How To Make A Cake Rise Better

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Cakes are best enjoyed when light and fluffy and this can be achieved when the right ingredients are used for making the cake.

   A cake made with good ingredients may not be as light as preferred due to some little baking mistakes.

  When your cake raise higher more air bubbles are in the cake and the resulting cake is hence light and fluffy as desired

   Below are few things to try to make your cake raise higher and makes the resulting cake light and fluffy. This is applicable to cake mix and batter made from scratch...

• Proper Creaming
When Creaming your butter and sugar, make sure enough air are incorporated into your mix as this will determine the rate of your cake's fluffiness but do not over do this as it excess can also affect the cake adversely. The time for Creaming your butter and sugar may vary depending on the quantity of cake to be made, mixer speed, shape and size of mixing bowl (when mixing with bowl and wooden spoon), a deep bowl is advisable when mixing with wooden spoon. Your butter and sugar are good to go when it is white and fluffy

• Add one additional egg to your cake mix

• Separate your egg  white from its yolk and whisk the egg white to its stiff peak, fold the egg white into the batter  at the latter mixing stage.

• Add enough Leavening

• Make sure your ingredients are at room temperature

• When using cake mix,Reduce the oven temperature by 25°, so the cake cooks slowly, this allow the raising agent to have enough time to raise the cake well.

• Sift your dry ingredients, this will allow more air into the dry ingredients.

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