Alix’s Reviews > The Life-Changing Magic of Baking: A Beginner's Guide by Baker Joy Wilson > Status Update

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.