A intelligent hack to cease Christmas cake drying out was revealed on Jeremy Vine’s present by co-host Storm Huntley, and it’s so easy we will’t consider we’ve not carried out it this manner the complete time.
Apparently, we’ve all been slicing our muffins incorrectly all alongside.
Talking about all issues festive on Monday’s episode of the Channel 5 present, Storm determined to share a festive tip on find out how to slice your Christmas cake, whereas nonetheless retaining it recent and edible.
‘Mathematicians got here up with this,’ she defined.
‘The idea behind that is attempting to get little floor space out to the air so the cake can preserve its moisture.’
As she demonstrated find out how to reduce the Christmas cake – slicing a straight piece proper within the center – Storm continued: ‘So, as a substitute of doing our pie shapes, you now reduce from the centre level.’
Storm shared the right Christmas cake hack (Image: Channel 5)
Struggling to chop by way of the icing, the host laughed: ‘We have now bought one aspect carried out, now it suggests to get the opposite aspect carried out.
‘That is to maintain the moisture in.’
‘You are taking this slice out (the center slice), right here is the place the attention-grabbing bit is available in,’ she added.
‘To be able to cut back the floor space, you shut this up (the rest of the cake) and now it types a sealed unit so whenever you come again to it tomorrow, there’s no floor space to the air.’
As a result of we have now been doing all of it improper (Image: Channel 5)
Will you strive the festive hack? (Image: Channel 5)
If that isn’t sufficient, you can even save your self hours of cooking on Christmas Day by freezing everything.
Throughout a festive section on This Morning final month, TV chef and meals author Justine Pattison defined how one can prepare dinner your whole Christmas feast in an hour.
Not solely did she share a intelligent Christmas turkey hack however she additionally demonstrated a simple approach to put together roast potatoes and sprouts: as soon as once more by making ready and freezing them upfront, they are going to be prepared for the day.
Hey, presto!
The Jeremy Vine Present airs day by day on Channel 5 at 9.15am.
