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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!

    Baking with maple

    Spring is sugaring-off season, which means it's time to bake with maple!

    • Spreading maple butter filling on maple shortbread to sandwich together and make maple cream cookies.
      Maple cream cookies
    • Maple cookies cooling on a sheet pan.
      Maple cookies
    • Bourbon-maple glazed cheddar bacon biscuits | bakeschool.com
      Cheddar bacon biscuits with bourbon maple glaze
    • Maple fudge with walnuts, cut into squares, on a platter.
      Maple fudge

    See more maple recipes→

    Easter baking

    The Easter bunny is coming soon! Get ready with these Easter baking recipes!

    • 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
    • Brownies decorated with Easter eggs cut into squares to serve.
      Easter brownies with Mini Eggs
    • Freshly baked carrot muffins being served on plates with butter.
      Moist carrot muffins

    See more Easter recipes→

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    Most popular recipes

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

    • Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
      How to poach pears
    • 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
    • marmalade temperature experiment
      Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point

    What do you want to bake?

    • Cake recipes
    • 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 bowl of homemade crackers served with cheese and charcuterie.
      Sourdough discard crackers
    • A jar of active sourdough starter that has been fed and doubled in size.
      Sourdough starter
    • Peach jam served with sourdough bread and butter on the side.
      Peach jam
    • Chocolate brownie ice cream scooped into three small grey bowls with spoons.
      Chocolate brownie ice cream

    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
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime 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

    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

    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!

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    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
    • Serving pumpkin pie on black plates.
      Pumpkin pie without evaporated milk

    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.

    • 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)
    • Chocolate chip mug cake cooked directly in a mug and served with ice cream and chocolate sprinkles.
      Chocolate chip mug cake

    See more chocolate recipes →

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