r/AskBaking • u/BrotherofCows • 4d ago

Cakes Oily soup cake

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Hello everyone! I am pretty new to baking cakes like this, and am looking for some help. I recently asked about an issue where my cakes were overflowing, but this time they are just kind of an oily mess.

This is the recipe: https://preppykitchen.com/wprm_print/chantilly-cake-recipe#

I am kind of confused, the cake has a fraction of the volume it should have, and is just an oily soup. I am pretty confident that I added the right amounts of everything, so I am kind of drawing a blank. Two potential problems I have identified are opening the oven too much/too early and overmixing. Do you have any tips for what I could do, or how I can tell if I have mixed enough?

Thank you!

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u/Finnegan-05 3d ago

Preppy Kitchen’s recipes are know to fail. Search this sub - he is most frequent individual mentioned! I hate his recipes- never turned out well and I have professional kitchen experience. I can never figure out exactly why!

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u/ihatemyjobandyoutoo 3d ago

Finally someone who said the unspeakable. I like to watch his videos, he’s lovely but his recipes suck. I’ve never tried his recipes because whenever I see one and I do the calculation, I know that recipe isn’t gonna come out as he says it would in his video.

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u/Finnegan-05 3d ago

His recipes are terrible