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However, you can get all kinds of creative with a soak, allowing it to very much enhance and complement the dominant flavor of your cake layers. You can incorporate citrus zest and juice, liquor or liqueurs, vanilla or other extracts, honey or maple syrup, or even infuse herbs into your soak for added oomph.
Just add 1 tbs of orange extract and 1 tbs grated orange peel to the batter before mixing Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 13×9-inch pan. Prepare and bake cake mix according to package directions. While cake is baking, combine powdered sugar, orange juice, melted butter, and water in a medium bowl.
For her famous Milk Bar Birthday Cake, Christina Tosi dampens each layer with a mixture of milk and vanilla extract as she stacks them. Claire Saffitz recommends trimming a cake layer first (rather than poking it) so that the syrup can more easily penetrate the interior crumb.
However, in the context of treating cake layers, simple syrup is referred to as a soak. The name is a tiny bit misleading, as it’s really more of a drizzle. Or in my kitchen, a brushing.
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