/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15845110
they are all like that you stack them to desired height

>google: cake faults peaked top
>first result
>"This is usually caused by a tough batter, which is caused by overmixing"

stop over-mixing your fucking batter
and also learn how to google shit you dumb cunt

also you're under-filling your pan, either make more batter or buy smaller pans

>>15845129
Well you don't need to be mean about it

>>15845140
fuck you you stupid cunt

there are ten thousand cookbooks and one hundred thousand websites trying to teach your autistic ass how to cook and you couldn't be bothered to look at even one before posting here

if you need me to spoonfeed you then you take your fucking medicine like the cripple you are and you say 'thank you daddy' when you're done swallowing

Prob your oven

>>15845148
Sheesh dude, get help you're so filled with hate...
You get nothing from being like that, be nice to people

>>15845148
Zoomer just discovered 4chan last week
You know you're allowed to actually talk to people here, right?

>>15845148
yeah you're so mean, like wtf? the other anon was just asking a simple question. take some chill pills, you need them

>Is it my oven?
probably. have you ever used an oven thermometer to see if it was working correctly?

you should also listen to >>15845129.

>>15845148
Actually kinda based.

>>15845219
>you're allowed to actually talk to people here right?

fuck off newfag go back to redd it

>>15845110
theres a lot wrong with this picture
that seems very thin, are you sure your formula is specified for that size pan?
or is that thing really dense because you didn’t mix your batter properly?
your oven is too hot the poor cake is getting scorched are you using a fan oven?
all cakes are taller in the middle than about the edges, your to trim the layers to an even height before frosting

>>15845110
No idea what you were going for, OP, but if you try to make a genoise/pan di spagna without beating the eggs and sugar thoroughly so that they gain several x volume, then the end result will look similar to your pic. I know because I made this very mistake the first time I tried to bake one. You absolutely need an electric whisk or kitchen robot to mix the eggs for that particular recipe.

>>15845148
Noooo you can't be rude! Where are the moderators!?

>>15845292
>he says while redditspacing

>>15845148
take meds

>>15845148
And this is why sqt doesnt work on ck lol

>>15845148
Open wide so I can shit into your mouth.

>>15845148
based

>>15845148
based

>>15845148
G-gottem

>>15845148
This poster has a point

>>15845148
Ramsay is that you?

>>15845148
how are you still single??

>>15845129

>>15845148
Being angry doesn't make you interesting

>>15845148

I used to have the same issue with my cakes rising in the middle. The solution is actually really easy, after you pour the batter in get a spoon and spoon out the majority of the batter from the middle and put it on the sides so theres a hole with less batter in the middle that way when the middle rises it'll even out and be the same height as the sides. Also If your sides are getting burnt try cooking it on a lower temp

>>15845148
Based, all other posters are zoomed summer children and plebbit

>>15845188
>>15845219
>>15845243
>>15846785
Fucking faggots, the whole lot of you

>>15845148
Genuinely based

>>15845148
based
fuck newfags that just want to be spoonfed

>>15845110
It's incredible having sex with your own sister. It's on a whole other level. Heavenly. I hope it's this special once she hits puberty.

>>15845148
So what you're saying is /ck/ should be deleted since everything discussed here can just be googled.

>>15845148
Fuck yeah dude, when people ask a question ANYWHERE I whip out my phone and YELL the easily googled answer as rudely as possible so as to teach them to never ask basic bitch questions again before googling.
For some reason they never learn and I have to find new people to teach all the time. I can hear the first ones still saying shit like "How's the weather tomorrow?" to another guy. It makes me seethe.

>>15845110
>I follow the recipe the best I can.
theres your problem. Baking is chemistry, you have to follow the recipe exactly. Measure by weight.

i saw a video, i think it was weissman's there his cake batter peaked at the top, he just recommended taking it out of the pan as soon as you can and flipping it over so the peak can get a bit pushed down into the batter. haven't actually tested it much since so far i've only made a couple of cakes (tres leches and chef john's honey cake) where this didn't matter as much but it seems clever to me.
https://youtu.be/cVO7WOlJFY8?t=189

>>15850805
Cry moar

It's your cake tin. A high quality cake tin is reflective, thick, with tall sides. All of these help the cake heat up (hence rise) evenly.

>>15850838
What do you mean?

>>15845110
I've read they'll rise more evenly if there's steam in the oven, but I never bothered to try because it didn't matter much to me. But you can try adding a pan with boiling water to the oven while you bake the cake, like some people do with bread.

If it was a little off and you want to build a professional looking cake you would use a cake trimmer. This levels off the cake. If it's burnt however, I'd start again.

>>15850357
This is the correct response, if the googled shit doesn't work then you ask for help because obviously something is fucked rather than 'I can't be assed to see the first response on google'.