Ultimate Cake Recipes (2024)

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What is Michelle Obama's favorite cake? ›

Few things will top of a meal better than Michelle Obama's Favorite Red Velvet Cake from Delish.com.

Using too few eggs will make your desserts dense, but using too many will make them rubbery. The explanation for this lies in the fact that eggs are made up of protein. As Fine Cooking explains, when the protein in eggs combines with the protein in flour, they produce the overall structure of the baked good.

Queen Elizabeth's Favorite Cake: Chocolate Biscuit Cake - Chef Darren McGrady | The Royal Chef.

A Reine de Saba cake is a French, rich, sophisticated, chocolate cake made with ground almonds, rum, meringue and of course chocolate. It's topped with a chocolate ganache and can be decorated with almond slices. It's said to be one of the first French cakes that Julia Child ever ate and fell in love with!

Milk (or coffee, or beer...)

If you aren't into milk, try swapping other liquids like juice (best with vanilla/yellow cake mixes), coffee or stout beer (especially for chocolate cake mixes) to add some extra flavor to your cake.

Martina says, “Late in the mixing stage, eggs will incorporate better if you lightly beat them before adding to the batter. The finished cake may be slightly shorter than expected, but its flavor and tenderness shouldn't be affected.” For egg-leavened cakes, the eggs are crucial.

Most box cake recipes will tell you to add water to the mix. Instead, try adding milk using the same proportions. This will make the cake richer and creamier because it ups the fat content. You can even use buttermilk here for a pleasant tang.

Texture:Cakes made with oil tend to be moister and have a more tender crumb. Oil coats the flour proteins better than butter, resulting in a softer texture. Cakes made with butter can have a richer flavor and a slightly firmer texture. Butter contributes to a more traditional and dense cake structure.

Just one more egg will add extra moisture, fat, and a little protein, which means the cake will be softer and less likely to overbake and dry out in the oven.

How do you make a cake taste like a bakery cake? ›

Step 1: Look at the directions on the cake mix. Step 2: Add one more egg (or add 2 if you want it to be very rich). Step 3: Use melted butter instead of oil and double the amount. Step 4: Instead of water, use whole milk.

And since pizza is "hands down" her favorite food, Obama told The Hill that she makes it a weekly treat. "Almost every Friday I'll eat, like, a veggie pizza on wheat," she said.

It might be because we've worked with Buckingham Palace recently on designing on Platinum Jubilee collection, but we've got the inside track on Her Majesty's favourite cake - the Chocolate Biscuit Cake.

Toronto-based Gampp, who goes by Yo and is often called "The Beyonce of Cakes," is approachable and fun, and so is her loyal fan base of YoYos.

Chili is his number one recipe

Obama has a whole list of favorite foods that have been made public, but one of the recipes that stands at the very top is chili.