Why grease and flour

And if this still seems like too much of a hassle, you can always stick to angel food cake. This light and airy egg white-based cake must be baked in an ungreased, unfloured pan so the batter can rise.

Or maybe try your hand at pie baking. By Lisa Cericola. Save FB Tweet More. All rights reserved. Close Sign in. Greasing your tin is a must for almost all cake baking egg based cakes are the exception.

Check out the video above to see how to grease a cake tin. Greasing will help your cake release from the pan. But the step of flouring also helps when you have a cake with a high sugar content, when greasing alone will not be enough to stop the gripping powers of caramelised sugar.

It also helps when moulds are particularly detailed with nooks and crannies that might be difficult for a cake to let go of. This allows you to lift the sides of the pan and leave your baked goods resting on the pan base. It's most useful for things like cheesecakes, which are otherwise extremely difficult to remove from a pan. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 5. Not Helpful 14 Helpful 5. If you want, but it only takes a couple of minutes to grease pans the day you make bread. You could grease them when the dough is rising.

Not Helpful 3 Helpful 4. Here's a tip, save the packaging used to wrap the butter, you can use it when you need to grease your pan. Sometimes I don't bother flouring a pan, but just to be on the safe side, dump in a tablespoon of flour and tap it along the pan. Then tap out the excess flour. Not Helpful 3 Helpful 1. The cheesecake recipe I am using tells me to grease the pan.

Can I just use butter to do that? Not Helpful 2 Helpful 3. Do you need to grease and flour the sides of the cake pan? I didn't and the cake didn't rise on the sides of the cake pan. The greasing and the flouring of the pan isn't to help the cake rise, it is to keep the cake from sticking to the pan and making sure the outside of the cake doesn't burn.

Using baking powder in the cake makes it rise because it causes air bubbles. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 2. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 1. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Some recipes will just ask you to flour the pan, but they still want you to grease it first.

Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published. Related wikiHows How to. How to. About This Article. Co-authored by:. Co-authors: Updated: May 6, Article Summary X To grease and flour a pan, choose an agent for greasing, such as butter or shortening, and cut a piece of wax paper large enough to hold about 1 tablespoon of the grease. Italiano: Ungere e Infarinare una Teglia.

Deutsch: Eine Backform fetten und mehlen. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read , times. I do a lot of baking. I actually thought the spray flour from a can was easier, but it is not. I kept the melted butter atop the warm stove and brushed accordingly, then floured.

The best part was the cleanup. It was much easier doing the dish in hot soapy water than using that spray stuff that stuck all over everything it touched. More reader stories Hide reader stories. Did this article help you? Cookies make wikiHow better. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy.

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