FAQs While Making A Cake

Our mind always try to find out easier ways to do things than the given ones. But its true to say that there is no short cut to success. Put your time effort and most importantly, your heart to give your best. I have been taking baking classes for so many years and I have to always answer the following questions:
1. What if I put milk in place of drinking soda ?
Every ingredient has its own importance in a given recipe as every ingredient contributes in its own way to get a soft and yummy cake. All ingredients in a recipe are proportionate to each other, in measurements and also in taste. If any of them is disturbed, you'll not get the desired results.
For example, drinking soda has fizz and helps to make cake spongy but if we put milk, you'll need something to replace that fizz. Then how much to increase baking powder to accomodate that fizz is a big question. Then you keep on trying different measurements till you get desired result. To make it easy for you I have been doing this try and error method for years and came out with perfect recipes which never fail.
2. What if I do not have time to beat all ingredients one by one and rather put all the things together in a mixer grinder ?
There are always three possibilities: to get good result, better result and the best result. To get the best out of what you do it is always advisable to follow every step in the method given. It hardly takes ten minutes more but reward is much bigger.
3. What if I do not measure the ingredients by grams and instead measure them in cup to make it even easier ?
Try to be as accurate as possible and avoid taking approximate measurements to get desired result. Otherwise experiment at your own risk. Buy a weighing machine of 2 kg and always enjoy the cake you'll make.
4. What if I do not pre-heat the oven ?
Well if you do not do so, the cake does not turn out to be spongy. If you keep the batter at room temperature in the oven, it settles down before it gets start to bake. Whereas if oven is pre-heated, batter immediately starts cooking, makin the cake soft and spongy.
5. What if I do not sift the maida ?
This is like asking: What if I do not mix water in poster colour and start painting ?
Of course to colour with a brush smoothly you need to add water to it. Similarly every step has its own importance beyond any explaination.
6. What if I bake the cake in microwave oven ?
These recipes are suitable for oven only, for microwave the recipe should be altogether different. My personal experience is that cakes turn out much much better in an oven than a microwave.
If you have any other question or doubt than post it here on the blog, I am always there to help.