HOw to bake a cake in the Oven?

Yellow Cake

12 servings

Prep: 20 minutes

Bake: 30 minutes

Cool: 1 hour

Stand: 1 hour

Ingredients

2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup butter or margarine

1-3/4 cups sugar

1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla

2 eggs

1-1/4 cups milk

Directions

1. Grease and lightly flour two 8x1-1/2-inch or 9x1-1/2-inch round baking pans or grease one 13x9x2-inch baking pan; set pan(s) aside. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.

2. In a large mixing bowl beat butter or margarine with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar and vanilla; beat until well combined. Add eggs, one at a time, beating 1 minute after each. Add dry mixture and milk alternately to beaten mixture, beating on low speed after each addition just till combined. Pour batter into the prepared pan(s).

3. Bake in a 375 degree F oven for 30 to 35 minutes or until a wooden toothpick comes out clean. Cool layer cakes in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove layer cakes from pans. Cool thoroughly on racks. Or, place 13x9-inch cake in pan on a wire rack; cool thoroughly. Frost with desired frosting. Makes 12 servings.

Yellow Cupcakes: To make cupcakes, grease and lightly flour thirty 2-1/2-inch muffin cups or line with paper baking cups. Prepare cake as directed in Step 2. Fill each cup half full. Bake in preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Makes 30 cupcakes.

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Chocolate Cake

Prep: 30 minutes

Bake: 35 minutes

Cool: 1 hour

Stand: 1 hour

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter

3 eggs

2 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

1-1/2 cups milk

Directions

1. Allow butter and eggs to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, lightly grease bottoms of two 8x8x2-inch square or 9x1-1/2-inch round cake pans. Line bottoms of pans with waxed paper. Grease and lightly flour bottoms and sides of pans. Or, grease one 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Set pan(s) aside. In a medium bowl stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder; and salt; set aside.

2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large mixing bowl beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Gradually add sugar, about 1/4 cup at a time, beating on medium speed until well combined (3 to 4 minutes). Scrape sides of bowl; continue beating on medium speed for 2 minutes more. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating after each addition (about 1 minute total). Beat in vanilla.

3. Alternately add flour mixture and milk to butter mixture, beating on low speed just until combined after each addition. Beat on medium to high speed for 20 seconds more. Spread batter into the prepared pan(s).

4. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes for 8-inch pans and 13x9x2-inch pan, 30 to 35 minutes for 9-inch pans, or until a wooden toothpick inserted near centers comes out clean. Cool cake layers in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove cake layers from pans. Peel off waxed paper. Cool thoroughly on racks. Or, place 13x9x2-inch cake in pan on a wire rack; cool thoroughly. Frost with desired frosting.

5. Makes 12 to 16 servings

6. Devil's Food Cake: Prepare as above, except omit baking powder and increase baking soda to 1-1/4 teaspoons.

Cake mix route is best to start. Here are some hints that I found out the hard way over many years of practice. While these are not hard, they are good practice and make sure your efforts are not thwarted.

Use fresh eggs and large ones. Set them out early to come to room temp first. Break them into a bowl separately, then add to mix one at a time, in case one egg is bad, you can throw it away. Beat as per mix instructions. It is really important not to over beat.

If you are going to make a layer cake, you want it to be level. I found that if I spray the sides only with veg spray, and put some flour in pan, shaking it around sides, empty excess, and put parchment paper in the bottom (find with the foil and plastic wrap or baking section, put the pan on paper and trace, cut out.) The flour makes the mix stick to sides of pan rather than dome up...more likely to stay flat. The parchment makes the cake turn out perfectly, gently peeled off and discarded. You can do this with a 9X13 pan too.

You can add any flavorings, just put in measuring cup before you add water so you don't increase the total amount of liquid to the mix. Ex: 1/4 kahlua OR very strong coffee, 1 T Mexican vanilla and 1/4 c hersheys syrup to a choco cake. Put the above in the measuring cup and then add water to the amount of the water called for. If the mix calls for 1 1/2 c water, put the syrup etc, in cup, then add water up to the 1 1/2 c line. When I add flavors to a mix, people think it is a home made cake!

Welcome to cake baking...you will fall in love with all the kinds you can make.

The best thing to do is get a boxed cake mix and follow the directions. That is what they do in the bakeries. You just add the ingredients preheat the oven grease and flour the pan and make the batter the way the box tell you and bake it. It's easy then you take it out of the oven and immediately out of the pan or else it will fall apart and then let it cool and then you can frost it.

moist CHOCOLATE CAKE IN MICROWAVE OVEN a million/4 c. (a million/2 stick butter) a million/2 c. sugar 2 eggs a million/2 c. flour a million/2 tsp. baking powder a million/2 tsp. vanilla a million c. chocolate syrup Cream butter and sugar; upload eggs and beat until eventually fluffy. upload sifted dry elements, vanilla and chocolate syrup. Beat until eventually thoroughly mixed. Pour into an 8-inch sq. or round glass baking dish. cook, uncovered, 7 minutes in microwave oven. FROSTING: even as cake continues to be warmth, spread a million cup miniature marshmallows extreme. In microwave oven, melt 2 tablespoons butter for 30 seconds in glass blending bowl. upload a million/2 cup sugar and a couple of tablespoons evaporated milk; blend thoroughly. cook uncovered, for 2 minutes. instantly blend in a million/4 cup chocolate chips and a million/2 teaspoon vanilla. Pour over cake and combine with marshmallows. Microwave cooking situations are approximate. Cooking time varies with the type of microwave oven.

Buy some cake mix and follow the directions on the back of the box. I wouldn't suggest making a home made cake if it's your fist time.

Honey... if you buy the box with the cake mix, the simplest way even a 5 year old understands in written there, on the back of the box. You can't go wrong. After you get really comfortable with box cakes, email me I'll teach you to make from scratch. :))

Betty Crocker has excellent cake mixes and if you're a first timer, this might be the way to guarantee success. If you really want to make one from scratch, go to recipes.com, recipezaar.com, Kraft.com. Just type in what you want and take it from there. Good luck hun.

Go bye a betty crocker cake mix at a grocery store,and they have easy to follow recipies on the back.

well for begginers just go to a store and by a Cake mix AND THERE YA GO look on the back for step by step instructions

dont forget your timer!

Here are some easy cake recipes

http://www.chocolate-playground.com/cake-recipe.ht...

Have fun

Ayelet

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