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Depends on the cake
Sponge, chiffon and angel food cakes don’t take kindly to being disturbed during baking. Most other cakes, from butter cakes through to rich fruit cakes, can be shuffled around in the oven as required.
Rich fruit cakes are particularly tolerant and can be relocated from quite early in the baking process, say from 30 minutes on. Other types of cakes need to have started to firm up.
Timing is everything
As a guide, once half the baking time has expired feel free to move them around, but do it smartly – your oven will be losing heat while the door is open.
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