title: Cakes from Scratch in Half the Time: Recipes That Will Change the Way You Bake Cakes Forever
author:  Linda West Eckhardt 
description: Linda West Eckhardt is a cooking teacher and the author of numerous cookbooks. She won a James Beard award for her radio show "Don't Talk with your Mouth Full." Originally from Texas, she currently resides in New Jersey.
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  # Introduction
  
  Cakes – The mere word itself will bring a lot of brightness in kids and
  adults. Once I used to be like that. I used to be super excited if some one
  talked about making cakes and if I pass a bakery, I used to love that heavenly
  smell and for that I would stand at that spot for 5-10 minutes. I never
  thought I would bake cakes in my life and surprisingly I have baked a lot of
  cakes in the past four years.
  
  I have gone through lots of experiments, 60% failures and 40% success stories.
  But still I love to try new recipes and see how they turn out. Any failure in
  life is supposed to be a step toward success. If you succeed the first time,
  you will never know what to do when a recipe fails and will never understand
  the reason behind it. But if you succeed after some failures, each failure
  teaches you a lesson which you will never repeat again. I wanted to share all
  my failures with you along with the reasons so that you don’t have to go
  through that failure a