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    Baking 101 Tutorials, Recipes & Baking Science How-Tos

    Learn the art of baking through detailed baking science tutorials, how-tos, and recipes from a trained Ph.D. and Le Cordon Bleu graduate. Everyone can be an expert baker. I'll show you how!

    This site is your baking resource for everything you need!

    What Do You Want to Bake?

    • Cakes
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    • Pies
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    Bake The Seasons

    Baking With Apples

    Fall is here! These are the recipes I love to bake with apples:

    • Apple jam served on a toasted English muffin
      Cinnamon Apple Jam (no pectin)
    • Serving apple and blueberry crumble with scoops of vanilla ice cream on plates.
      Apple and Blueberry Crumble
    • A plate with an apple blackberry muffin split open, served with butter and a cup of tea.
      Healthy Apple Blackberry Muffins
    • A glass of milk served with apple butter, cranberry, white chocolate chip cookies.
      Fall Cookies With Cranberries, White Chocolate And Apple Butter

    See more apple recipes→

    Pumpkin RECIPES

    'Tis the season for pumpkin spice and everything pumpkin! Try these pumpkin recipes:

    • whoopie pie
      Pumpkin Spice Whoopie Pies With Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
    • Little pumpkin tarts
      Mini pumpkin pie tarts without evaporated milk
    • Slices of pumpkin bread served on dessert plates with a cup of coffee.
      Perfect Pumpkin Loaf Cake
    • Sliced pumpkin bread on a wood cutting board
      Healthier pumpkin bread (eggless, dairy-free, vegan, less sugar)

    See more pumpkin recipes→

    ⁉️ Need Baking Help?

    Learn all about ingredients, tools, and techniques with these Baking 101 articles:

    • Baking Ingredients
    • Baking Equipment
    • Baking Science
    • Baking Vocabulary
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    Meet Janice Lawandi

    I am a chemist-turned-baker, obsessed with baking, the techniques and the science behind it. I want to share great recipes with you, and also the whys and hows of baking so we can all learn and become better bakers!

    Learn more about me →

    Most Popular Recipes

    Want to bake a batch of cookies? Here are some recipes for you to try:

    • Raspberry layer cake on a terrazzo board.
      Framboisier Cake (Fraisier With Raspberries)
    • Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
      How to poach pears
    • Shortbread cookies cut into sticks in a square pan.
      Easy 1 2 3 Shortbread Cookies
    • Concord grape and peanut butter crumble topping
      Concord grape crisp with peanut butter crumble topping

    🧪 Baking Science

    You will become a better baker with the help of a little baking science so that you can better understand the role of baking ingredients, the mixing techniques, and how to troubleshoot common baking problems.

    • Homemade chocolate chip cookies that are too thick.
      Thick Cookies And Reasons Cookies Don't Spread
    • Flat cookies that spread thin in the oven and merged together into one big cookie.
      Flat Cookies And Reasons They Spread Thin
    • Baking a pie on the bottom oven rack position.
      Oven rack position
    • The freezer plate test with a dollop of strawberry jam to show it wrinkles when it sets.
      The jam setting point and how to determine jam set

    See more baking science posts →

    Recently Published

    These are the latest recipes and articles published recently:

    • A slice of pumpkin seed cake on a pink glass dessert plate.
      Pumpkin Seed Cake
    • A slice of homemade moist zucchini bread with chocolate chips served on a black dessert plate.
      Easy Moist Zucchini Bread With Yellow Summer Squash
    • A gorgeous chocolate cheesecake decorated with swirls of whipped cream and shards of dark chocolate.
      Dark Chocolate Cheesecake
    • Serving a slice of a coffee-flavoured cheesecake with whipped cream piped around the border and chocolate-covered coffee beans.
      Coffee Cheesecake With Cardamom

    See all the latest →

    Marmalade Recipes

    Citrus season is here. Make classic orange marmalade or go crazy with a fun lime marmalade or a vanilla grapefruit marmalade:

    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange Marmalade Recipe
    • marmalade temperature experiment
      Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point
    • Three Fruit Marmalade
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade

    See marmalade recipes →

    Cookies

    Bake beautiful cookies this holiday season!

    • A plate of freshly-baked homemade snickerdoodles transferred from the cookie sheet with a spatula.
      Snickerdoodle Cookies
    • A plate of amaretti cookies.
      Orange Almond Amaretti Cookies
    • A plate of lemon poppy seed sugar cookies.
      Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies
    • Transferring baked banana oatmeal cookies to a plate to serve them.
      Banana Oatmeal Cookies

    See more cookie recipes →

    Pies

    Everybody loves pie and here's a set of recipes so that you can bake one today!

    • Sweet potato pie topped with whipped cream and grated nutmeg.
      Maple Bourbon Sweet Potato Pie
    • Working butter into flour with fingertips.
      Perfect Pie Crust by Hand
    • A perfect slice of rhubarb pie, ready to be served.
      How To Make a Lattice Pie Crust
    • A slice of quiche with rainbow Swiss chard in it, served with a small bowl of salt on the side.
      Deep Dish Quiche with Swiss Chard

    See more pie recipes →

    Chocolate Baking Recipes

    Here's a collection of the best baking recipes with chocolate, from a gorgeous chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting to simple slice-and-bake chocolate sablé cookies.

    • A square piece of a chocolate tart topped with whipped cream on a wooden board.
      Earl grey chocolate tart with whipped cream
    • A layer of chocolate cake that has been levelled with a serrated knife to create a flat top.
      Eggless Chocolate Cake
    • Slicing a chocolate and vanilla marble cake on a cutting board.
      Marble Cake With Sour Cream
    • Chocolate crackle cookies arranged on a black plate.
      Chocolate Crackle Cookies

    See more chocolate recipes →

    Recently Updated Articles & Recipes

    • Docking a tart crust before baking by pricking the dough with a fork to make holes to release steam as the crust bakes.
      How To Use A Tart Pan & Remove A Tart From A Tart Pan
    • A pink bowl of toasted pumpkin seeds with a pink spoon for serving
      Toasted pumpkin seeds
    • A plate of pancakes with maple syrup, berries and Greek yogurt.
      High-Protein Greek Yogurt Pancakes
    • Comparing Vanilla cake crumb to find the best vanilla cake recipe ever
      Best vanilla cake recipe

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