When a batter like this seems dry and stiff Cheryl, it most commonly has to do with the flour measurement. Do you measure in cups, or by weight? If you are measuring your ingredients by cups, then it is tricky to get the right amount of flour into the recipe. Everyone measures a cup of flour differently depending on how compact the flour is and every cup a single baker measures will have some variations as well. This means that weighing flour is always the most exact way to measure. If you do not have a scale, we've posted a great video on our website that shows our preferred method for measuring flour for our recipes: How To Measure Flour If a recipe lists the ingredients by weight, this is always going to be the most accurate option. We may not all agree on how to measure a cup of flour, but a gram is a gram no matter who is doing the weighing. If a recipe does not have a weight listed then we will want to measure according to how the author of the recipe would measure. We hope you are able to give them another shot!

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