Thursday, July 23, 2020

Fig loaf fully baked, yet "undercooked" centre?

So I made this recipe: https://leelalicious.com/earl-grey-tea-cake/

That I'd made before, but didn't add the earl grey or the glaze , and instead added 107gr of fresh figs, 55gr of dark chocolate and orange zest. Baked it for 45ish minutes at around 160-165°C, smelt fine and was beautifully golden, rose wonderfully, but the middle was a bit...sticky and doughy, like underbaked. Except it wasn't as all the pricking came clean.

It tastes fine, in fact, amazing, but I was wondering if I just added too many figs?

I just experimented and put it in a 175°C oven, covered in foil, for 20 mins (checking first at 5mins, then another 5, then 10) and it was STILL that weird, sticky in the centre. So wondering what was the cause, and if it was the figs, would reducing the amount to 50 or 60gr be good?



bon appetit

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