3 Ways You're Ruining Your Homemade Cakes

If you struggle with dry, dense, homemade cakes that taste like cornbread, you need this guide! I'm sharing the top 3 common ways to ruin your cake so you can avoid them and ditch those box mixes once and for all.

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00:00 Introduction
00:22 Mistake 1: Measuring your flour incorrectly and accidentally packing in more flour than you need. This can be avoided by using a spoon to stir and fluff the flour, before using the spoon to scoop the flour into your measuring cup and leveling it off. This can also be avoided (and the flour more accurately measured) by using a kitchen scale to weigh out the proper amount of flour as indicated in the recipe.
01:55 Mistake 2: Mixing your ingredients incorrectly. If the recipe states for you to cream together the butter and sugar, make sure they are actually creamed together by mixing for a minute or two with an electric mixer until the mixture is smooth and lightened in color. If the cake uses a traditional creaming method (meaning there are separate wet ingredients and dry ingredients that then get combined), don't use your electric mixer to combine your wet and dry ingredients, but instead use a spatula or spoon to combine the dry ingredients slowly, folding in by hand--being sure not to over-mix.
03:31 Baking your cake for too long. Most ovens don't run true to temperature, so it's a good idea to place an oven thermometer (or two) in your middle rack and be sure that you always bake your cakes in that center rack (unless a recipe specifically indicates otherwise). When a recipe lists a range of baking times, always start checking if your cake is done at that lower time and make sure you remove the cake from the baking pan when when the recipe says to in order to avoid over-baking.
Bonus: Decorating is key! I have a tutorial on how to decorate cakes for beginners as that’s a great way to take your cakes from looking lumpy, lopsided, and domed to looking more professional and clean: https://youtu.be/z7nFnKuYOT4

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