Reading the Recipe Properly 2

Trust your recipe.

It is of great importance that you trust your recipe, especially for mixing cake batter, after you mix the batter for the first little bit, it may not look like what you expect, for example. it may look like you added too much water. but DONT jump the gun! it could just simply be that the flour at the bottom hasnt been mixed in yet. If you did rush into it, and added the extra flour to try to balance it, when you fully mix it, it'll be too dry, at which point you'll try to add more water to balance it yet again, and that's when you screw up everything since the volume and amount of batter is no longer the same, the baking time will need to be adjusted, but you didnt notice this, and BAM, a half-baked cake.

Of course, this is not to be confused with my previous note of different flour absorption rates - that has assumed that you've already mixed properly.