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This is how starch is used in baking

To anticipate it right away: Under no circumstances is it a must to use starch in baking, even if there are countless (mostly older) Recipes suggest. You can simply replace the stated amount of starch with flour, which you should sift through to make it more powdery. Many newer recipes, if they were not published by the corn starch manufacturers, no longer mention corn starch as an ingredient at all.

  • Starch or cornstarch is a product that is made from potatoes or Corn, but is also obtained from wheat and is sold in a very fine powder form as relevant branded products.
  • This is actually pure, very white starch, because the other components are extracted during the manufacturing process. Normal wheat flour also contains a large amount of starch, but also other components.
  • Mostly strength is given as it is mixed with water and subsequent boiling swells, to thicken sauces or desserts (groats, pudding) used.
  • But countless cake recipes also require - in addition to flour - a certain amount of cornstarch. Since the starch swells when baking, it ensures that the dough is well cohesive, for example in a sponge cake or a batter. In addition, the cake nice and fine sand, because the cornstarch is much finer than the flour used.
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  • If it is only 1-2 tablespoons, you can simply replace this amount with custard powder if you do not have any cornstarch available.
  • Especially fillings, e.g. B. for cheese cakes, require a certain amount of cornstarch so that they develop the necessary firmness during baking - cheesecake aid also works like this! In this case, make sure that you stir the starch with a little liquid so that no lumps form before you add it to the cheese filling.
  • In some recipes, however, the amount of cornstarch is almost the same as the amount of flour. Use purchased products here and always mix flour and cornstarch thoroughly. Also add the baking powder to this mixture at the same time.

Sand cake - a fine-sand classic with strength

  1. Mix the softened butter to a creamy consistency.
  2. Mix the flour, cornstarch and baking powder together well.
  3. Add the mixture to the butter spoon by spoon and stir in.
  4. Now they follow Eggs, the sugar, the rum and the lemon peel that you gradually add to that dough give and mix in.
  5. Stir the dough well with a whisk (very strenuous!) Or with an electric mixer, it should be nice and creamy and frothy.
  6. Brush the springform pan (or the king cake pan) with a little fat.
  7. Pour in the batter.
  8. Heat the oven to 180 ° C and put the cake pan in it immediately.
  9. Bake the sand cake for just under an hour. You may want to try using a wooden stick to see whether the cake is cooked through on the inside.
  10. Powder the cooled sand cake with the icing sugar.
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