I didn’t even know that they made bread flour!

I have a baking stone, I’ll stick it in there. Now I need to get a oven themometor. And I will stop opening the door!

Truly, you have a gift. Thank you so much for sharing it!!

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By Angella on 02.13.08 12:41 am | Permalink

Matthew has the biggest sweet tooth on the planet. I am SO MAKING THIS.

xoxo

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By Krista on 02.13.08 12:52 am | Permalink

I totally understood the bubbles…i actually was wondering what the difference of protein content played in baking…i love homemade bread and i have never been afraid to make a cake from scratch just too lazy, so i am now thinking i will need a few more different containers for flour: cake flour, semolina (pasta) flour, all purpose, and bread flour! need more containers!

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By Lynne on 02.13.08 1:27 am | Permalink

Wow! I totally learned something today, that makes today a good day. Thanks for the great baking advice. (loved the video) I’m making a cake for my love’s birthday this week, so perhaps I will try your tips since I have more time on my hands now.

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By Lynne on 02.13.08 1:29 am | Permalink

…and Alton is the bomb!!!

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By Kimmie on 02.13.08 3:06 am | Permalink

The only thing better than this post, is if you made the cake for me. I love you!

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By girl on 02.13.08 9:43 am | Permalink

That is one seriously yummy looking cake.

By Erika on 02.13.08 10:08 am | Permalink

I’m “sick” Casey… you need to bring me a cake ;)

Okay, really I need more lessons (maybe when Seminary is over??).

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By Mary Beth on 02.13.08 10:24 am | Permalink

That looks sooo good. Did the moosh get to help at all? Some of the best times I had with my younger brothers was making cupcakes and cakes with them:)

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By Fuchsia on 02.13.08 10:27 am | Permalink

Wow. I didn’t know that opening the oven door would cause that much heat loss. I open the door all the time. I guess it’s time to replace that oven light.

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By Mymsie on 02.13.08 10:47 am | Permalink

Good tips – especially the room temp one!

I love Alton – the nerdery is so enchanting.

My Mom always told me to crack my eggs in a separate bowl first. I thought it was unnecessary until I had to try and fish eggshell out of a big bowl of cake ingredients.

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By emmy on 02.13.08 10:49 am | Permalink

I love the Alton Brownish scientific info. I took a food science class in college that reminds me of the info on his TV show but Alton is way more interesting! Thanks for the book tips too. I really enjoy making food but am lazy, you are an inspriation!

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By Adrienne on 02.13.08 11:49 am | Permalink

um……Yum!

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By Must be Motherhood on 02.13.08 12:00 pm | Permalink

I have never made a cake–I’m more of a safe cookie-making girl. You may have convinced me here…

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By Kathryn Scheibmeir on 02.13.08 1:33 pm | Permalink

I had no intentions of making cake today and then I come out your blog with my boys sitting beside me…they see the cake and are now begging for it..thanks Casey!

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By Amber on 02.13.08 1:34 pm | Permalink

Thanks for the tips and the scientific explanation of cake. If you’d been my science teacher in high school, maybe I would’ve cried less.

Story: The last time I made a cake from scratch I made a mistake (I know what it was, but feel too ashamed to say, because it was pretty stupid) that made the cake stick to the pans A LOT. But whatever, I pieced it together as much as I could (which wasn’t much–it was basically a pile of cake), frosted it, took it to a party, and it got devoured in about ten minutes. So when it comes down to it, I guess people don’t care if the cake is ugly. Good news for me.

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By STACIESMADNESS on 02.13.08 1:43 pm | Permalink

YUM AND DROOL.

thanks for a great looking post!

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By Izzy on 02.13.08 2:16 pm | Permalink

I think I’ve broken every single one of those rules for making a good cake. No wonder my last homemade cake was so sucky!

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By Nicole on 02.13.08 2:28 pm | Permalink

I just found your blog through Stumble, and it is so awesome. My hubby and I were laughing about your Doctor visit :) I’ll be checking back ofter.

This chocolate cake looks AMAZING! I was looking for a cake to bake for my birthday, and this looks perfect :)

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By ali on 02.13.08 4:33 pm | Permalink

must.have.cake.

i actually have never used cake flour and i make homemade cakes all the time (i an anti-mixes) hmmm..will definitely try it!

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By Melanie at Beanpaste on 02.13.08 6:14 pm | Permalink

Very nicely explained. Plus, excellent advocacy for non-mix cakery. (Cakery? That’s a word, isn’t it?)

One last piece of advice for would-be bakers: do not purchase the folding-leg-style cooling racks. Yes, they save space but those racks secretly hate you and will randomly buckle under the weight of an elaborate four-layer cake you are making for your special Valentine, tossing said cake layers onto the kitchen floor where they will be immediately attacked by two cake-starved toddlers. This will likely happen while you are in the bathroom, having a hasty pee.

As you were, then.

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By Mrs. Mustard on 02.13.08 9:50 pm | Permalink

I haven’t made a scratch cake in a while, but this post totally makes me want to do it again. Although, I fear Sacha may end up like the moosh, covered in chocolate, and rolling in the flour for giggles afterward. He thinks he’s funny that way.

By erin on 02.13.08 10:41 pm | Permalink

Your blog has changed since I’ve last been here…love the new look!!
Your pict is gorgeous, too!!

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By Queen of Shake Shake on 02.14.08 11:34 am | Permalink

And here I thought I knew something about baking cakes.

I’m going to write these notes down on a card and stick it in my recipe basket. You should feel special…only the bestest recipes and ideas go into that recipe file. :-P

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By andi on 02.14.08 2:07 pm | Permalink

You are a domestic goddess. I love how you were all business in the cake pan lining video. You take baking very seriously, don’t you?

I must try this out – it looks so much better than the things I make out of the boxes.

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By A Whole Lot of Nothing on 02.14.08 5:21 pm | Permalink

Send

the

cake

now.

I’ll pay for shipping.

By Jen M on 02.14.08 7:29 pm | Permalink

Okay – what about baking above 7,000 feet?

I have studied how leavening agents change, how the atmospheric pressure affects this – how the lowered boiling point (186 versus 212) and dry air affect things.

And still – my baking is barely improving since we moved from sea level nearly four years ago. Once upon a time – bread and pastries were easy for me. Now they’re rocket science.

How much would you charge me to just one-day ship me that cake?

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By Mike Peterson on 02.16.08 12:29 pm | Permalink

Great tips. And that was a pretty cool video.

By Biddy on 02.17.08 1:12 am | Permalink

seriously, convince your husband to move SOUTH when he’s a big shot lawyer so we can open a bakery. just think of the yummy baked goods we could create and sell together!! oh, and there is soon to be a freakin awesome cake on my bloggy. possibly tomorrow :-)

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By Amy on 02.17.08 1:52 am | Permalink

Thanks so much for the tips. I have a from scratch German Chocolate Cake that is highly requested and FABULOUS!!!!
And now I know how to make it even moister (is that a word?)

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By Ann on 02.19.08 4:48 pm | Permalink

Oh my gosh that looks delicious!!! I am off all sweets right now for a little “family health challenge” and just looking at that cake about did me in!! I think I will make it for my little girls birthday party… Your cooking ability amazes me! Where did you learn these fancy tricks of the trade??

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By Jen on 02.03.09 10:32 pm | Permalink

OMG this looks soooo good. I NEED a piece. Please?

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By Chris on 05.19.09 9:38 pm | Permalink

Not only does that look too good for words but once again (second time today) I learned something from your blog. I had NO clue about the different flours—but it totally makes sense. And makes me want to bake. I’m drooling here Casey!

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