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Will Using Cold Ingredients Ruin Your Cake?

While there's nothing wrong with experimenting with recipes, experienced bakers know that making the perfect cake comes down to an exact science. Your ingredients and techniques have to be just right, or you're bound to make a huge mistake that will ruin your cake . One such blunder besides a measuring mistake when it comes to ingredients is their temperature.

Using cold ingredients won't ruin your cake, per-se, but if you're looking for perfection, have everything at room temperature. Most recipes (like this classic chocolate cake ) call for eggs, butter, sugar, and other dairy products. These ingredients are meant to blend together smoothly in what's called an emulsion and trap air within the batter. Then, when the cake

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