Shane Smith

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The Claire Byrne Show · You can be a star baker! · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

So increase the um the baking time.

Opening your oven door too early.

If you open your oven door, what happens is all that lovely hot air that's in there that's baking your delicious cake is

escapes and the cold air goes in and then it causes the structure to collapse and then you get a dip in the middle of the

Could it

As well.

That that's another thing.

So again, you can buy these um um oven thermometers because I know my oven runs ten degrees hotter than what it says on the on the digital reed.

So it's important that you can buy these, you can get them online and you just put the the wire into your oven and you have a digital reed outside and it'll tell you exactly what the core temperature is because every oven will differ.

If the seal is broken or if it's older oven or a newer oven, it might run hotter or colder.

So understanding the temperature of your oven is really important.

So you

And it's expensive.

You know, Christmas cakes are expensive to make the amount of dried fruit that you're putting in there and alcohol as well.

Um so what I'd say to you is again, oven too hot.

If your oven is too hot, what happens is the outside of your cake starts to cook um and the middle uh doesn't cook obviously as fast and then it can crack on top.

So if your oven temperature generally for a Christmas cake, I have my oven set a lower temperature than you generally would for a sponge, because you might have to cook it for up to

an hour and a half or two hours, depending on how big it is.

Um your tin is too small.

So think about it.

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