18Cooking Tips and Helpful HintsThe bottom of a cake baked Remove from the oven all baking sheets or universalon a baking sheet stays too pan currently not in use.lightThe bottom of a cake baked Use a wire shelf and not a baking sheet to supportin a tin stays too light the cake tin during baking.The bottom of cake or Set cake or cookies into a higher set of shelfcookies gets too dark position.The cake gets too dry Select a slightly higher oven temperature, and shorterbaking time.The cake is too moist Choose a slightly lower baking temperature.on the inside Note: Higher temperatures do not shorten bakingtimes (done on the outside, raw on the inside).Choose a slightly longer baking time, allow the doughto rise slightly longer. Add less liquid to the dough.When baked with circotherm, Avoid blocking the air vents at the rear wall of thecake baked in round or oven cavity with the cake tins.square tins gets too darkat the rearVery moist cake dough (e.g. You can let the steam escape from the oven andfruit cake) causes a lot of thereby reduce the forming of water droplets bysteam to generate in the briefly and carefully opening the oven door (once oroven that condenses on the twice, in case of longer baking times more often).oven door.Very uneven browning when Check the shelf position.using circothermCake collapses when taken Use less liquid.out of the ovenTo save energy Preheat only if expressly required by the recipe.Dark baking tins have a higher degree of heatabsorption.Residual heat: In the case of longer baking times,you can switch off the oven 5-10 minutes before thefull baking time has elapsed.