Over the past couple of months, I’ve been busy baking lots of bread & cakes and getting to know our new oven. I discovered Wilton Bake Even Strips over on Amazon last week and never even knew a thing like this even existed!

All you need to do is soak one in a bit of water and wrap it around the circumference of your cake tin before it goes into the oven. Apparently, it stops your cake from cracking on the top (something that cheesecakes are especially prone to) or forming that little hillock in the centre. Just the trick for achieving perfectly flat cakes needed for beautiful looking iced tops and jam-filled layers!