Cake Science...
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3 Ways to Restore, Recreate or Recycle a Failed Cake
Everybody has cake failures, but what separates the master baker from the average cook is the way that you deal with them. Burnt cake is almost...
A Baker's Guide
So you’ve done all the mixing and folding; you’ve pre-heated the oven and put your cake in its greased and lined tin. Now you're going to pop it in the oven and hope the...
All About Cake Ingredients
Faced with a bewildering array of flours on the shelf in the supermarket today which one do you choose? And that’s just the first question! Next it’s which sugar?...
Baking Ingredients to Subsitute
There are occasions when you will find you don't have exactly the right ingredients suggested by a recipe. Here are some suggestions for substitute ingredients which...
Cake-O-Meter: Convert Baking Tin Sizes
Have you ever seen a recipe but wanted to make a larger or smaller version? If so then our nifty calculator makes this a doddle. Simply enter...
Cake-U-Lator: Cake Recipe Pricing
We've heard many times that pricing cakes to sell can be a fairly tricky task - so to help, we created the 'Cake-U-Lator'!
Simply complete the details and...
Famous Cake Bakers
How did it all begin? The British have a long line of famous cake-bakers and an equally long line of classic cake recipes. From the committed Isabella Beeton to...
History of Cake Baking
To misquote Monty Python what have the Ancient Egyptians ever done for us?
Well, they’ve given us cake for a start! Roman and Greek history records...
Measurements and Scaling
If you’ve browsed the Cake Baker website you’ll have noticed that all the recipes are given in Imperial measurements i.e. pounds (lbs) and ounces (oz): we’re an...
