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Bread and rolls
When baking bread, preheat the oven, unless instructions state
otherwise.
Never pour water into the hot oven.
Baking tips
Cakes on trays
Accessories
Level
Type of heat
-
ing
Temperature
in °C
Cooking time
in minutes
Sponge mixture or yeast dough with dry
topping
Baking tray
2
%
170-190
20-30
Sponge mixture or yeast dough with moist
topping, fruit
Baking tray
3
%
170-190
40-50
Swiss roll (preheat)
Baking tray
2
%
190-210
15-20
Plaited loaf with 500 g flour
Baking tray
2
%
160-180
30-40
Stollen with 500 g flour
Baking tray
3
%
160-180
60-70
Stollen with 1 kg flour
Baking tray
3
%
150-170
90-100
Strudel, sweet
Baking tray
2
%
180-200
55-65
Börek
Baking tray
2
%
180-200
40-50
Pizza
Baking tray
2
%
220-240
25-35
Small baked products
Accessories
Level
Type of heat
-
ing
Temperature in
°C
Cooking time in
minutes
Biscuits
Baking sheet
3
%
150-170
10-20
Viennese whirls (preheat)
Baking sheet
3
%
140-150
30-40
Almond biscuits
Baking sheet
2
%
110-130
30-40
Meringue
Baking sheet
3
N
80-100
100-190
Choux pastry
Baking sheet
2
%
200-220
30-40
Puff pastry
Baking sheet
3
N
190-210
20-30
Yeast cakes
Baking sheet
3
%
180-200
20-30
Bread and rolls
Accessories
Level
Type of heat
-
ing
Temperature
in °C
Cooking time
in minutes
Yeast bread with 1.2 kg flour
Baking tray
2
%
270
200
8
35-45
Sourdough bread with 1.2 kg flour Baking tray
2
%
270
200
8
40-50
Bread rolls, e.g. rye bread rolls(do
not preheat)
Baking tray
4
%
200-220
20-30
You want to bake according to your own
recipe.
Use similar items in the baking tables as a guide.
How to tell whether sponge cake is baked
through.
Approximately 10 minutes before the end of the baking time specified in the recipe, stick a
cocktail stick into the cake at the highest point. If the cocktail stick comes out clean, the cake
is ready.
The cake collapses.
Use less fluid next time or set the oven temperature 10 degrees lower. Observe the speci
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fied mixing times in the recipe.
The cake has risen in the middle but is
lower around the edge.
Do not grease the sides of the springform cake tin. After baking, loosen the cake carefully
with a knife.
The cake goes too dark on top.
Place it lower in the oven, select a lower temperature and bake the cake for a little longer.
The cake is too dry.
When it is done, make small holes in the cake using a cocktail stick. Then drizzle fruit juice
or an alcoholic beverage over it. Next time, select a temperature 10 degrees higher and
reduce the baking time.
The bread or cake (e.g. cheesecake)
looks good, but is soggy on the inside
(sticky, streaked with water).
Use slightly less fluid next time and bake for slightly longer at a lower temperature. For
cakes with a moist topping, bake the base first. Sprinkle it with almonds or bread crumbs
and then place the topping on top. Follow the recipe and baking times.
The cake is unevenly browned.
Select a slightly lower temperature to ensure that the cake is baked more evenly. Bake deli
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cate pastries on one level using
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Top/bottom heating. Protruding greaseproof paper can
affect the air circulation. For this reason, always cut greaseproof paper to fit the baking tray.
The bottom of a fruit cake is too light.
Place the cake one level lower the next time.