Baking Help Needed I'm going to make a Flour Free Chocolate cake today that's a rolled cake. Normally when you make a jelly roll cake you sprinkle your tea towl with powdered sugar to keep the cake from sticking while it cools. Of course I don't want to use powdered sugar.
Any suggestions?
Re: Baking Help Needed Oil? Can you use oil to prevent sticking? I dunno. Not much of a cook here.
Re: Baking Help Needed You might try sifting some Splenda granular to make it finer and use that as your powdered sugar substitute. I don't see why that would not work as well as the regular powdered sugar.
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Re: Baking Help Needed Thanks for the quick replies, but no oil wouldn't work, and I don't think Splenda would either.
There's cornstarch in powdered sugar along with the sugar and the two together absorb the moisture coming off the hot cake to keep it from sticking to the towel.
I think Splenda would just disappear as though it was never there. I've been giving this some thought and I think I may try some chocolate shake mix and see how that works.
Thanks for the help, I'll let you know how it works.
Re: Baking Help Needed Better yet, try some cocoa powder (the unsweetened type) and I'll bet that will absorb the moisture.
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Re: Baking Help Needed Yes. I've used cocoa powder. I've also just used waxed paper without a tea towel. I haven't had any problem with the waxed paper sticking to the rolled cake.
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Re: Baking Help Needed Good idea, Maggie
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Re: Baking Help Needed Thanks for all the help guys.
Marcie, I used the cocoa and it worked very well, no sticking or anything.
It was a new recipe I was trying out and I don't like it. I'm hoping we'll go ahead and eat it, I hate throwing food away but I'll never make this again.
But, you never know until you try.
Re: Baking Help Needed That's true, you never know if you don't try it.
And look on the bright side, it wasn't a waste of time because you learned a new technique!
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