There’s nothing vanilla about vanilla cakes, but there are a million and one ways to mess up this classic flavor. Here is a simple trick that leads to a more tender and moist cake.
While all cakes can benefit from this tip, vanilla cakes are the most prone to drying out. Online baker and blogger passionforbaking shows on TikTok that there are some tricks we need to follow to get that perfect cake. To get a tender cake you don’t need a special dry or wet ingredient; instead, the texture change comes from a simple thing — waiting.
Yes, simply letting your batter rest for twenty minutes at room temperature before baking leads to the gluten relaxing and the moisture penetrating into the dry ingredients more effectively. Once your cake batter is prepped, take your bowl with the raw batter and cover it with plastic wrap.
After twenty minutes, divide the cake batter between the prepared pans and then bake. The simple rest time leads to a super tender and satisfying cake crumb that’s super delicate and moist through and through, with no crumbly dry spots.
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