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Butter is used in cakes to give the cake a richer taste. If butter is not used, the ingredients are often too dry or the recipe ends up tasting bland. Butter provides the saltier aspect to the sweet dish, so that you end up with the best of both worlds.
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∙ 14y agoButter is helpful for cakes for a few reasons. First off, it adds a nice flavor to it. Butter also helps to make for a smooth and moist textire in the cake, along with help it cook and set up nicely.
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∙ 14y agoButter helps a cake to become more moist, along with goving it a sweet and smooth and creamy taste and texture.
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∙ 14y agoButter helps to make the cake moist and not dry, along with adding a smooth texture and creamy taste.
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What is cake icing?
Cake Icing is a mixture of butter, sugar and flavouring you put on top of a cake.
What do vegetable and butter do to the cake?
Butter makes a cake moist, adds flavor, and acts as a minor binding agent to help hold the cake together. Vegetables are not commonly put into cakes.
What if you put too much butter in cake recipe?
your cake will look and taste like goo in the oven
How do you Make Cake In harvest moon ds?
To make cake you need an oven.In the oven you need to put in an egg, a fruit, flour, and butter.
Do you pour mix straight into dish or butter dish first?
Do you mean a cake mix? If so, you need to butter the pan, and then flour the pan. After you remove the excess flour, then you can put the cake mix in the pan.
Why do you need to put soft margarine in a cake?
Whether you choose to use butter or soft margarine for a cake, all of your cake ingredients should be room temperature. Margarine or butter needs to be room temperature to make it easier to cream. If it is too cold, or too warm, the cake won't rise properly. Creaming the butter with room temperature butter or margarine allows air to incorporate into it properly.
What are the similarities of a butter cake and a sponge cake?
The major difference between a sponge cake and a butter cake is that a sponge cake has no fat in it, should be light in texture. A sponge cake not stored correctly will go dry quickly. A cake with butter in is a firmer moist cake which should keep longer.
What kind of icing do you put on an orange cake?
Try either a butter cream or cream cheese icing.
What ingredients can replace butter in cake and the cake still have a good smell?
margerine or soya butter
Can you put Cadbury flakes in cupcakes what happens?
well it depends what kind of cupcakes they are. only put them in vanilla, chocolate, or butter cake mix. they don't work well with other flavors. and if you put them in add 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract to the mix for vanilla or butter cake. and add 2 teaspoons of chocolate sauce or cinnamon for chocolate cake. (i bake cakes for a living trust me)
Do you have to put magarine to make a cake?
Most cake recipes actually call for butter. Some recipes call for vegetable oil. It all depends on the recipe.
Why do you use butter in cake?
do you want a salty cake
