How to bake a cake step by step recipes

If you're ready to try your hand at scratch cake baking, don't be intimidated. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to bake a cake from scratch.

Italian sponge cake (Pan di Spagna) is a classic 3-ingredient light and airy sponge cake, perfect on its own or the basis for other desserts.

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This best simple chocolate cake is light and airy, moist and tender, rich and chocolate-y. The secret ingredient ensures perfect chocolate cake every time!

Learn how to make your first cake for beginners. What tools you need, how to bake a basic cake, get that beautiful frosting and simple decorating!

This Simple Vanilla Cake recipe is beginner-friendly! This recipe will make two 8-inch round cake layers or 18 to 24 standard cupcakes. Alternately, you could also make one 8-inch cake layer and 8-12 standard cupcakes. View the buttercream recipe/tutorial here.

I am writing this guide from the perspective of a non-pastry chef. This guide will save you all the hard work of finding the answers how to bake the best butter cake and avoid most of the common mistakes.

Have you graduated from boxed cake mix? Want to step up your cake-making game? Lucky for all of us, baking a cake from scratch is completely doable for the home baker. If you are just starting out, we have some great tips and just the right recipe for you. Classic yellow butter cake straight from your own oven – what’s better than that? Let’s get started!

Before decorating your cake, you must first understand how to put it together. This involves assembling the cake and preparing the layers. Watch and learn how to assemble and add fillings to your cakes before decorating.

Have you ever wanted to bake a cake and only wanted a half of your recipe, or double or triple? Here is a chart for how to half, double and triple recipes.