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How to Bake a Cake from Scratch (a step-by-step guide)

Mixing chocolate cake batter in a bowl.

Are you ready to try your hand at scratch cake baking? Don’t be intimidated. You can do it and you’ll be so proud of yourself when you do! This post is literally a step-by-step guide on how to bake a cake from scratch. I wanted to put together a step-by-step guide to baking a scratch…

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Filed Under: Cake Baking Tips Tagged With: baking tips, cake business tips

The Biggest Cake Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make

Broken chocolate cake on a cake plate.

These are the biggest cake mistakes you definitely don’t want to make when baking cakes. There are some super easy tweaks that you can make and tips to help prevent cake mishaps, so you bake perfect cakes every time. In this post, I’ve tried to list out all the mistakes I could think of that…

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Filed Under: Cake Baking Tips Tagged With: baking tips, birthday cakes, bundt cakes, layer cakes, sheet cakes

What’s the Difference Between Baking Soda and Baking Powder When Baking Cakes?

Baking powder with a wooden spoon.

Baking soda and baking powder are two different things. It’s easy to want to sub out one for the other, but you definitely don’t want to do that. If you do, your cake can turn out way different than you expected. So let’s get into what each is and what they’re used for. Why is…

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Which Cocoa Powder Do I Use? (What’s the Difference?)

Cocoa powder in a spoon.

Ever wonder why a cake recipe says to use cocoa powder, but then says not to use dutch processed cocoa powder? Well there’s a good reason for that, so let’s answer the question, “Which cocoa powder do I use and why?” So here’s the short answer for the question, “Why does a recipe say not…

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Measuring Ingredients For Baking Cakes

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When baking cakes, it’s important that you’re measuring ingredients properly, so that your cake turns out perfectly. If you measure the wrong way, you’ll get a completely different result than you intended. Here I share my tips for measuring ingredients, so you can bake your best cake yet. In this post I want to talk…

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