Five common baking mistakes and how to make them better. Successful baked goods depend on the right temperature.

If you take out a cake or even a batch of brownies or blondies when the faster-hardening edges seem to be done, the center may still be raw. You didn't weigh the ingredients. You baked in a glass pan instead of a metal pan. Your oven wasn't at the right Temperature. You weren't using the correct baking dish. You used the wrong type of pan.