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Error 1: 'Eyeballing It' (The Grandma Cup)

In savory cooking you can improvise; in baking you CANNOT. A 'cup' of flour can vary by 30g depending on how packed it is, and that ruins the dough. Use a digital scale. It's cheap and is the difference between a brick and a cloud.
Error 1: 'Eyeballing It' (The Grandma Cup)

Error 2: Cold Is Your Enemy (Sometimes)

If the recipe says 'softened butter' or 'room temperature eggs', obey. If you mix cold butter with sugar, it won't emulsify. If you add cold eggs to whipped fat, it will curdle. Take ingredients out 1 hour before.
Error 2: Cold Is Your Enemy (Sometimes)

Error 3: Oven Diogenes Syndrome

Stop opening the door! Every time you open to 'look', the temperature drops 20-30 degrees. If it's a cake that is rising, that thermal drop will collapse the air structure and the center will sink. Never open before 3/4 of the time.
Error 3: Oven Diogenes Syndrome

Error 4: The Wrong Pan

If you use a dark black pan, it absorbs more heat and will burn the edges before the center is done. If you change the size (e.g. from 20cm to 26cm), the baking time changes drastically. Try to respect the size or adjust the time (thinner = less time).
Error 4: The Wrong Pan

Error 5: Mixing with Fury

Once you add the flour, STOP BEATING. If you overbeat wet flour, you develop gluten. Gluten is great for bread (elastic and tough) but terrible for a cake (makes it rubbery). Mix only until the flour disappears.
Error 5: Mixing with Fury

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