Lining a Cake Pan

In most cake recipes, you would have noticed the step (usually after preheating your oven to the desired temperature) that tells you to prepare your cake pan - line your pan with parchment paper/grease your pan, etc.

Some recipes would want you to prepare your cake pan even before you start to measure your ingredients and some recipes include that step after the batter is prepared. But i would say it's best to prepare your cake pan before hand because once a batter is mixed, a lot of chemical reactions take place that could reduce its leavening power and hence produce less rise, so why delay baking?

Chocolate Decorations - chocolate plates

You can make many beautiful decorations with chocolate that you can use for any dessert or cake.
In the video posted in this post, i teach you how to make chocolate plates (and this is the easiest) and i will keep adding more choc decorations in the future...

I have used chocolate plates to decorate my triple chocolate mousse cake as shown below :)

How to become a perfect Baker - Measuring Ingredients

Cake baking is not a difficult task. Most of us have the misconception that baking perfect cakes is very toilsome. But, it is not! You just have to make sure you have on the dot measurements and follow the procedure precisely. In this post we are going to aim attention at measuring ingredients.