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How to Get Flat Cake Layers - YouTube
Channel: Preppy Kitchen
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today i'm showing you how to get my
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signature flat cake layer
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this is what happens to a lot of people
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that don't use cake strips you get a
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domed cake it's darker and harder on the
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outside and it's not flat and fluffy on
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the edges you really want a nice moist
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cake that's moist through and through
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without having to cheat and pour sugar
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water on top
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i don't do that because my cakes are
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moist
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anyways let's get started okay there's a
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couple different ways to do this
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one
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buy some cake strips these are just
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fabric strips and there are tons of
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companies that make them mine are from
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wilton and i'm not getting paid to say
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that although i should be
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so anyways i like this set because they
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move so you can do
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a nine inch cake an eight inch cake a
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six inch cake and you just you know
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adjust
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then you just dip them in water and
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you're going to
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cover the outside of the pan with that
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but what if you don't want to buy some
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what if you're handy or you just don't
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feel like buying extra stuff then you
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can make your own using tin foil and
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paper towels which is what i did for
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like years
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and i'm going to show you that too
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when you're making your paper towel tin
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foil situation you're going to use a pan
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and basically figure out
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the length of the pan on the exterior
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edge
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you can do that just by wrapping paper
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towel around it but
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it doesn't have to be exact it could be
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a bit over
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more than enough totally good
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wet the paper towel and wring it out so
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it's not totally soaking wet but still
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wet
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then
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the hard part is to
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unfurl it since it's kind of wet now
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and we're gonna fold the paper towel
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fold it so it's like about two inches
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now for the tin foil which is super
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crinkly so i'll say this first
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you're gonna
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get enough tinfoil so that you have like
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maybe two inches on either side free
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put the paper towel on top and then
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start folding basically you wet the
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paper towel and now you're wrapping it
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in tinfoil which will hold the moisture
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in
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during baking that's it you're done now
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you have your homemade tin foil and
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paper towel baking strip and it was
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basically free
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let me show you how to wrap it around
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and then we'll get to the fun part
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so just place your pan sideways
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wrap the tin foil around it and then
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crimp the edge a few times so that it
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holds its place if yours is way too long
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go ahead and cut it it's not a big deal
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and then just fold the edge underneath
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so that it is kind of like really in
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place you don't slip off fabric version
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works exactly the same way i like to
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soak them for a while so they really get
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wet so so you'll see the water get
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absorbed and then after a few minutes
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just wring it out
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leave some water in there
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but you just don't want them sopping
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dripping wet
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after you're done apply to the pan
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and you're ready to put your batter in
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if you're wondering why cake's dome in
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the first place let me tell you it's
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super fun okay so when you put the cake
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in the oven
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the outside bakes faster than the inside
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because it's exposed to the heat of the
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oven where the inside is insulated by
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the cake batter surrounding it so what
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happens is that the outside bakes first
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the moisture goes away it forms its
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little cakey texture and it's frozen
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while the inside bakes slower and
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continues to rise which is nice
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in that it's nice and fluffy and the
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outside is burnt
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but we want a uniform bake so how do we
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do that we do that by cooling the
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outside of the cake
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with water so you use something that'll
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hold water onto the outside of the cake
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and then you'll get
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flat cake layers that are really fluffy
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on the outside
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not caramelized not dark like almost
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like magic okay so for demonstration
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purposes i'm going to make three cake
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layers
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one with the fabric strips on
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get it on tight
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one with my homemade tin foil version
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and one
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will be sacrificed and makes me so sad
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to do this with no cake strip so it's
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our control and you're probably going to
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see some doming and some
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kind of crunchier edges which i hate but
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it's just to show you that's how much i
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care
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alright making my favorite vanilla cake
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so as a bonus you can make this recipe
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and
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enjoy like the most moist and delicious
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vanilla cake ever okay
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starting off by sifting our dry
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ingredients 1 2 3 cups of all-purpose
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flour
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one heaping teaspoon of baking powder
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and one heaping quarter teaspoon of
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baking soda one cup of granulated sugar
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and like a generous pinch of salt
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sift it up
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just give it a nice sift sifting's nice
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because
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you make sure that there's no lumps and
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it also pre-mixes things so you're extra
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sure there's no big hump of leavening
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each and hanging out anymore we're gonna
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give this a quick whisk and set aside
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for the wet ingredients i'm adding in
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half a cup of sour cream
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which adds a lot of moisture
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half a cup of milk
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i'm using three egg whites for this
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recipe you can totally use eggs whole if
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you want but for a vanilla cake i love
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it to be nice and light and not a yellow
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cake some people love yellow cakes
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though so if you do
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go ahead and use the whole egg and have
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the sour cream three teaspoons of
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vanilla extract
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and now three quarters of a cup of
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basically melted butter
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you can melt it all the way if you want
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i don't
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i'm going to give it a nice whisk and
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it's almost done
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all right this is whisked up now we're
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going to combine and we're done
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but first
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i have to prep my pans
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when i prep my pans all i do is butter
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and flour them that's all you need
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then kind of even it out with my fingers
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this works really well if you're um
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using harder butter mine's room
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temperature though so just a word to the
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wise
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there are lots of different cake release
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sprays you could do too but
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those are not like natural ingredients
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so i would skip those and now for my
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last pan the control i feel so sad it's
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like throwing a cake away because it's
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not going to be nice and uh
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fluffy on the edges like it should be
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grab a little bit of flour and just kick
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it around in the pan so that it coats
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the butter
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now we're going to combine our wet and
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our dry and give it a nice
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mix get those perfect even layers i'm
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actually going to take the cake strips
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off pour the batter in and then measure
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it out with a kitchen scale to make sure
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each way is the same
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then put the strips back on and then
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bake them
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now we're reattaching our cake strips to
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two of the pans
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and they're going to go into the oven
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i will tell you that sometimes when
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you're using cake strips you have to
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increase the bake time a bit because
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you're cooling the outside so just give
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it a few more minutes just take it out
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test the center to see if it's springy
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and you can also watch the edges because
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they should be pulling away from the
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sides
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these are going to go into the oven at
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340 fahrenheit for about 35 to 40
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minutes depending
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okay so my cakes are out of the oven and
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i have to tell you
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look how sad this is this is the naked
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one without the cake strips it's all you
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see how brown and
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stunted and slow and not happy it is
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let's take it out here
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yeah
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look at that color
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i mean it smells good but do you see how
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this is like
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it's like not as fluffy as it should be
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like look at this dome do you see that
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dome
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that's not cool you have to like cut it
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down it's like a waste now you have
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crumbs okay
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sorry i sacrificed you
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next
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the wilton
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cake strips
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so you can see
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i'll flip it over so it'll be fair
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so now
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you should be able to see
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nice flat layers
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crazy dome not cool and here we have our
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tinfoil version and you can see it baked
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up nice and flat and
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it's still really soft so both ways work
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really well i'm going to tell you the
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tinfoil one doesn't last forever you get
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like five bakes and it kind of
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disintegrates so i don't know if you can
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see this but
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this is the naked version and you can
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see like i feel it i don't know if you
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can see how like hard the edges
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this is the cake strip version
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and this is the other cake strip version
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whether or not you're going to buy cake
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strips make your own out of tin foil or
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fabric or whatever else you want i hope
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you give this technique a try because it
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really improves the quality of your bake
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your cake will rise up more it'll be
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softer and you'll have a nice flat top
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which is so easy to decorate with no
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more cutting
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