Basics of Cake Making

Certain Rules that has to be followed while making a cake:

1. Always stick to the recipe.
2. Never ever even think of altering a recipe, unless and until you are really good in making and baking and you know what would happen if you alter any ingredient.
3. Omission basic ingredients is a crime but you can always change or omit small ingredients.
   Always use right temperatures, if recipes require preheating always do it.
4. If you don’t know how accurate your stove is, or you have an older oven that hasn’t been serviced in many years, buy an oven thermometer to make sure that the oven is really the right temperature before putting the cake in. Sometimes, oven temperature readings can be off by as much as 75 degrees and that can mean the difference between a great cake and a really hard brick....so either you eat a cake or built a dog house.
5. Make sure to dust baking tin with butter and flour.
6. Make sure you know the method to make a cake.
7. Last but not the least " There are no short cuts in making a cake"'.