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Reasons why you need patience as a baker:
1. Cookie dough needs to chill in the refrigerator first so the ingredients can get used to each other and become friends.
2. An apple pie has to cool for several hours for the juices to thicken.
3. A cake is done when you poke a skewer into the center and just a few crumbs are left on the skewer when you pull it out.

Baking tips:
1. Chill your dough in the fridge for 1 hour before making your cookies = cookies become flat because the butter in the dough has melted too quickly, but cold butter in the dough will melt less quickly, allowing the cookies to rise.
2. Let a cake bake until it's almost done before opening the oven or moving the pan. A cake can sink if you open the oven and move the pan during the first 20 mins of baking.

5. a dairy ingredient (milk or cream cheese) or a non-dairy alternative - paint that covers the walls
6. a raising agent (baking powder or baking soda, or sometimes both) - cement that goes between the bricks
7. a pinch of salt - furniture that makes the house complete
8. heat - electricity that makes everything run

(Part 2)

Each ingredients is like how a house is built:
1. flour - foundation of the house and the bricks
2. sugar - window that lets in the light
3. eggs - beams that support the roof
4. a fat, like butter or oil - plumbing that keeps everything flowing and moist

(Part 1)

Eight ingredients are basic for most cakes:
1. flour
2. sugar
3. eggs
4. a fat, like butter or oil
5. a dairy ingredient (milk or cream cheese) or a non-dairy alternative
6. a raising agent (baking powder or baking soda, or sometimes both)
7. a pinch of salt
8. heat

Creaming - when soft butter and sugar are blended together. A fluffy mixture is created, which the fluffiness is air worked into the butter and sugar and the air will help the cake bake up soft and tall.