Fun Facts and Tips About Baking
1. You can bake a cake with just soda. Light cake mix needs light soda, and dark cake mix needs dark soda. For example, chocolate cake should have something like coke, and vanilla should have sprite. You just mix them together and put them in the oven until they are done.
2. I would recommend using lighter pans when baking anything, because darker pans tend to burn things. 3. If you have a pet, I would suggest rolling your clothes with a lint roller. 4. When mixing color into fondant or buttercream, mix in color slowly, so the color isn't darker than you wanted. 5. Roll out cookie dough thicker for chewy cookies and thinner for crispy cookies. 6. When making roll-out cookies, work with a small batch of dough and keep the rest covered so it doesn't dry out. 7. If you are baking cupcakes to prevent over baking and potentially dry cupcakes, pull out of the oven and immediately remove from pan and put on wire rack or parchment paper to cool, they continue to cook if they sit in a hot pan and can cause them to over bake. 8. If baking roll-out cookies, for easy cleanup, line the baking sheets with parchment paper. This prevents sticking and keeps the pans clean for fast finishing. 9. When baking roll-out cookies, try your best to not get sprinkles under the cookie because the sprinkles will burn, then burning your cookies. 10. When doing a complicated cake, you can find a picture online and print it to trace or follow the diagram. 11. When you are icing a cake, to avoid getting all the crumbs in, do a crumb coat which is just a thin layer of icing on the entire cake to lock in the little crumbs before putting on the top layer of icing. |