This scratch baking blog, featuring baker and cookbook author Rose Levy Beranbaum, is an online journal of Rose’s baking adventures, cooking tips, and scratch recipes. Her cookbooks include Heavenly Cakes, Bread Bible, Pie and Pastry Bible, Rose’s Christmas Cookies, Passion for Chocolate and The Cake Bible.
Soaking Syrup for Layer Cakes
DAVID QUESTION
Does a soaking syrup to well on a devil's food cake?
ROSE REPLY
A small sprinkling of syrup will work, but I'm like a sponge cake, layer cakes become soggy/pasty with too much syrup.
From the kitchen of Rose on 02.07.06 at 3:16 PM in Cake Questions