I baked up an absolute crazy storm tonight. I started baking right when I got home from work and I'm finally done. So it comes out to be about 4 hours - not too shabby considering how many cakes I produced. I made two of 6 inch, 8 inch, 10 inch and 14 inch cakes. Because I only had one of the 10 inch and the 14 inch cake pan, and only one pan can fit in the oven at a time, I whipped up the cake batter 6 separate times!
I got a really good tip from this cake book about using bake-even strips around the cake pan while baking for an evenly shaped cake. And today, I learned first hand that they really do work. They keep the edges of the cake from cooking faster than the center of the cake resulting in a more level cake especially for larger cakes. If you've baked cakes that had a funny bump in the middle with deep cracks, these are what you need.
Crossing my fingers that everything will go as planned for Lisa's perfect wedding day!
so that's what those weird strips were next to the oven... good to know!
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