When I bake a cake or cookies, I use my <a href=”http://www.geekyhousewife.com/?p=446″>spatula</a> to mix the ingredients and then use it to transfer the batter to the cooking pan. Batter has a tendency to stay on the spatula.

This is why I always use the back of a spoon to scrape off the batter from the spatula. Then I use the spatula to scrape what sticks to the spoon. Repeating this a few times usually gets all but a little bit of the batter into the cooking pan.

I don’t like to dirty up dishes unnecessarily but this method really speeds up the baking process for me.