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Learn a few tips on preparing baked desserts to ensure they come out soft and tasty.

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Baked Dessert Preparation Tips Narrator: Essential information from Fine Living. Pamela Sturkey: Here are a couple of tips for making desserts at home. When you do cookies, you want to make sure that your butter is soft but it can’t be too soft. If it’s too soft, your cookies will go very flat in the oven. When you’re mixing, if you overmix, then have a tough cookie. If you overmix, that’ll be flat. Cookies are very temperamental. If you’re cracking eggs, you’re going to always try to do them when they’re cold. If you try to crack them when they’re warm, a lot of times you’ll have the yolk split because they get too soft. A lot of people have trouble when they bake fruit pies because it is a wet mixture that the bottoms aren’t done enough. And the big problem for that is that you don’t have your oven at a high enough temperature. It should be 375, sometimes 385 and it’ll be done at the same time. When you are cutting cakes, you want to always remember to use a hot, wet knife then you dry it, then you slice it down into the -- in between each slice that really don’t get full of crumbs on each piece, they look very professional. Narrator: Find more at fineliving.com.