There’s nothing more frustrating than when you finish baking a cake, take it out the oven and see that a huge cone has formed on the top! Whether it’s in the middle of your sponge or either side, we have to chop off the whole top to make sure we get an even stack. This can massively reduce the height of your overall cake and ruin the desired look you wanted to achieve. In this tutorial I show you a few top tips that can help to prevent those annoying cones from forming on the tops of your sponges. Leaving you with flat top sponges that you can stack on top of each other without the need to chop anything off!