Baking is an Art, it needs full of concentration and effort to bake a cake. There is some procedure to bake the perfect one. Here are the tips to bake the perfect cake.

• First, choose the recipe and read thoroughly. Using the freshest ingredients which makes the cake more fresh and sweet.
• Bring eggs and butter to room temperature, preheat oven- make sure rack is close to the center because the upper and lower rack will get variation in heat. So use the middle rack to heat.
• Be sure to use the correct cake pans. Imagine your decorating with frosting, choose cakes based on that. Most common birthday cakes are sheet cakes, because you can make a lot of words on them. Second, the most important are two curved pans because the cake will be delicious with decoration between layers. The cake pans can be round, sheet, tube, square or cupcakes. Use pan according to your requirement.
• Grease the pans with shortening. Take a small sheet of waxed paper and wrap it around your index. Dig into the shortening and apply same to the cake pan. You need quite a bit of shortening- make it look like a white layer of cold cream on your pan. Be sure to get right into the edges so the cake won’t stick.
• Take about ¼ cup of flour and sprinkle it over the shortening. Pick up the pan and hit the sides so the flour will distribute equally. You want the flour to adhere to the shortening, but you don’t want mounds of flour. Repeat with additional pans.
• Use paper liners when making cupcakes as this provides ease in decorating. Gather and measure all ingredients before you start mixing. Use medium bowl of flour and small bowls,  baking soda, extracts, etc.,
• Dry ingredients are measured in dry measuring cups and spoons. When you measure the dry ingredients, overfill the cup while holding it over your container. Then run a knife over the top of the cup to level the ingredients with the absolute top rim of the dry measuring cup. Use the same technique with measuring spoons and when you are measuring dry ingredients like baking powder, salt, and soda. Measure the liquid ingredients in glass measuring cups.
• Follow your recipe for the order in which to mix your ingredients. Very few recipes say to dump all ingredients in at once. Once, you need to beat in eggs at a time on low speed. Use an electric mixer, it is much better at mixing your ingredients than you can do by hand. Mixing by hand in a large mixing bowl is possible, but it takes at least 300 beats to properly mix a cake. An electric mixer will do your work in few minutes.

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