The Chiffon Cake Bake Off

Your early access to the results 🥇

Thrilled to be sharing a sneak peek of the chiffon cake bake off results today! This one really surprised me—I went in feeling ambivalent about chiffon cake and came out LOVING IT! So fluffy, so light, and in some cases, surprisingly rich.

This was also a really fun bake off in that every recipe felt like it had a distinct character (vs. some bake offs, like sourdough, where I’m frankly grasping to find different adjectives to describe very similar flavor/textures).

In any case, I hope this inspires you to make as many chiffon cakes as I feel inspired to make!

EVENT ALERT: In case you missed it, I’m headed to DC this weekend and will be hosting another community bake off in partnership with Capitol Jill. You can find details and grab tickets here! (You can read about the NYC community bake off I recently co-hosted here.)

What prepping for the chiffon bake off looked like

Here’s a little insight into what my prep/bake day schedule looked like. Based bake times of each recipe, I create this type of schedule as a guide but I always deviate during the actual baking process:

Very little prep was required for this bake off. I probably spent 1.5 hours scaling dry ingredients on Thursday and then dove in on Friday! I ended up baking from 8am to around 2pm and that was only because I had to redo two cakes. The first was Nicola Lamb’s cake (do you ever pull out a baked cake and realize you forgot to add all the dry ingredients?? I haven’t done this in…maybe ever) and the second was Sheldo’s Kitchen (which I started to box only to realize half the cake slice was coming off on my fingers with every slice and realized I simply had to rebake it because it was underbaked).

On the plus side of having to rebake Sheldo’s Kitchen at 3:55pm when tasters were due to pick up their boxes at 5pm, I realized that you can make a chiffon cake batter in 6 minutes or less if you hustle!

The Chiffon Cake Bake Off Results

Below is your premium subscriber bonus sneak peek at the bake off results (the full blog post will be published in the next week or two).