Coating fruit before adding to a cake
I recently had an apple cake at a restaurant that was delicious. It tasted like a gooey-er version of a spice cake with apples and coconuts. I think I can recreate this at home using a box spice cake mix. I have three questions. I know to keep the fruit spaced through-out the cake, I want to dust it with flour. Since it's a box mix, I'll probably use either plain or create a spiced flour to dust the apple bits. Will that flour cause me to increase the liquid in the cake? Will it make the apples taste flour-y? And should I cook the apples (at least partially) before dusting and adding or will the cook enough when baking the cake?
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As commented by SAJ14SAJ, you can dust the apple pieces with some of the cake mix. There is no need to change the proportions asked for by the cake mix box. You also do not need to cook the apples ahead, but you can slice them quite thinly or cut in small pieces to ensure that they are cooked enough.
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Simply toss the fruit in a small bowl with a small scoop of flour and add the lightly covered fruit to your cake mix and follow the rest of the recipe as normal. The light flour coating helps the fruit to 'stick' to the cake mixture better, stopping them from sinking.How do you add fresh fruit to a cake mix?
Adding fruit to a cake makes it seem more elegant, and there are many ways to incorporate it into a box cake mix. One way is to add a few spoonfuls of fruit preserves into the batter and swirl it around before baking. Chocolate cake will quickly turn into chocolate-raspberry cake.How do you prepare fresh fruit for baking?
Dust fruit in flour first When baking with fresh fruit for loaf cakes, coffee cakes, muffins, and so on, dust the fruit lightly in all-purpose flour before adding it to the batter. This will help stop the fruit from sinking to the bottom during the baking process. This tip works with nuts and chocolate chips, too.How do you keep fruit from falling in a cake?
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How to Stop Fruit From Sinking to the Bottom of Cake. All you have to do is give all your goodies (raisins, cherries, blueberries, currants, etc) a light coating of flour before adding them into your dough or batters. It's just that easy!How to make EASY FRESH FRUIT GLAZE
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