A lesson learned

[ksmith]

When the recipe calls for "cake flour", they really really mean it.

Freezing for 3-4 hours and freezing overnight are not the same thing.

Comments

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

Melted chocolate and cake flour, indeed!

I never knew there were different kinds of flour, either, until I started watching Good Eats. Similarly, I never knew that we should weigh our dry ingredients (as the Europeans do) instead of go by volume, because the density changes with humidity.

Baking is really chemistry, and a small screw up can lead to spectacular failures (as you have discovered). Regular cooking is much more forgiving. I'm always impressed by all the old ladies who learned to bake without measuring anything!