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Oven Chart for Baked Goods

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Use Encharted Cook's Oven Chart for Baked Goods - find ideal temperatures and baking times for cakes, cookies, breads, muffins & more in °F & °C.

Welcome to your go-to baking reference - the Oven Chart for Baked Goods from Encharted Cook. This comprehensive chart covers standard baking temperatures and times (in both °F and °C) for everything from biscuits, bread, cakes, cookies, custards, to muffins, and pastries.

Whether you're following a vintage recipe with vague instructions or just want a reliable guideline for your baking projects, this chart helps you bake with confidence every time.

A chart listing various baked goods, oven temperatures in F and C, and the time in minutes to bake them.
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Why You Need This Oven Chart for Baked Goods

If you are a person who collects recipes from other cooks, you might find that the instructions for the baking temperatures and times for baked goods are incomplete or missing. So, this chart can help you find the oven temperature and baking times for the most commonly baked goods.

Because I can tell you very confidently that I have many recipes in my cooking library that has the name of the recipe and just a simple list of ingredients jotted on a sheet of paper or a recipe card. Most of the time, I can piece together what is implied or missing. However, I sometimes need to refer to these charts to fill in the details.

To successfully use this chart, begin your bake with the lowest temperature listed if a range of temperatures is indicated. Then bake for the least amount of time listed and increase the baking time as needed.

Fan Ovens

Fan ovens greatly speed up the time it takes to bake. Reduce the temperature by 25°F (~4°C ) and slightly reduce the length of baking time to compensate.

How to Convert Vintage Oven Heat Descriptions

Occasionally, you might also come across a vintage recipe that does not list an exact oven temperature and instead states "slow", "moderate", or perhaps "moderately hot". These were common notations used in recipes written prior to 1900 and have persisted through the last mid-century.

This additional chart converts these oven heat descriptions into degrees of Fahrenheit and Celcius, plus also a gas mark number.

A chart that converts oven heat descriptions like "moderate" to temperatures and gas numbers.

These two charts should cover all of your needs for converting vintage recipe temperature notes, or the lack of them, into modern baking temperatures and times for baking.

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About Jan Nunes

Jan is the creator and owner of Encharted Cook. Her cooking and baking journey began more than 50 years ago and she specializes in showing how recipes and ingredients can work together and why. At Encharted Cook you can rely on proven recipes and take your cooking and baking up to the next level.

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  1. Sanaz says

    Thanks for the baking condition info, are these temperature and time related to deck oven or convection? If its for convection, how about the fan speed? would be great to add type of the oven,
    Thanks

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    • Jan Nunes says

      Hi Sanaz, Thank you for your questions! These charts are for a conventional oven and I have added a more prominent clarification in the first paragraph to make it clearer.
      There is additional information regarding how to adjust for a convection oven in the text of the post. However, although fan speed is a setting for some ovens, I personally do not have that setting.
      These are great questions, and I thank you for asking them!
      Have a wonderful day! ~Jan 😊

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