Made a panacke-inspired cake for my daughter's 3rd birthday! Loved the design.
It was a browned butter cake with a homemade salted caramel filling/drizzle and a salted caramel buttercream frosting.
Sadly, the cake itself was SO dry.
Luckily ice cream fixed that issue…
But! I need good cake recipes for future birthday cakes! I want moist, dense cakes, pretty please.
by Minute_Grade_5472
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Wow that is so cute!!
Those look so real and good I’d actually be sad they weren’t real pancakes.
You did such a great job. I thought this was a stack of pancakes at first haha
it is cake? whoa! nice job!
Maybe a syrup soak could help? Burnt sugar syrup would work well with this recipe
I love a good reveal when we get to see the cake sliced into. This did not disappoint. It’s so creative and looks delicious! 🥞
ETA: I’m sorry it turned out dry. It looks really good in the photos.
Preppy kitchen has a GREAT vanilla layer cake recipe, and generally Sally (sallysbakingaddiction) has really good recipes as well! (with the caviat that they need way more salt. I recommend doubling the salt in her recipes)
A trick I discovered recently to get super moist cake layers, is to wrap the layers in plastic wrap/cling wrap while they’re still warm, and then freeze them before unwrapping and assembling your cake. After baking, I like to let my cakes cool for 10 minutes in the pans before turning them out and wrapping them. I’ve used this trick a few times now and don’t ever see myself going back honestly, it really works wonders!
excellent job! the realistic details down to the little holes are impeccable. i thought it was a stack of pancakes 🥞 until I saw what i believe to be is the caramel drip on top. if it was darker and thinner, it would have looked identical to pancakes.
The holes along the edges of the “pancakes” is such a fantastic fucking detail omg. So freaking good.
Wow, simply wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is SO creative! The execution is amazing.
Amazing
That is so cool
This is so cool!!
Woah this is insane! It looks like a giant attack of pancakes. You got the butter pats perfect too. Love it!
You did an amazing job!
This is so creative! As for keeping it moist, did you cut the cake after storing it uncovered in the fridge? Because that would definitely have a drying effect. The height is a challenge, but I think even a box over it would help.
Not a cake recipe, but a trick: what some people do is add syrup (or sweetened milk) to the cake layers themselves. You can add all sorts of other flavors that way too. Cherry syrup or orange to a chocolate cake, maybe a spiced syrup for when you’re doing more grown up flavors!
I imagine if you ever try to tackle a cereal milk cake you can do it with some cereal milk 🙂
You should post this in r/cakes too. I think they’d love to see it
Do you ship to New York!? 😍😍
question does it taste like pancakes??
wow!
not sure i agree with that part
How did you make it look like pancakes?!