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Step 3Making the Scratch Cake
Now, while the other cakes are cooling, you can start making your very own, homemade cake!
Again, remember to get all your ingredients out before hand.
Preheat the oven to 350 F (or 176 C for you metric people).
In a medium/large bowl, "cream" together the sugar and butter. Creaming them means to beat them together with an electric beater till they're creamy and white in apperance. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Next, stir/beat in the vanilla. In a seperate dry bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa and mix together until uniform throughout.
Now I mentioned the baking soda before and you're probably like "Brian, when do I use that?" Well, in the Portal recipe, it included both baking powder and soda. The recipe I found online to make a homemade cake only included baking powder. I've made this cake twice using baking powder, but never with baking soda. If you want to be adventurous and try it, be my guest and mix it in with the dry ingredients. If it comes out fine, post in the comments and I'll change the recipe. Just because I never did it doesn't mean you shouldn't ;)
Now, combine the dry mix with the creamed mixture and mix well. It should be pretty thick, so don't expect much. Now, add water until the batter is pretty smooth and pourable. You don't want it to be so thick it stalls your beater (it's happened), but you don't want it to be super runny either. With some practice, you'll find the water sweet spot ;) I find it to be around 3/4 cup to 1 1/4 cups.
Now, your other cakes should be done, so carefully remove one of them from its pan. Wash the pan real quick with some soap and water and dry. If you have a 3rd cake pan seperate from the other two, ignore that last part. Grease and flour your cake pan and pour in your batter.
Bake your cake for 30-40 minutes. I usually find that it takes a little longer. Remember the toothpick test! Last time I made this, I was in too much of a rush, removed it too soon, and when I went to cut it, the inside was still batter.
Once done, allow to cool. This could take a while, so go watch some TV or play a game for a bit (might I suggest Portal?).
Again, remember to get all your ingredients out before hand.
Preheat the oven to 350 F (or 176 C for you metric people).
In a medium/large bowl, "cream" together the sugar and butter. Creaming them means to beat them together with an electric beater till they're creamy and white in apperance. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Next, stir/beat in the vanilla. In a seperate dry bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa and mix together until uniform throughout.
Now I mentioned the baking soda before and you're probably like "Brian, when do I use that?" Well, in the Portal recipe, it included both baking powder and soda. The recipe I found online to make a homemade cake only included baking powder. I've made this cake twice using baking powder, but never with baking soda. If you want to be adventurous and try it, be my guest and mix it in with the dry ingredients. If it comes out fine, post in the comments and I'll change the recipe. Just because I never did it doesn't mean you shouldn't ;)
Now, combine the dry mix with the creamed mixture and mix well. It should be pretty thick, so don't expect much. Now, add water until the batter is pretty smooth and pourable. You don't want it to be so thick it stalls your beater (it's happened), but you don't want it to be super runny either. With some practice, you'll find the water sweet spot ;) I find it to be around 3/4 cup to 1 1/4 cups.
Now, your other cakes should be done, so carefully remove one of them from its pan. Wash the pan real quick with some soap and water and dry. If you have a 3rd cake pan seperate from the other two, ignore that last part. Grease and flour your cake pan and pour in your batter.
Bake your cake for 30-40 minutes. I usually find that it takes a little longer. Remember the toothpick test! Last time I made this, I was in too much of a rush, removed it too soon, and when I went to cut it, the inside was still batter.
Once done, allow to cool. This could take a while, so go watch some TV or play a game for a bit (might I suggest Portal?).
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Aug 25, 2010. 1:58 PMrick65000
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The baking soda fluffs the cake. The baking powder keeps the cake from exploding. Baking soda and baking powder are referred to as leavenging agents at this pro site. http://tiny.cc/tkwa8
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