HIGH ALTITUDE CAKE BAKING

High altitude cooking can be very entertaining if you have recently moved into a high altitude area or you are unfamiliar with cooking at high altitudes. For the purpose of these hints, high altitude is considered anything over 1,000 feet above sea level. Although there is no magic equation these tips might help you out if you are unable to get good results from your recipe.

If you are baking a cake that uses fat or chocolate, you may have to experiment a bit by decreasing the shortening a bit and adding an extra egg.

This will help keep the cake from falling.

If you are still having problems you can try decreasing your oven temperature by about 20º and slightly decrease the cooking time also.