Baking a Sponge Cake

Once the cakes are cooled you just need to take a sharp knife and try to even out the cake. You could also try tapping the cake pan on the counter before placing it in the oven to make sure that the batter is spread evenly in the pan.

when baking sponges or any cake always have more mixture around the sides and a slight hallow in the middle this stops the bump that you get when you bake it .experiment each time you bake until you do not even have to think about it it's automatic cheers

you can cut off the "mounds" with a long knife so that the cakes are flat. (for future reference)they also sell strips that go around the outside of the pan when you bake the cake to keep the mound in the middle from forming.

There are special liners to put around cake tins for this sort of stuff. I think they say it helps to even out the heat distributed to the cake so it rises evenly. I tried what the other person suggested before and it did not work out so well for me (maybe I'm not as skilled as I like to think!) One solution is to take a long knife and just run the blade over the top of the cake from the edge cutting out the bump in a middle and you can always eat the little bump or make a few cake balls from it MMM. That is what I do cause the frosting will cover up the cut anyway.

Yea i had that problem. I just added a bit extra flour and it worked just fine.