Burnt Christmas Cake!
Asked on 30 Nov 2020 by Mellywoo
I removed my Christmas cake from the oven tonight after resisting the urge to look before 4 hours was up, I fear it is burnt despite following the recipe to the letter with the exception of light brown sugar as opposed to dark brown. I made sure I gave it extra protection with a deep lining parchment, an extra double layer of parchment around tin and a double layer on top too. 140c for 4 hours was obviously too much time or too high temperature for my cake.
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Hello,
Did you bake it on the lowest shelf of the oven on a conventional setting (top and bottom heat, not fan)? If you did it may be that your oven is running at a higher temperature.
Kind regards
Lindsey
I baked on lowest shelf, fan oven at 140 as recipe stated. Wouldn’t gas mark 1 though actually convert though to only 130 ?
We always do 140C for gas mark 1.
When a recipe calls for 140C on the lowest shelf, when using a fan oven, we’d do 115C – any shelf.
Kind regards
Lindsey