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Cooking Tips and Helpful Hints
The bottom of a cake baked Remove from the oven all baking tray or universal
on a baking tray stays too pan currently not in use.
light
The bottom of a cake baked Use a wire shelf and not a baking tray to support the
in a tin stays too light cake tin during baking.
The bottom of cake or Set cake or cookies into a higher set of shelf
cookies gets too dark position.
The cake gets too dry Select a slightly higher oven temperature, and shorter
baking time.
The cake is too moist Choose a slightly lower baking temperature.
on the inside Note: Higher temperatures do not shorten baking
times (done on the outside, raw on the inside).
Choose a slightly longer baking time, allow the dough
to rise slightly longer. Add less liquid to the dough.
When baked with circotherm, Avoid blocking the air vents at the rear wall of the
cake baked in round or oven cavity with the cake tins.
square tins gets too dark
at the rear
Very moist cake dough (e.g. You can let the steam escape from the oven and
fruit cake) causes a lot of thereby reduce the forming of water droplets by
steam to generate in the briefly and carefully opening the oven door (once or
oven that condenses on the twice, in case of longer baking times more often).
oven door.
Very uneven browning when Check the shelf position.
using circotherm circulation
Cake collapses when taken Use less liquid.
out of the oven
To save energy Preheat only if expressly required by the recipe.
Dark baking tins have a higher degree of heat
absorption.
Residual heat: In the case of longer baking times,
you can switch off the oven 5-10 minutes before the
full baking time has elapsed.