Dough

I mentioned in an earlier post that I was going to make an apple-streusel cake. The recipe is actually called Apple Cinnamon Surprise, and its from The Bread Bible, by Rose Levy Beranbaum, who is apparently one of the gurus of baking. This is quite a thick book, and its got lots of very detailed information. For example, the last paragraph of the recipe says:

6: Cool the bread. Remove the bread from the oven and set it on a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes. Place a folded kitchen towel on top of a flat plate and cover it with plastic wrap. Oil the plastic wrap. Loosen the sides of the bread with a small metal spatula, and invert it onto the plate. Grease a wire rack and reinvert the bread onto it, so that it is right side up. Cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours, before wrapping airtight.

Thats a lot of detail. Me, I left it in the bread pan for a while, then I ran a knife around the edges, flipped it onto my outstretched hand, put the pan down, held the bread, and lowered it onto the rack. Done.

This is probably why my breads and cakes never look like theirs!