Hi Bella, good for you for going the distance by hand! Whether or not this works may have to do with the kind of cake you're making. A blended cake, one where all of the ingredients are simply mixed together, should be just fine mixed with a whisk. Boxed cake mixes fall into this category, for example, as do any recipes where wet and dry ingredients are mixed separately and then stirred together. A cake that uses the creaming or foam method, on the other hand, relies on mechanical leavening that comes from whipping air into the butter and sugar or eggs and may be more challenging to do by hand. For more details about the different cake mixing methods, please see our blog article on the topic. Hope this helps to make for more happy baking and less dense disappointment! Mollie@KAF

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