How To Properly Soak The Cakes

Author: Marko Balašević Time for reading: ~1 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

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You can make a cake much more tender, juicier and tastier by properly soaking the cakes. This is especially true for shortbread cakes and biscuit cakes prepared according to the classic recipe (which do not include fat-based ingredients: butter, sour cream, cream).

How to soak cake layers at home

Impregnation for homemade biscuits will not be superfluous, since when they are baked, a dense crust can form on the surface. If this crust is pre-moistened with impregnation, then it becomes softer and it will be better to absorb the cream. When impregnating cakes, take into account the following nuances:

- Impregnation can be sugar syrup, sweet tea with lemon or strong coffee with cognac, berry or fruit compote, light syrup that remains when canning fruits, yogurt;

- for a biscuit made from 3 eggs, 150 ml of impregnation will be enough;

- it is best to impregnate the cakes with a culinary brush, passing it several times over the entire surface of the cake;

- if you do not have such a brush - soak the biscuit cakes with a spoon, picking up an incomplete spoonful of syrup each time for uniform seepage;

- if you baked a high biscuit, then it is best to cut it into 2-3 cakes and soak each cake separately. Then the whole cake will be juicy both on top and inside;

- when impregnating, pay special attention to the edge of the cakes, as they have a dense outer crust.

Recipes with biscuit ingredient

Recipes with the ingredient apricot syrup

Ingredients:

Biscuit
Apricot syrup

We will need:

Cooking brush
A spoon

How to properly soak cakes step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

For work, we need a biscuit cake, impregnation for cakes, a culinary brush or a spoon.

Step 2

Syrup diluted with water, compote, tea with lemon, strong sweet coffee with cognac, yogurt, cream can serve as an impregnation. You can read about classic impregnation in syrup recipes.

Step 3

Impregnation is best placed in a tall glass. Wet a cooking brush with impregnation.

Step 4

Pass the brush 2-3 times over the entire surface of the cake, soaking it.

Step 5

Pay special attention to the edges of the cake.

Step 6

Korzh is ready to work.

How To Properly Soak The Cakes

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How to soak cake layers at home

How to properly soak cakes step by step instructions with photos

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