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Step one: Follow the Recipe After baking for a while, I've started to feel uncomfortable watching people bake without proper tools or instruction videos that don't include detailed ingredient weights, because it's hard for me to picture the final cake. Still, I think a great baker goes beyond recipes, they taste, adjust, and learn through experience and creativity. As for me, my current mission is much simpler: follow the recipe properly and make something that actually work and build experience for future bakes so I can make them faster and more delicious. I've tried baking with different techniques and tools. I've made cakes both with and without an egg beater, and I've experimented with changing some ingredients. Sometimes I joke that if I follow a recipe but only change the ingredients, will it still be successful? Once, I followed a recipe to make a passion fruit mousse, but I decided to make a matcha mousse instead because matcha was what I had. I follow...