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    Baking 101 Tutorials, Recipes & Baking Science How-Tos

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

    This site is your baking resource to find everything you need!

    Recipes To Bake With Pumpkin

    It's fall y'all! Time to crack open a can of pumpkin and start baking! Here are a few pumpkin baking recipes for you to try!

    • A yellow plate of baked pumpkin donuts coated in cinnamon sugar.
      Baked pumpkin donuts
    • Scoops of pumpkin ice cream in little bowls with pie crust cookies.
      Pumpkin ice cream
    • Serving pumpkin pie on black plates.
      Pumpkin pie without evaporated milk
    • A plate with a pumpkin muffin split open and smeared with butter, with a cup of coffee on the side.
      Pumpkin muffins

    See more pumpkin recipes→

    Baking With Apples

    Apple season starts in late August. Here are all the things you can bake with apples!

    • Serving apple and blueberry crumble with scoops of vanilla ice cream on plates.
      Apple and blueberry crumble
    • Puff pastry apple tart cut into squares to serve.
      Puff pastry apple tart
    • Apple tart tatin featuring honeycrisp apples.
      Apple tarte tatin
    • Apple galette being sliced and served
      Easy apple galette

    See more apple recipes→

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    Most Popular Recipes

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

    • Banana bread sliced on a cutting board.
      Banana bread without baking soda
    • Thick cream cheese frosting on a layer cake, spread with an offset spatula to create vertical streaks on the surface of the frosting.
      How to make thick cream cheese frosting for cakes and piping with less sugar
    • Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
      How to poach pears
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade

    What Do You Want To Bake?

    • Cakes
    • Cookies
    • Pies
    • Ice creams

    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 →

    Recent Recipes

    These are the latest recipes and articles published recently:

    • A perfect slice of rhubarb pie, ready to be served.
      How To Make a Lattice Pie Crust
    • A plate of chocolate financiers ready to be eaten.
      Chocolate Financiers
    • Mini Eggs cookies cooling on a wire rack.
      Easy Mini Eggs Cookies
    • Mini Egg bars cut into squares and served on small plates with a glass of milk on the side and a bowl of Mini Eggs.
      Mini Eggs blondies

    See all the latest →

    Marmalade Recipes

    Citrus season is upon up. Make marmalade, whether that's the classic orange marmalade or a fun lime marmalade:

    • How to make marmalade
    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange marmalade
    • Pink grapefruit marmalade on toast on a plate with a striped linen.
      Grapefruit marmalade
    • marmalade temperature experiment
      Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point

    See Marmalade recipes →

    Baking 101

    Learn all about baking ingredients, tools, techniques here:

    • Baking Ingredients
    • Baking Resources
    • 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 →

    Cookies

    Bake beautiful cookies this holiday season!

    • A plate of chocolate shortbread cookies that are dipped in white chocolate and sprinkled with crushed freeze-dried raspberries.
      Chocolate shortbread cookies
    • Homemade alfajores cookies on plates served with coffee.
      Alfajores
    • Chocolate chip cookies with pecans cooled on a rack being served on black plates with glasses of milk.
      Chocolate chip cookies with pecans
    • Sprinkle sugar cookies on a cooling rack and on pink plates, served with glasses of milk.
      Sugar cookies with sprinkles

    See more cookie recipes →

    Pies

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

    • 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
    • Shaggy pie dough on a piece of plastic wrap to gather it into a disk and wrap it to chill.
      Pie crust in a stand mixer
    • Transferring pie dough to a pie plate to make a pie crust.
      Pie crust in a food processor
    • Orange pie with saltine crust and topped with orange marmalade glaze.
      Orange pie

    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.

    • Chocolate brownie ice cream scooped into three small grey bowls with spoons.
      Chocolate brownie ice cream
    • Scooping chocolate ice cream with an ice cream scoop into glass bowls.
      Dark chocolate ice cream
    • Cups of hot cocoa with cookies and mini marshmallows.
      Hot cocoa mix
    • Chocolate birthday cake with cream cheese frosting.
      Chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting (eggless)

    See more chocolate recipes →

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