Keep Your Cake Fresh With The Food Item Almost Everyone Already Has
Although you might feel tempted to eat your cake as quickly as possible, chances are, you might have some left over for a couple more days. There's just one problem: Cake dries out quickly, which leaves you with stale, crumbly cake instead of the moist cake you love.
Thankfully, there's an easy solution to your cake troubles, and it all lies in a food ingredient that you're pretty much guaranteed to find in your kitchen. Unlike some hacks, this cake freshness trick is completely doable, thanks to the ubiquity of the food you need to use to make it all happen. Once you discover this creative new way to use your sliced bread, you'll never again worry about stale cake. But how can bread of all things protect your cake from drying out? It's all in where you place it — and if you use this hack properly, everyone who tries your leftover cake will thank you.
How can bread keep cake from going stale?
If you don't mind sacrificing a couple of slices of bread, you can save your cake from staleness. This hack is simple, and because you probably use sliced bread on the daily, there's no need to worry about picking up any specialty products either.
Once you've sliced up your cake, the cake interior's exposure to moisture in the air will ultimately dry it out — unless you find a way to block the cake from being exposed. That's where the bread slices come into the picture. Take enough bread slices to completely cover each side of the exposed portion of the cake and use toothpicks to "pin" them up against the cake. Unfortunately for your poor bread, the slices will dry out, but they'll create a perfect "bread fortress" around your cake, transfer their moisture to the cake, and keep all of that coveted moisture in too. With the toothpicks holding the bread in place, there's no need to worry about the bread falling down and exposing the inside of the cake either. This quick, easy bread hack, which is blowing people's minds on Reddit, will ensure that your cake stays moist, even if it takes you a few days to finish eating it.
Other ways to keep your cake moist
Want moist cake without using up any of your sandwich bread? Don't worry — you can still make it happen.
One of the best ways to keep your cake from going stale is to make good use of plastic wrap. As soon as your cake is cool, wrap it in plastic wrap if you don't plan on eating it right away. Once you cut into the cake, keeping it moist becomes a little more tricky, but it's still possible. If you're a fan of frosting and don't mind a little extra on the cake, add a thin coat of icing to the exposed cake. The frosting will act as a "blanket" and keep the cake moist. If you don't frost the exposed sections, you can make sure that any exposed areas of the cake are covered in plastic wrap. If you don't have plastic wrap, that's not an issue. Simply cut off a thin sliver of cake before you serve it to remove the dry outer layer. You'll have the moistest slices ever — even a day or two after you first baked the cake.