Tips: What does ‘steam bake’ mean?
August 23rd, 2010.
Categories: All, Baked, Dessert, Tips
In baking most (or nearly all) of the cheesecakes, it is often required to ‘steam bake’ the cake, so that the cake won’t be too dry. So, what does steam bake mean, and how to do that? This is also another question that I have received often, and I have asked many times in the beginning too!
Steam cake basically means that you bake the cake in an oven, together with water –> by placing the cake tin into a tray of water before inserting into the oven.
The tricky part is, most of our cake tin used for cheesecake is loose base. This means, if we put it into a tray of water, water can sip in, and damage the cake!
Most book would ask you to wrap the cake tin base with tin foil. I tried that, but it often leaks. Then, decided this is the best method:
The easiest solution is: Just put the loose base cake tin into a slightly larger solid base cake tin, before placing them onto a tray of water!
Example above: 8″ loose base tin was placed into a 9″ non-loose base cake tin. Then the whole cake tin was placed into a 10″x10″ (or 11″x11″) tray with water, before inserting to oven.
Happy trying!
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