Helpful Easy Tips for Baking!

These are some great easy heplful tips I learnt from my first cake class!
1.  Bake your cake at 325 degrees instead of 350 degrees, which alot of recipes say. Baking your cake at this cooler temperature will help keep it moist and not dry!
2. Don't spray the sides of the cake pan, it will make them hard and crunchy!
3. Add meringue powder to your buttercream and this will make the icing harden so it is much easier to smooth!

 This is a two layer devil's food chocolate cake that I also made for cake class.  I simply used a greeting card as my template and used it as my design for the whole cake.  I used a cardboard cake circle that you can get at michael's craft store for my cake base.  But I recommend covering the cake board, because my looked like crap after the cake was made!  The buttercream icing is very messy and the grease from the icing made the cake board look nothing but ugly by the end...hahaha!