Let It Cook!

 When I was still a learner at baking, I didn't know the basic things. I was always having flat cakes! They just wouldn't rise. I thought maybe the baking powder wasn't enough. I'll put more than the recipe requested for and still the stubborn cakes won't just rise. Sigh. I eventually figured what I kept doing wrong. Thing is my oven didn't have light so there was no way I could see if the cake had risen so I can check if it was done. Hence why I kept opening it every 20 minutes. This is the problem! There's a reason a recipe has the baking time at the end of the steps. If the time wasn't important, they could've just written, "Bake till it's done"

 If you want to check if the cake is done, do so at most, five minutes to the exact time the recipe calls for. Don't do so half way like I used to. I realized that most times, even at the time the recipe said it was supposed to be done, it was still not done. So I usually check if my cake is done ten minutes after the requested time. Reason been that the oven temperatures might differ. Hence why you should make sure the oven is well preheated before putting the cake in.

 What I do is, I preheat the oven before starting the measurement. That way, I would have given it twenty minutes (preparation time) to pre-heat. If you do these basic things, you should be sure your cake won't sink again.

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