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The Beginner's Guide to Measuring Baking Ingredients

Nothing's more frustrating than pulling a batch of cookies out of the oven only to find them flat as pancakes, or cutting into what should be a fluffy cake and discovering it's dense as a brick. Nine times out of ten, the culprit isn't your oven or bad luck—it's how you measured your ingredients. I learned this the hard way after years of "eyeballing" measurements and wondering why my grandmother's chocolate chip cookie recipe never tasted quite right when I made it. Turns out, there's actually

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