Baking quick questions

notanewuser

Olive oil spread will make the biscuits pretty much inedible. I wouldn't use stork for anything to be consumed. Can't you pop out for some butter?

gingin_2

Callie22 wrote: »

Stork would work better than the olive oil spread, but you might find that the biscuits spread a lot when you're baking them because of the higher water content in the marg.

Thank you - that's the advice I was needing. I'll go and get some butter as they need to hold their shape.

gingin_2

notanewuser wrote: »

Can't you pop out for some butter?

Yes I can but I've twisted my ankle so will have to hobble. I was just seeing if what I had might work but as I suspected, it won't.

zippychick

Hope they turned out well

I've merged this with baking quick questions

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AlwaysHappy

Afternoon, can anyone help? Have baked a cake in a moulded tin and the blooming thing has got stuck. I put cake release in the moulds first. At the moment it is inverted on a cooling tray - do you think as it cools it may just drop out? I have been around the edge with a blade so those bits are ok.
Many thanks.

jackieblack

What kind of cake?

AlwaysHappy

its a sponge lemon cake in a bee and hive tin.

jackieblack

I find my sponges usually shrink a little when cool (Not sure whether that's meant to happen though )

Savannah02K

If you can hold the tin in an oven glove or dishcloth and have a gas hob, then holding the bit of the (cooled) cake tin that's stuck, over the burner, can help loosen it a bit, I guess something to do with fat content of the cake maybe? You just need to keep an eye to make sure not scorching rest of cake. I usually find combination of that, hitting tin with flat of my hand (not when it's straight off the burner obviously!) and using most flexible knife I have works. If all else fails and it comes out in two biggish pieces, budge it together with buttercream and swear that's how it was supposed to be!

mioliere

When I was learning cookery at school, we were taught to stand the cake tin on a wet cloth for a few seconds as soon as it was removed from the oven; it works a treat!