Forgot To Add Oil To The Cake - Now What??
Decorating By candygirl Updated 24 Apr 2014 , 5:40pm by Elpida
I made 2 1/4 sheet cakes for delivery tomorrow - one chocolate, one yellow cake. As I was putting the cakes into the oven, I realized I forgot to add the oil to yellow cake. Funny part is, the yellow cake without the oil rose nicely and looks perfect. The chocolate one sank and looks like a shriveled mess.
Can I serve the one without oil? Has anyone done this before? I do have time to make another one, but it looks so nice and pretty, I can't imagine it tastes bad, but not sure that's a risk I'm willing to take because it is for my friend's daughter's 1st birthday!
I am such a bonehead!
If you level it, taste some of the scraps. If it's a little dry, use some simple syrup, it should be ok. 
*sigh* this is all my husband's fault because he was watching Amazing Race last night and kept asking me to keep it down so I was trying to hurry. Next time, I'm kicking him out when I make cakes!
Yeah hubby!!!! The Amazing race rocks!!!!! I LOVE that show.
Sorry about your cakes. Hope they turned out ok.
I stopped using the oil in my cakes about a year ago. Instead I use butter. Turns out sooooooo much better too.
I always omit the oil in my box cake mixes. I can always taste (feel) it when I eat it. With all of the extras I add, moistness is never an issue for me.
gibson & lemondrop,
When you say you (and your sister) never add the oil, are you adding anything else (like applesauce) to replace it? Can you let me know if you do anything else special to the mix besides leave out the oil, for it to turn out so moist and tasty. I'd love to make a "healthier" cake too!
I never use oil in my cakes nor do I add anything to replace it. This came up in a post last week or at the beginning of this week, if you search the forums there were some good posts on the subject.
I also responded there with a long story about how oil ended up in cakes when the flour industry bought the oil producing companies. blah, blah, blah
And oil ended up on the cake mix box. I will try to find it and post.
I don't use oil either - hope you find that post Ladi
Hi,
I stopped using oil in my Duncan Heinz mixes as right after they added it to the mix years & years ago. I never follow the instructions on the back of the box for the ingredients. We actully contacted Duncan Heinz Co. (years ago) and they gave us the equivalent ingredients to add to make it work. It actully is just as moist, if not moister! It is 1 & 1/3 cup water and only 2 eggs. That's it! 
It not only keeps the fat down, reduces the eggs and cost too. Try it! 
Found it
This is the link, scroll down to cake mixes. It tells you about the mix only taking water and when the eggs were added to the mix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake#Cake_mixes
Hope this helps a little
Hi YumFrosting:
I only add 2 eggs and 1.5 cups of water and no oil and I don't substitute anything for the oil. Everybody loves the cakes their so moist and light!
Happy baking
Tammy
edited to add:
Oh I forgot to mention that I only use Betty Crocker cake mixes!
Thanks for the input everyone! I am going to try the no oil way, and see how it turns out. It sounds great!
Just want to say I made a Devil's food cake from DH w/o oil and it came out great!
I just read the part of the article that says BC had first introduced their cake mix that instructed the user to only add water. Now I wonder- has anyone tried making one of these cakes mixes with water only? Hmmm???
thank you all for your information I will also will try it with out oir
I tried a couple of cakes this week with no oil and I have to saw there wasn't much difference. The devils food cake was a but drier but I also think it may have been slightly overcooked so that doesn't really count. Thank You for the info. ANy prices I can cut out of my cakes I want to.
Just want to say I made a Devil's food cake from DH w/o oil and it came out great!
I just read the part of the article that says BC had first introduced their cake mix that instructed the user to only add water. Now I wonder- has anyone tried making one of these cakes mixes with water only? Hmmm???
Have you ever had an Easy Bake Oven Cake? That is just adding water not very yummy 
ANormally I make cakes the old fashioned way (without a mix). When I'm in a hurry I use a mix. Yesterday I made a chocolate cake and forgot the 1/2 cup of oil. The cake was wonderful and very moist! I was shocked. I served it to our guests with a "home made" chocolate icing. One of our guests asked if I'd mind giving her the recipe! So I did. She said she'll never add oil to her cake mixes again!
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