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This is another tip, courtesy of my mom. Just as ovens often don’t have an accurate temperature dial, they have a tendency to bake unevenly.
Rotating your pan 180 degrees midway through the baking process will help ensure your confections bake evenly.
The February 2011 issue of Reader’s Digest suggests lining a cookie sheet with a layer of white bread slices and baking them under the broiler to determine where your oven is the hottest. From there you can better figure out how to rotate your pans for more even baking. For the full how-to, check out 3 Shortcuts From All Over.
(Thanks to Dad, who passed along the Reader’s Digest article.)
[...] When doing this at home, be sure to check your oven thermometer. It bakes for 18-22 minutes at 350. Rotate your pans around the 10 minute [...]
[...] I baked the cake at 350 for 28 minutes, rotating at the 18 minute mark. According to the cake mix box, it should have baked in 36 minutes, but when [...]
[...] pan wasn’t greased and floured enough. Maybe the cake didn’t bake evenly even though I rotated the pan halfway through. I may never know. This is an unfortunate reality of [...]
[...] baked up in about 22 minutes. I rotated my pans halfway [...]
[...] minutes at 350 degrees. When I took it out of the oven, it looked a little lopsided, even though I rotated my pans halfway through. And then I remembered how I have even baking strips for the purpose of [...]