How to Bake a Cake Like a Pro | Samantha Seneviratne | Cooking 101 | NYT Cooking

How to Bake a Cake Like a Pro | Samantha Seneviratne | Cooking 101 | NYT Cooking

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Publish Date:
12 August, 2026
Category:
Baking
Video License
Standard License
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Youtube

Here are 3 free (!) recipes from the video:
Yellow Sheet Cake with Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting: https://nyti.ms/48LMIRX
Confetti Cake with Rainbow Cream Cheese Frosting: https://nyti.ms/4nkbgF4
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes: https://nyti.ms/4qmVbBa

Samantha joins us in the studio kitchen to share 3 recipes that teach you the foundational skills of baking cakes: a simple sheet cake, a layer cake and cupcakes. She shares her go-to tips for cake baking success, including the easiest and most accurate way to measure ingredients, the reverse creaming method and how to figure out the *actual* temperature of your oven.

00:00 Intro
01:22 Cake Making Tools
02:29 Yellow Sheet Cake With Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting
13:38 Confetti Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
24:44 Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes
29:17 Outro

Get more cake wisdom here: https://nyti.ms/47nD4m1

This video is part of Cooking 101, our series on kitchen fundamentals. Each episode covers a different technique, tool or ingredient, and each host shares the tips and recipes they believe will set you up for success, no matter where you are in your cooking journey.

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