Grease & Flour a Cake Pan

Making cakes can be fun, but the fun goes down a notch if your cake sticks to the baking pan. In order to prevent this, you must grease and flour the cake pan before you bake the cake. Greasing and flouring a cake pan is not difficult as long as you have the proper ingredients. Plus, you only need to grease and flour a cake pan if you are making a cake that must be removed from the pan completely, such as a layer cake.

Dip the pastry brush into the shortening. Make sure the pastry brush has a generous amount of the grease on it.

Cover every inch of the pan, from the base up to the top of the sides of the pan, with shortening. Be sure to coat it evenly.

Sprinkle flour into the greased cake pan. Sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of flour at a time.

Hold the cake pan upright and shift it back and forth in order to spread the flour around the cake pan. Once the bottom of the pan is coated in flour, turn the pan on its side to coat the edges. Turn the pan in a circle while it is on its side to completely coat the entire pan. Add more flour as needed.

Tip: If you are making a chocolate cake, use cocoa powder instead of flour to prepare your pan. Flour will give the chocolate cake a layer of white on the outside, while cocoa powder will not.

DID YOU KNOW? 

Always grease and flour your cake pans before you mix the ingredients or your cake might not come out right. Most batters need to start cooking immediately after being mixed, and they shouldn't sit around waiting for you to prepare the cake pans.

Bake Me, 

Dina

Thanks to: ehow.com and google.com

Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip cookie mix

I always store cookie mixes and cake mixes in my baking drawer. They are my "emergency stash", i use them when we have unexpected visitors or when my baking mood arises.

This cookie mix never fails to make my husband, son and friends drool. 

It's very easy to make and it's also awesomely delicious.

This cookie mix calls for a 1/2 cup of butter. Just divide your butter bar into two and basically that's the 

half of it. You need to cream you butter before adding the cookie mix.

*make sure that you butter is SOFTENED and NOT melted.

After creaming the butter in your mixer you can now add your chocolate chip cookie mix.

Once your butter and cookie mix become incorporated with each other, you can now add

you eggs.

Mix it for another minute and turn off you mixer.

*DO NOT OVERMIX.

Sometimes i add more chocolate chip into my cookie mixture.
*death by chocolate chip*

Once your mixture is done, use an ice cream scoop to equally divide your cookies into your cookie sheet. 

Follow the baking instructions indicated at the cookie mix box.

I always aim for soft and chewy cookies, so i remove my cookies in the oven 5 minutes before time.

*COOKIES BAKE/HARDEN EVEN AFTER YOU REMOVE FROM YOUR OVEN*

I usually let them cool and then i place them in a airtight container to maintain moisture and quality.

Try this: before indulging this cookies, put them in the microwave for 15 seconds. They will taste

like freshly baked cookies. 

Cookie Time, 

Dina

Cake Stencils

Last year, i receive a package from my sister. Inside this lovely box are assorted wilton products. I cannot put into words the excitement I felt as soon as i opened that brown box. One of the goddies inside are Wilton Cake Stencils. I love this babies because its very easy to use and it gives your cake a make over with the blink of an eye. It's that fast and easy. You can use powdered sugar, cocoa, lustre dusts and of course buttercream frosting.

You need not to be a rocket scientist to figure this one out:

All you need for are the ff:

1. buttercream frosting (if you are

using buttercream)

2. food coloring of your choice

3. an elevated spatula

4. a cake

5. Wilton stencils

Practice makes perfect. While it is very easy, you still need a little practice to perfect the art of transferring stencils on to your cake. I usually practice over a sheet of paper or wherever. Just make sure to practice before layering it over to your cake.

Patience is a virtue and Practice makes perfect.

However, If you don't have patience then you better go for powdered sugar.

Awesome cake is awesome.

:)

Happy stencils,

Dina