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13/08/2026

Learning to bake and your cake keeps failing? If it’s coming out dense instead of light and fluffy, this is the step beginner bakers rush most.

Sugar crystals are sharp and as you beat them with the butter, they create tiny air pockets into the fat which get filled with raising agent like SR flour. Once the batter is in the oven they expand and that’s what gives you a light fluffy cake.

If you quickly just combine the sugar and butter there won’t be enough air to give you decent rise and you get, you guessed it, a dense cake!!

Be honest….. do you normally stop as soon as they’re combined? 👇

30 years of baking, broken down one step at a time, for anyone learning to bake from scratch. 🎂

11/08/2026

Just because a recipe is on the internet, it doesn’t mean it’s a good 1! 🍓🍰

A strawberry cake sounded like the perfect summer bake. It took me six attempts to admit defeat. Every time I baked it there was a problem, rubbery, dense, too wet, over baked, underbaked & finally so sunk in the middle it nearly touched the plate.

And every single time, I did I followed the recipe…. I had the right tin, tested oven temps, followed the recipe to the letter.

Here’s my cautionary tale: when you’re learning to bake, stick to recipes from well known bakers or cake makers. The more people have made it, the more tested it is.

Whose recipes do you like to use or whose do you want to use for your first bake?

09/08/2026

If your sponge cakes keep coming out flat, dry, or sunk in the middle. This recipe is the best and I use it all the time. 🍰

It’s an easy egg-weighing method, but with one TWIST that I thinks stops it from being dry and run of the mill. It’s a simple change but it makes all the difference. Most recipes don’t talk about this.
Easy Sponge Cake Recipe
Preheat your oven to 140°C and line two 8-inch cake tins.

• 411g butter
• 411g caster sugar
• 411g self-raising flour
• 411g eggs
• 2 tbsp vanilla extract
• 4 tbsp room temperature milk

Full step by step in the video. If you’d like to see how I turn these 2 plain sponges into a beautifully decorated cake you can easily do at home comment decorate cake below and I’ll show you part 2!

06/08/2026

3 things you NEED to know about your oven before you start baking..

1️⃣ Your oven is lying to you. I set mine to 140°C… and the thermometer said something completely different. Almost every oven runs hotter or cooler than the dial… Grab a cheap oven thermometer and find out what yours is really doing.

2️⃣ Check your shelves are in the middle of the oven… if they are too high the cake will cook too quickly!! Always check before you bake.

3️⃣ Don’t overcrowd it. Your oven bakes by circulating hot air… If you cram it full of tins everything cooks unevenly. Give your bakes room to breathe.
Which one of these baking tips surprised you the most?

03/08/2026

If your cake turns out different every time you bake it, this might be why…

I measured the exact same cup of flour three times… and the difference between the smallest and biggest measurement was huge!

No wonder beginner bakers feel like they’re doing everything right and still getting different results. One day the cake’s perfect, the next it’s dry!! So confusing!!

Depending on how you scoop, how packed it is, a cup can be 20-30% out. Scales fix it completely. 200g is 200g every single time!

So if you’re just starting out, find recipes in grams, and grab yourself a cheap set of scales.

03/08/2026

Beginner bakers….if you listen to one thing today, please let it be this 🤍

Your first bakes are not meant to be perfect. They’re meant to be practice.

It doesn’t matter if they sink in the middle or if they’re a bit overbaked. It doesn’t matter if they stick to the tin a bit or overflow your cupcake cases the point is you started.
When you learn to drive, you don’t just get in and go. You learn it one step at a time. Every new hobby is the same. If you crochet or your garden you’re going to kill a plant sometimes or drop a stitch it doesn’t mean you can’t do it. It just means you’re learning. Baking is no different.

So please stop comparing your bakes to what you see online. So much of it is AI now anyway or made by people who do it for a full-time job or have been baking for years, of course they’re not going to show the road to that completed bake.
Just start. Do it as best you can. And you’ll be amazed how fast the confidence comes 💛

31/07/2026

I will never use baking spread instead of butter.. But it’s probably not for the reason you think…
❌ It doesn’t make your cake less light and fluffy
❌ It doesn’t give your cake a funny taste
❌ It’s not more expensive — it’s actually cheaper.

The baking guru herself, Mary Berry, uses baking spread regularly in her cakes. So who am I to argue?

The reason I don’t is because I’ve made a conscious choice to cut down on ultra-processed foods in my baking. I could buy a shop cake full of things that keep it ‘fresh’ for weeks, but that’s just not for me.

So next time a recipe asks for butter, swap in baking spread if you want to 💛
BUT not when you are making buttercream! Because it tastes horrible in my opinion!

29/07/2026

Congratulations, you’ve scrolled far enough 👋
I’m teaching beginner bakers how to bake with confidence. Not by giving you more recipes, but by showing you what your ingredients do and why they do it. 30+ years of baking, and this is the stuff nobody explains.
New series starting now. 🍰

24/07/2026

Come and say Hi at Exeter Cathedral Green tomorrow, Saturday 25th July. Try some of my new products for the market stall, including lamington cake 🇦🇺

22/07/2026

Here’s what nobody tells beginner bakers…

Flour contains gluten and the moment flour hits liquid and you start mixing, that gluten begins to develop. A little mixing is fine, but the more you mix, the tougher and chewier your cake gets.

When you make bread, we want the gluten to develop in bread that’s why you knead it for ages.

So the second your flour goes in, step away from the mixer. Fold it gently, just until you can’t see the flour anymore.l and the batter is nice and smooth, stop mixing. I promise this one small change will make a huge difference to how light and fluffy your cakes are.

Beginner Baker Tips #4 save this for your next bake.

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