As with any of our scratch cake recipes, we highly recommend measuring the ingredients (especially dry ingredients) by weight with a digital kitchen scale. This will ensure that you are using the intended amount of flour, etc.  However, if you do not have a digital scale, lightly spoon the dry ingredients into your measuring cup or measuring spoons and slide a knife across the top to level. This is a much more accurate way to measure  than "scooping" the ingredients, which will pack down the dry ingredients and give you more than the intended amount.  Make sure to put a digital scale on your wish list if you don't have one. They are very reasonably priced and so helpful!