WHY IS MY CAKE DRY
Baking really is a science, and there are a lot of things that go awry when making a cake
Questions
Why is my cake dry?
What might have happened:
Answers
The cake layers were baked too long.
The recipe doesn’t have enough moisture or needs simple syrup.
How to prevent this in the future:
Try to take your cake layers out a few minutes earlier, or as soon as a toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs. If the toothpick comes out totally clean, your cake might already be overbaked. Remember that your cake layers will continue to bake for a few minutes once they’re out of the oven as they cool in the pans
Different recipes make different types of cake. For instance, vanilla cake recipe is a butter cake recipe that’s quite moist and doesn’t need simple syrup. But sponge cake recipes bake up quite a bit fluffier and drier because they use a lot eggs. These cake recipes are designed to bake that way, and are then supposed to be doused in simple syrup to add moisture after they’re baked.