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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 to find everything you need!

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    • Cakes
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    Bake The Seasons

    Rhubarb Is Here!

    Bake these rhubarb recipes and celebrate spring!

    • A slice of rhubarb chocolate tart on a blue plate.
      Rhubarb chocolate tart
    • A pink plate with a piece of toast topped with homemade rhubarb jam.
      Small-Batch Rhubarb Jam Recipe Without Pectin
    • Rhubarb upside down cake sliced to serve it.
      Rhubarb raspberry upside-down cake
    • Bluebarb or blueberry rhubarb crumble with a marzipan oat crumble topping in a blue baking dish with a fluted edge
      Blueberry rhubarb crisp with marzipan crumble

    See more rhubarb recipes→


    Tap Into Maple

    Make the most of maple season and bake something deliciously sweet. Here are some maple baking recipes:

    • Swirls of maple-flavoured whipped cream with maple flakes sprinkled on top.
      Maple Whipped Cream
    • 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 Sugar Cookies
    • Bourbon-maple glazed cheddar bacon biscuits | bakeschool.com
      Cheddar bacon biscuits with bourbon maple glaze

    See more maple baking recipes→

    Need Baking Help?

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

    • 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!

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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
    • Shortbread cookies cut into sticks in a square pan.
      Easy 1 2 3 Shortbread Cookies

    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 plate of puffed rice and marshmallow treats cut into squares.
      Salted Brown Butter Rice Krispies Treats
    • A plate of amaretti cookies.
      Orange Almond Amaretti Cookies
    • A plate of lemon poppy seed sugar cookies.
      Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies
    • Slicing an orange cake with poppy seeds to serve it.
      Orange Poppy Seed Cake

    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!

    • Transferring baked banana oatmeal cookies to a plate to serve them.
      Banana Oatmeal Cookies
    • White chocolate macadamia cookies on a cooling rack.
      White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies
    • A plate of chocolate chocolate chip cookies with a glass of milk.
      Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • Plates of oatmeal raisin cookies served with milk.
      Soft and Chewy Oatmeal Raisin 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
    • 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
    • Slices of chocolate babka bread
      Dark chocolate babka for Easter

    See more chocolate recipes →

    Recently Updated Articles & Recipes

    • Brown butter in a saucepan.
      How To Make Brown Butter
    • Hot cross bun on a pink plate split open and served with butter.
      Hot Cross Buns With Raisins
    • A pink glass plate with lemon bars.
      Easy Lemon Bars
    • Freshly baked molasses cookies coated in turbinado sugar on a parchment-lined sheet pan.
      Molasses Sugar Cookies

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