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help with baking cake for cake decorating?

I live in colorado and want to start a small cake business, When i have made cakes in the past they always are kinda humped in the middle after done where it has risen but how do i get my cakes to be completely flat like on the shows ? do i just cut the top to make it flat or?

The hump can be prevented from forming.
The reason you get a hump is because: the sides of the cake pan get very hot and cook the cake around the edges, next to the pan, before the batter gets a chance to rise all the way to the top of the pan. The center of your cake continues to rise…forming a dome.
What you have to do is…keep the sides of the pan cooler so the cake has time to rise to the top of the pan before it cooks.
The way to do this is to take a damp (not drippy wet) strip of towel and wrap it around the sides of the pan and secure the end with a metal safety pin. This works awesome and your cake will be completely flat.
Here is a video clip showing someone wrapping the cake pan.

http://www.monkeysee.com/play/983-cake-d…

I have been a professional cake decorator for over 30 years. This method works for a level cake every time…plus the texture of your cake is uniform as the sides and center rise the same. If you just push the center of the cake down then it is going to be more compact than what the edges are and if you just cut the dome off then the center of the cake is still going to be a lighter texture than what the edges of the cake are. The towel method is the only way to assure that your cake will rise the same all the way across your pan.
It does help if you get a heavy cake pan to bake in. Parrish Magic line is a terrific cake pan and I find I don’t even have to use the towels on it. Those sides stay cool on it.

http://www.amazon.com/Parrish-Magic-Line…

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