Comments on: Why are there sometimes large holes inside of cake? https://bakeschool.com/large-holes-inside-of-cake/ A website dedicated to baking and the science of baking Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:48:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Charlotte https://bakeschool.com/large-holes-inside-of-cake/comment-page-2/#comment-67099 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:48:36 +0000 https://bakeschool.com/?p=5575#comment-67099 Thank you for finally explaining how gluten affects cake baking! I feel like this was the missing piece in my toolbelt.

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By: Zehra Vigna https://bakeschool.com/large-holes-inside-of-cake/comment-page-2/#comment-55553 Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:43:33 +0000 https://bakeschool.com/?p=5575#comment-55553 Thank you very much for your article. I really enjoyed reading it and learned a lot. Can you please answer my following questions :

1) If in making cakes the gluten is our enemy, why then we don't use "flour without gluten" ?

2) Sometimes, I see on youtube, famous baker mix eggs/sugar with an electrical mixer during 5 min until the batter doubles its volume. Is the reason for that to make enter the air ? As we also use baking powder which will rise the cake, why we want also to make enter the air in the butter ?

3) In most of the muffins they just mixt the ingredients, without beating eggs/sugar during 5 min. Why ?

4) Why and when do we need to mix rigorously, during 5 min or more, eggs/sugar until it doubles its volume ?

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By: Steve https://bakeschool.com/large-holes-inside-of-cake/comment-page-1/#comment-50662 Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:47:03 +0000 https://bakeschool.com/?p=5575#comment-50662 I have recently baked Bara Brith where tunnels have formed. The recipe calls for self raising flour. Unfortunately I live in a country where they don’t have self raising flour. Therefore I have had to determine the ratio of general purpose flour and baking powder. The mix is quite stodgy and in my eyes not over worked. Have you a good suggestion to get around this?

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By: Al https://bakeschool.com/large-holes-inside-of-cake/comment-page-1/#comment-50377 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 07:15:00 +0000 https://bakeschool.com/?p=5575#comment-50377 In reply to Ching.

This interesting because I actually want to make a cake with lots of interconnected air pockets. My grandmother used (~40 years ago) to make a chocolate cake that had enough air in it that she could pour a chocolate sauce into the cake. I remember wanting a piece when she finished baking the cake and she told me that it would be a while because she still wasn't done yet. I watched as she slowly poured the chocolate sauce (?) onto the cake and let it soak in. After the entire thing cooled the sauce thickened in the cake. The cake looked like a chocolate sponge filled with chocolate.

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By: Terri https://bakeschool.com/large-holes-inside-of-cake/comment-page-1/#comment-43495 Wed, 14 Sep 2022 02:38:31 +0000 https://bakeschool.com/?p=5575#comment-43495 In reply to Christina.

I, too, am having problems with my Bundt pan cakes. I made a maple walnut cake & ended up with a hole (like a tunnel) all the way around the middle of the cake. Tonight I made the poppyseed cake recipe on the jar of Baker’s filling. I have made this cake in this pan numerous times, & never had any problems, until tonight when I have ended up with the hole in the center of the cake all the way through I am ready to quit baking.

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By: Janice https://bakeschool.com/large-holes-inside-of-cake/comment-page-1/#comment-39288 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 23:29:41 +0000 https://bakeschool.com/?p=5575#comment-39288 In reply to Ching.

Hi, That's an interesting question: are you saying there are holes in the ganache layer? It could be that you incorporated too much air into it as it was thickening, then the bubbles popped when you poured it on the cake, leaving holes?

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By: Ching https://bakeschool.com/large-holes-inside-of-cake/comment-page-1/#comment-39055 Thu, 14 Apr 2022 04:16:59 +0000 https://bakeschool.com/?p=5575#comment-39055 What causes my moist chocolate cake holes after pouring the ganache? I hope you can help me

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By: Deanna https://bakeschool.com/large-holes-inside-of-cake/comment-page-1/#comment-38116 Fri, 04 Mar 2022 23:16:42 +0000 https://bakeschool.com/?p=5575#comment-38116 If I bang a cake pan to release air and gas bubbles too much (i.e., too long, too hard), what will happen to the cake? What evidence will I see when the cake baking is complete, that will indicate that I over-banged it?

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By: Emily https://bakeschool.com/large-holes-inside-of-cake/comment-page-1/#comment-22858 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 08:04:56 +0000 https://bakeschool.com/?p=5575#comment-22858 Thanks for the ideas. I've never heard of banging the cake in the tin before baking so I'm going to try that next time.

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By: Emily https://bakeschool.com/large-holes-inside-of-cake/comment-page-1/#comment-22859 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 08:04:56 +0000 https://bakeschool.com/?p=5575#comment-22859 Thanks for the ideas. I've never heard of banging the cake in the tin before baking so I'm going to try that next time.

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