Why do my cake not rise evenly?

Sometimes bulges in the center, sometimes cooks on the sides and not on the top.

Answer:
Form experience, I would read aloud that the oven is cooking too fast. Simply drop the temp and cook longer than required. Getting an oven thermometer is not a desperate idea any.
You don't live within Pisa, Italy, do you? :)
try this: to regulate the warmth in the oven and around the cake jar itself, try a bain-marie, which is a larger pan packed with dampen and then the cake vessel in it. This is usually used for cheesecakes to prevent cracking, but I've used it on my cake and it comes out great.

See this link for more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bain-marie...
Sounds like it's the oven. If warmth isn't maintained and steam isn't distributed evenly, a cake will not bake properly. Also, check the pan you're using, and use the type recommended for what you're baking (i.e. loaf pan for pound cake).

Good luck!
sounds to me like the grill in your oven isn't even. try putting an oven thermometer inside your oven surrounded by different locations each time and see if it comes out one and the same when you set your oven to the same heat. if that doesn't help, try using a better element set of baking pans. sometimes elder or cheaper pans don't cook evenly because the metal they are made of isn't even. they don't verbs the heat evenly to your batter. if that doesn't oblige, throw out your baking powder and buy a new box. it can receive old and not rise properly. hope those concept help you! devout luck, grmmy net
You need satisfactory powder and egg if you want it to rise up more.
Your oven is not rank and cooks unevenly.
I think it's the oven.
u might want to checl you temperature on the oven it might be too big, i use 350 degress and my cake loos great it will rise and cook evenly
it can in fact be a number of things besides bake. start with your mix could be stale,or over mixed or undermixed.type of jar to thick or to high to dark or fluffy. racks in the oven to large or to low,water temp when tally to mix,humidity in your home,elevation you see its several possiblities. i took a cake decorating course within college they gave me these concrete cool cloth strips. you can by at walmart. they are white on one side and metalic grey on the other you wrap it around the outside of your pan and it help evenly regulating the heat.at hand is even a aluminum insert to plave in the center of your mix which allows warmness to enter the center of the cakes.
Funny answers......lol
Ok.....if your cake poofs up in the middle and cracks consequently it is cooking too fast.
If the sides cook first and afterwards the middle you mixed the batter too much and broke down the gluten's in the flour..even box mix. When it say 50 strokes or 1 minute then that's what they penny-pinching.
Go to wally world and get an oven thermometer, it will backing
I took a cooking class, I be told that if you open the oven while the cake is cooking the cake will not rise.

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