Do Your Cakes Turn Out Hard and Lumpy? Learn How to Make Cake Soft and Navigate the Wonderful World of Baking with 3 Cake Recipes (2019)

You need to ensure that you have the correct temperatures of each ingredient you are using in your cake. You might have not thought about this before. Generally, people only concentrate on the baking temperature. But your flour and eggs also should be at room temperature while preparing your cake batter. The butter should be warm so that it mixes easily. Using cold eggs might transfer the coolness to the batter, making it cold and not fit to make a soft cake.

Did you know that you could use buttermilk in your cakes? Buttermilks have high acidic content due to which the cake becomes soft as the buttermilk breaks down the gluten in the flour. Buttermilks often work best along with a little baking soda, so if your recipe does not have baking soda, you can add a little bit along with buttermilk.

Now there are various theories to this. Some people believe that mixing the flour batter vigorously for some time helps you incorporate air in the batter, resulting in a super moist cake. But a proven method is not mixing the batter but folding it properly. You need to make figure 8 in motion while folding. For a soft cake, also be careful not to over-mix the batter as this will kill the air bubbles, resulting in a hard cake.

You don’t need to buy cake flour to have the right flour for your cake. Most cakes require all-purpose flour which can be easily made at home. You can add a bit of corn starch to your all-purpose flour that helps to make the cake spongy. If you are buying an all-purpose flour from the market, it will already have corn starch and a bit of baking soda that makes your cakes super moist and spongy.

Sifting the cake adds air and helps to make your cake super light and fluffy. A lot many times, you tend to omit this step thinking it to be unnecessary. But it is always advisable to sift the flour, baking soda and baking powder so as to mix the dry ingredients well and also to make your cake super spongy and fluffy.

Your cakes might turn out to be very heavy and hard if you beat the eggs in the wrong way. The correct method is to add 1/3rd of the egg into the butter and sugar mixture and beat them with an electronic mixer. Later, you can add the remaining eggs to the batter, until the mixture looks very slimy.

If you need to store your cake in the refrigerator or you plan to frost the cake, it might dry out and not remain very moist. But you can prevent this by adding a sugar syrup in the ready cake to make it soft and spongy. If you intend to add sugar syrup later, you can reduce the amount of sugar while preparing the batter. Once the cake is ready and cooled, pour or spray the sugar syrup over the cake slices before frosting it.

If you want to make your cakes soft, you need to whisk sugar and butter for long until the mixture becomes fluffy and pale yellow. This happens because of the incorporation of air. This process is known as creaming. It is an essential tip for making your cakes soft and all professional bakers do this step before adding the dry ingredients.

If you do not let the cake set and cool before frosting, you might end up with a dry and hard cake. There is always a right time to do the frosting. After you remove the cake from the oven, you should place it on the cooling rack and let it cool for at least an hour before you begin frosting.

Baking powder is a leavening agent required to rise the cake properly. Too much of baking powder will not only taste terrible but will make the cake rise uncontrollably. Adding too little baking powder in the cake will make it crumbly and very hard.

So now that you know some basic tips to make a soft cake, here we have listed some easy cake recipes which turn out amazingly soft. First, try your hand at these recipes to see if your cakes turn out soft or not and then you can tweak your recipes a bit to get soft and spongy cakes too.

This very easy vanilla cake is as soft as a feather and also very easy to make.

This one below is the recipe of a basic chocolate cake, but the recipe is a little different than the regular chocolate sponge cake. This one comes out absolutely moist and spongy.

Now this one is an award winning pineapple sponge cake recipe you must try.