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Solutions to Common Baking Problems
For best cooking results, heat the oven before baking cookies, breads, cakes, pies or pastries, etc. There is no need to
preheat the oven for roasting meat or baking casseroles.
The cooking times and temperatures needed to bake a product may vary slightly from your previously owned appliance.
Baking Problems
Cookies and biscuits
burn on the bottom.
Cakes too dark on
top or bottom.
Causes
• Cookies and biscuits put into •
oven before the preheating time
is completed. •
Baking Problems and Solutions Chart
Corrections
Oven rack is overcrowded.
Dark pans absorb heat too fast.
Allow oven to preheat to desired temperature before
placing food in oven.
Choose pan sizes that permit 2" to 4" (5.1 cm to 10.2
cm) space on all sides when placed in the oven.
Use a medium weight baking sheet.
• Cakes put in oven before
preheating time is completed.
• Rack position too high or too low.
• Oven too hot.
• Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature
before placing food in the oven.
• Use proper rack position for baking needs.
• Set oven temperature 25°F (13°C) lower than
recommended.
Cakes not done in
center.
• Oven too hot.
• Incorrect pan size.
• Pan not centered in oven.
Set oven temperature 25°F (13°C)lower than
recommended.
• Use pan size suggested in recipe.
• Use proper rack position and place pan to allow 2"
to 4" (5.1 cm to 10.2 cm) space on all sides of pan.
Cakes not level.
Foods not done when
cooking time is over.
• Range not level.
• Pan too close to oven wall or
rack overcrowded.
• Pan warped.
• Oven too cool.
• Oven overcrowded.
• Oven door opened too
frequently.
Place a marked glass measuring cup filled with
water on the center of the oven rack. If the water
level is uneven, refer to the installation instructions
for leveling the range.
Be sure to allow 2" to 4" (5.1 cm to 10.2 cm)
clearance on all sides of each pan in the oven.
Do not use pans that are dented or warped.
Set oven temperature 25°F (13°C) higher than
suggested and bake for the recommended time.
Be sure to remove all pans from the oven except the
ones to be used for baking.
Open oven door only after shortest recommended
baking time.
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