Ok, so I love to bake cakes and decorate but every time I try to bake a cake from scratch it turns out very heavy and there is a taste of either flour or baking soda. No matter what I do it still comes out this way, I thought my ingredients were no good so I bought new ones and used them and still heavy and funky tasting. Please any tips will be greatly appreciated.

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Could you post the recipe you use so that we can see if you have a little too much/little of any ingredients? You're sifting your dry ingredients together well before mixing, then mixing the batter until it's smooth before baking?