Here’s How To Prevent Baking a Dry Cake

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Baking a perfect cake is not as easy as it first seems, especially for beginner bakers who are still not familiar with simple baking tricks. In case your cakes always turn out dry or dense, here are a few baking mistakes you should avoid to prevent this from happening.

Use The Right Flour

Most cake recipes will call for cake flour because this type of flour is best for achieving that soft and fluffy texture when preparing baked goods. Don’t use all-purpose flour as a replacement because this simple mistake can make your cake dry and dense.

Measuring Ingredients

Adding too much flour to dough is one of the most common beginner mistakes and the reason why cakes later turn out dry. To avoid this mistake make sure to always measure your ingredients correctly, and the best way to do this is to use a kitchen scale.

Don’t Over-Bake

Baking for too long will most definitely make your cake dry so always follow recipe instructions or simply insert a toothpick in the cake to see if it’s done.

Room Temperature Butter

There’s always a good reason why the recipe calls for room temperature butter and that’s why you should always follow this tip if you want to bake a perfect cake.