The filtrate loss should be low enough to prevent excessive mud cake thickness and to reduce the chances of differential pressure sticking.
Be generous with the syrup here – it may seem excessive, but the cake soaks it up and firms as it cools.
It also reduces gluten formation because although this is vital to the structure of the cake, excessive beating creates too much gluten, resulting in a cake with a heavy, bready texture.
Most of the desserts - pecan pie, apple pie, chocolate decadence, chocolate-marzipan cake - had the excessive gooeyness and sugar-overload of commercial products, and could easily be skipped.
You can offset the excessive sugar by accompanying the cake with the healthier fruits that the Very Hungry Caterpillar chomps his way through in the earliest days – one apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries and five oranges.
This shows the ability of polymer beads to fill the pores in the mud cake, and thus prevents excessive amount of filtrate loss.
There isn't an excessive amount of buttercream on these cakes – just enough to cap each one.
Chinese authorities announced that they destroyed nearly two tons of Ikea chocolate cake because it contained an excessive amount of coliform bacteria, which is found in fecal matter.
If you first serve a pale jade soup and finish with a wickedly rich chocolate mousse cake, you have created a dinner, without excessive labor, that is a simple celebration in itself.
The Shanghai quarantine bureau in China said it had destroyed 1,872 kilos (4,100lbs) of chocolate almond cake imported by Ikea that it said had excessive levels of coliform bacteria.
