Baking Guide
Trouble-shooting - Biscuits & Batters
Trouble-shooting Sandwich cakes & Sponges
PROBLEM
POSSIBLE CAUSE
Hard and brittle biscuits
Over baking or insufficient liquid
Biscuits spreading during baking
Oven too cool. Baking tray over greased.
Too much sugar
Soggy, heavy and tough batter
Batter too thick. Tin too small. Oven too
cool or fat insufficiently heated.
Poor rising
Batter too thin. Oven too cool or fat insuf-
ficiently heated.
PROBLEM
POSSIBLE CAUSE
Domed top
Insufficient creaming of mixture. Cake
baked on too high a shelf position, or at
too high a temperature. Paper liners can
cause the outer edge not to rise and the
centre to peak.
Hollowed / sunken top
Too much raising agent. Oven tempera-
ture too low, or incorrect shelf position.
Cake removed from oven before it’s
cooked. Use of soft tub margarine.
Very pale, but cooked
Oven temperature too low. Baked too low
in the oven
Overflowing tin
Tin too small for the amount of mixture
Summary of Contents for Richmond Traditional 1000G
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