Friends fans, raise your hands 🙋‍♀️), you may be able to use the parts of the cake that are fully cooked. The bakeware is non-stick because it doesn’t absorb any oils or grease – it leaves them on the surface, which helps foods to simply lift out of the pan with the slickness of the oil. As you do, go over any remaining residue or discoloration with a soft-bristled dish brush or the rough side of a kitchen sponge.

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Once you’ve reached the bottom, simply let go with one hand and pull the line out the other side of the cake. There’s a bakery in Suffolk, where I live, that sells 100 per cent Ecuadorian dark chocolate, which is phenomenal. Sometimes you’ll have chosen the right tool and made your cuts as mindfully as possible, and you still end up with frosting smears or errant crumbs. You won't be serving cold cake — this is a brief enough rest that the cake won’t become chilled all the way through. If you’ve taken the cake out of the oven and left it to cool and it sinks in the middle, that’s usually a sign that the cake is undercooked.NOTE You could also use dark chocolate with 75 per cent cocoa solids in this recipe if you find 85 per cent too bitter. You’ll end up with extra Date Caramel Sauce to serve on the side, or keep for another use (such as with pancakes the next day). I touch the top to see how it feels and if I feel like it’s just about ready, I’ll do the toothpick test (with the cake still in the oven). By letting chocolate claim its rightful place as the star of the show, these decadent-tasting clean eating desserts maximize rich chocolate flavor without overpowering this superfood's heart-healthy properties with extra fat and sugar.

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You can make this cake in one cake pan and then slice it across and sandwich it with frosting, but I prefer to bake 3 thinner cakes with the same batter amount and then sandwich them all together.

Once you’ve made your cake and it’s cooled down, the sponge itself unfrosted will keep for up to 3 days in an airtight cake tin, in a cupboard. I could watch cake videos all day, but just wasn’t sure what my readers thought about that length of a video. The first time I used this slender knife to slice our Classic Birthday Cake, I literally cried out with delight as I removed the first slice: not a crumb out of place!

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The results of her kitchen experiments are still just as sumptuous as ordinary cakes, but with a little thought and some replacements made here and there, they’re also a little better for you. Henrietta Inman, author of Clean Cakes, felt similar when she started to question all the traditional sugary pastries and bakes she was trained to make.Sometimes if the cake is 1-2 degrees less, I’ll remove it from the oven, as it will continue to cook a bit more in the tin anyway.