overbake

present singular third person overbakes · participle present overbaking · participle past overbaked · past overbaked

1. transitiveTo bake too much: for too long, at too high a temperature, or both.

   And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to eat.

   1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 1

   1 more example

   It’s for an eight-inch pan, and the only thing you need to fear is overbaking; somewhere between 20 and 25 minutes is just about right.

   2007 April 18, “Letters”, in New York Times

   Antonyms: underbake