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" Sometimes the best tips don&amp;#039;t involve fancy gadgets or the latest technology. Instead, it&amp;#039;s more about sensible solutions to basic problems. Here, we&amp;#039;ve rounded up some of the easiest baking tips we know that make a world of difference in the kitchen. Follow them on your way to being a better baker. 1. Measure dry and semisolid ingredients\u2014such as peanut butter, fruit preserves\u2014in dry measuring cups. 2. When you measure a powdery dry ingredient like flour or cocoa powder, gently spoon it into your measuring cup and level it off with a knife. The only ingredient you should pack into a cup is brown sugar. 3. Use clear liquid measuring cups for water, milk, honey and other liquids. Before measuring anything sticky, spray the cup with cooking spray. 4. Pour water into the empty cups of a muffin tin when you&amp;#039;re baking fewer than 12 muffins or cupcakes. The water helps the cupcakes bake and rise more evenly. 5. For brownies or bar cookies, make removal easier by lining the baking pans with nonstick foil or using regular foil coated with cooking spray. Just lift out and cut! 6. Hold baking pans over your sink when coating them with cooking spray. Any excess spray will go into your sink and not on your floor. 7. For chocolate cakes, especially ones that aren&amp;#039;t going to be frosted, use cocoa powder instead of flour to dust the greased pan. 8. Use an ice cream scoop to fill cupcake liners. Or fill a 1-qt ziptop freezer bag, cut off a corner and pipe batter into liners. 9. Always let cake layers cool in the pan for 10 minutes before inverting them onto a rack. Bundt or tube cakes need at least 15 minutes of resting time. 10. Unfrosted cakes will keep for up to two months in the freezer. 11. When serving a crowd, cut a circle in the center (place a small bowl on the cake and trace around it). Then cut the outer ring into slices. You&amp;#039;ll have nice square pieces that fit on a plate, instead of long wedges that drop off the edge. You can cut the small round middle into pieces too! 12. Keep a cake moist and make frosting it easier by spreading a &amp;quot;crumb coat&amp;quot;\u2014a thin layer of frosting over the cake\u2014and allowing it to set for 1 to 2 hours before you finish frosting and decorating. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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