Separating Challah from Cakes
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Question
Is it necessary to separate challah from cakes (a cake made from a soft batter that hardens during baking)?
Answer
Shalom Rav,
Even from a cake, one must separate challah if there is a measure of 1.200 kilograms of flour.
Usually, there isn't such a measure of flour because in each cake of this type there is one or two cups of flour. However, if several cakes were baked and combined in one place, it becomes obligatory to separate.
The time for separating from a cake that starts soft and only hardens during baking is after baking. Not like other baked goods where, according to the main law, one separates when it is dough.
Source
Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah 329:2, and see 325 and 327