I bake my cakes in a convention oven and they all come out level. Also, when I spread my batter I tend to move the batter towards the edges more than the center.
It could also depend on your receipe? I make scratch cakes and so far they all bake level.
It also depends on the temp you are baking at. I always bake at 325 in a conventional oven with my homemade bake even strips (strips of terrycloth). My cakes always bake up nice and high to the point where I can level them easily by cutting off the tops while still in the pans.
I always use my own homemade bake-even (terry cloth) strips, bake on stonewear (Baker's Secret) cookie sheet, use a flower nail (or 2, or 3) on ALL cakes, and bake at 325F. I never have to level them. The only ones I have to level, are the character-shaped pans I do for my own kids, lol!
I always use my own homemade bake-even (terry cloth) strips, bake on stonewear (Baker's Secret) cookie sheet, use a flower nail (or 2, or 3) on ALL cakes, and bake at 325F. I never have to level them. The only ones I have to level, are the character-shaped pans I do for my own kids, lol!
Interesting! Do you preheat the cookie sheet stone? And are you bake-even strips just strips of terry cloth and that's it?!? (I assume you wet them before putting them around the pan...)
I have a long knife (about 24 inches long) that I use to level my cakes in the pan after they come out the oven.
Once the batter is in the pans, I drop them a couple times from about 6" up onto the counter to burp out any air bubbles. Then I give them a good spin which pushes the batter towards the outer edge of the pan.
I have the bottom of my gas oven lined with unglazed fireplace bricks which get preheated in the oven for an hour before the cakes go in. Hooray even heat distribution! ![]()
If it's a large cake I use flower nails.
I bake at about 315* which works best in my oven.
Once they're baked and cooled, I generally only need to do a very little bit of trimming the tops to get them level.
As leah_s said, you have to do the leveling yourself, but the above is what works for me to minimize the hump. ![]()
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