SOME COMMON FAULTS IN CAKE MAKING…

A. A damp heavy cake, sometimes called a sad cake.. This is because the proportion of liquid or sugar is too high in the mixture.... The oven temperature is too low. The cake not cooled properly before serving/ storing. Fruit sunk to the bottom of the cake..... Too much baking powder, so the cake rose too quickly. Too much liquid and rose slowly so the fruit sank to the bottom. The use of wet fruit instead of dried fruit. The oven temperature too low. Cake collapsed in the middle..... Because the oven was too hot. Used too mich baking powder. A cold draught caused by opening the oven door before the cake was set and leaving the oven to slam shut...