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    • 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
    • Serving a slice of pumpkin cheesecake topped with whipped cream.
      Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake
    • A plate with a sourdough discard waffle drizzled with lots of maple syrup.
      Sourdough Discard Waffles
    • A plate of freshly-baked homemade snickerdoodles transferred from the cookie sheet with a spatula.
      Snickerdoodle Cookies
    • Slicing and serving a perfect baked vanilla cheesecake.
      Baked Cheesecake
    • Graham cracker crumbs in a springform pan lined with parchment paper, to be spread out and pressed to form a crust for cheesecakes.
      How To Make A Baked Graham Cracker Crust
    • 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
    • Swirls of maple-flavoured whipped cream with maple flakes sprinkled on top.
      Maple Whipped Cream
    • Slicing an orange cake with poppy seeds to serve it.
      Orange Poppy Seed Cake
    • A piece of gingerbread cake with cream cheese frosting and lemon curd served on a dessert plate.
      Moist Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Lemon Curd
    • Nanaimo bars cut into squares and served on a marble surface.
      Nanaimo Bars
    • A bowl of smooth, cooked sweet potato purée ready for baking.
      How to Make Sweet Potato Purée for Pies
    • 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
    • Transferring baked banana oatmeal cookies to a plate to serve them.
      Banana Oatmeal Cookies
    • Apple Blackberry Crumble
    • Slicing a blueberry crumb cake.
      Easy Blueberry Crumb Cake
    • White chocolate macadamia cookies on a cooling rack.
      White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies
    • A slice of double chocolate banana bread on a plate.
      Chocolate Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips
    • A plate of chocolate chocolate chip cookies with a glass of milk.
      Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • Scraping watermelon granita with a fork.
      Watermelon Granita
    • Spreading whipped cream over pastry cream and berries in a bowl to make trifle.
      How to Make Whipped Cream
    • Smoothing frosting on a layer of cake with a mini offset spatula.
      Thick White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting Without Powdered Sugar
    • Plates of oatmeal raisin cookies served with milk.
      Soft and Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
    • 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
    • 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
    • Brownies decorated with Easter eggs cut into squares to serve.
      Easter Brownies With Mini Eggs
    • 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
    • Baking a pie on the bottom oven rack position.
      Oven rack position
    • Peach jam served with sourdough bread and butter on the side.
      Peach Jam Without Added Pectin
    • Chocolate brownie ice cream scooped into three small grey bowls with spoons.
      Chocolate Brownie Ice Cream
    • 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
    • Scooping chocolate ice cream with an ice cream scoop into glass bowls.
      Dark chocolate ice cream
    • 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
    • An open jar of homemade vanilla extract with vanilla beans poking up above the alcohol.
      How to make vanilla extract
    • Toast served with homemade strawberry jam and butter on a pink plate.
      Strawberry jam
    • Strawberry jam with rhubarb smeared on a piece of toast on a plate.
      Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
    • 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
    • A plate of chocolate shortbread cookies that are dipped in white chocolate and sprinkled with crushed freeze-dried raspberries.
      Chocolate Shortbread Cookies
    • A bowl of homemade vanilla sugar.
      How to make vanilla sugar
    • Small bowls of sixteen different sugars to show the difference in texture and colour of each of them.
      Sugar in baking
    • Brown butter in a saucepan.
      How To Make Brown Butter
    • Pre-shaping bread dough to make a sourdough boule in a Dutch oven.
      Baking with yeast
    • Taking the temperature of softened butter to show that it is the right temperature to make cookies with.
      Butter temperature in baking
    • Homemade alfajores cookies on plates served with coffee.
      Alfajores
    • A jar of homemade milk jam viewed from the top to show the gooey, thick texture.
      How to make dulce de leche
    • A cinnamon raisin bun on a black plate being eaten, with a cup of coffee on the side.
      Cinnamon rolls with raisins
    • Chocolate chip cookies with pecans cooled on a rack being served on black plates with glasses of milk.
      Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans
    • Serving apple and blueberry crumble with scoops of vanilla ice cream on plates.
      Apple and Blueberry Crumble
    • Hand of flour and butter cut together for making scones.
      Online baking classes and resources
    • Transferring homemade apricot jam into jars to seal them.
      Apricot jam
    • Puff pastry apple tart cut into squares to serve.
      Puff Pastry Apple Tart
    • Serving scones with cheese with pickles and spicy jam.
      Scones with cheese
    • Cups of hot cocoa with cookies and mini marshmallows.
      Homemade Hot Cocoa Mix Recipe
    • A round braided boule of Christmas fruit bread on a board, sliced.
      Fruit bread
    • Different types of colourful sprinkles, quins, and sanding sugar in small bowls.
      All about sprinkles
    • Lemon loaf cake topped with lemon icing and fresh raspberries being sliced to serve it
      Lemon Loaf Cake
    • Serving pizza muffins on plates with marinara dipping sauce and chilli flakes.
      Pizza Muffins
    • Sprinkle sugar cookies on a cooling rack and on pink plates, served with glasses of milk.
      Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles
    • A layer cake on a cake stand, with parchment paper pressed up on the cut sides of the cake to help prevent drying.
      How to store cake
    • How to make marmalade
    • A stack of cake pans, one square and two rectangular loaf pans of different sizes.
      How to measure cake pan sizes
    • Spreading maple butter filling on maple shortbread to sandwich together and make maple cream cookies.
      Maple Cream Cookies
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade
    • Oreo mug cake topped with whipped cream and crushed Oreo cookies.
      OREO mug cake
    • Chocolate birthday cake with cream cheese frosting.
      Chocolate Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting (Without Eggs)
    • A bundt pan for baking bundt cakes.
      How to use a bundt pan
    • Freshly baked mincemeat cookies served with a glass of milk.
      Mincemeat Cookies
    • Transferring homemade mincemeat filling to jars to store for making mincemeat tarts.
      Homemade mincemeat
    • Chocolate chip mug cake cooked directly in a mug and served with ice cream and chocolate sprinkles.
      Chocolate chip mug cake
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    Make Marmalade

    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange Marmalade Recipe
    • 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
    • Three fruit marmalade

    Citrus Baking

    • A pink plate filled with lemon shortbread cookies and with a yellow napkin.
      Lemon Shortbread Cookies
    • gluten-free-lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-and-berries
      Gluten-free lemon cake with raspberries
    • Slicing and serving a glazed orange cake
      Orange Almond Cake (Gluten-Free + Grain-Free)
    • Removing orange rhubarb cakes from mini loaf cake pans with a mini offset spatula.
      Orange Rhubarb Cakes
    • lemon mousse
      Lemon mousse (gluten-free)
    • Slices of orange cranberry cake served on pink glass plates with forks.
      Orange Cranberry Bundt Cake

    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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