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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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    Bake The Seasons

    Mad For Maple

    As a Quebecer, maple syrup is very special. Here are some recipes to bake with maple this spring:

    • 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 recipes→

    Spring Rhubarb

    Here comes the rhubarb! Get ready with these rhubarb recipes:

    • Strawberry jam with rhubarb smeared on a piece of toast on a plate.
      Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
    • Freshly baked rhubarb crumble ready to be served.
      Rhubarb Crumble
    • Rhubarb upside down cake sliced to serve it.
      Rhubarb Raspberry Upside-Down Cake
    • Serving rhubarb muffins on plates with a side of butter.
      Rhubarb Muffins With Sour Cream And Streusel

    See more rhubarb 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 gorgeous chocolate cheesecake decorated with swirls of whipped cream and shards of dark chocolate.
      Dark Chocolate Cheesecake
    • A glass of milk served with apple butter, cranberry, white chocolate chip cookies.
      Fall Cookies With Cranberries, White Chocolate And Apple Butter
    • Serving a slice of a coffee-flavoured cheesecake with whipped cream piped around the border and chocolate-covered coffee beans.
      Coffee Cheesecake With Cardamom
    • Oreo cookie crust baked in a springform pan for cheesecakes.
      Oreo Cookie Crust

    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
    • 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
    • A layer of chocolate cake that has been levelled with a serrated knife to create a flat top.
      Eggless Chocolate Cake

    See more chocolate recipes →

    Recently Updated Articles & Recipes

    • Cookie ice cream
    • Homemade jam-filled shortbread cookies with little cutout windows shaped like hearts and stars.
      Jam Shortbread Cookies
    • Butter tarts stacked on a beige plate with one cut open with a fork to reveal the gooey filling.
      How to make butter tarts without corn syrup (including a flaky all-butter crust)
    • Freshly baked mincemeat cookies served with a glass of milk.
      Mincemeat Cookies

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