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    Baking ingredients

    If you have ever wondered what is the difference between baking soda and baking powder, or how to make baking substitutions in your favourite recipes, this page dedicated to baking ingredients is for you! Learn all about sugar in baking, how to make brown butter and how butter temperature affects baking so you can become a better baker. This is an essential part of baking 101 so bookmark this page to return to it often whenever you have a question.

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    A jar of active sourdough starter that has been fed and doubled in size.

    Sourdough starter

    An open jar of homemade vanilla extract with vanilla beans poking up above the alcohol.

    How to make vanilla extract

    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

    Different types of colourful sprinkles, quins, and sanding sugar in small bowls.

    All about sprinkles

    Mixing cinnamon with sugar to make cinnamon sugar.

    How to make cinnamon sugar

    Eggs next to a bowl on a counter with a whisk.

    Substitutes for eggs in baking

    Rubbing lemon zest into granulated sugar in a bowl to make lemon sugar.

    How to make lemon sugar

    Warm clarified butter in a measuring cup is golden in colour and fluid

    How to make clarified butter

    Homemade pumpkin purée strained through a cheesecloth.

    How to make homemade pumpkin purée for baking

    What to bake with fresh currants

    Measured out baking ingredients, including 2 large eggs, baking powder, baking soda, salt, brown sugar, butter, milk chocolate and chopped chocolate, and rolled oats in a scoop

    A guide to baking ingredients and pantry staples

    Baking ingredient substitutions guide with eggs, dairy, sugar, butter, and flour

    A guide to baking substitutions

    The different types of vanilla you can bake with featuring vanilla beans, extract, sugar, and paste

    How to bake with vanilla

    A yellow plastic container of Magic baking powder.

    Baking powder in baking

    A golden brown spice cake that is domed and cracked on top and baked in a tall cake pan

    The complete guide to leavening agents and chemical leaveners

    A square cake pan filled with chocolate cake batter that has been swirled

    How to substitute for cocoa powder with dark chocolate

    Let's bake with rhubarb-best rhubarb recipes roundup

    What to bake with rhubarb

    Maple syrup can be used to make maple butter, a spread for toast or even maple syrup pie

    What to bake with maple syrup

    The complete guide to the different chocolate types

    Let's bake with carrots-

    What to bake with carrots

    A box of Arm & Hammer baking soda on a kitchen counter.

    Baking soda in baking

    Two jars of dulce de leche from two different brands: Bonne Maman and Caramella.

    Comparison of store-bought dulce de leche

    What to bake with lemons

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    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!

    Bake for Easter

    • 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
    • A slice of carrot cake layer cake with cream cheese frosting on a pale blue plate with a fork and striped linen napkin.
      Eggless carrot cake
    • Hot cross bun on a pink plate split open and served with butter.
      How to make hot cross buns for Easter weekend

    Bake with citrus

    • Lemon loaf cake topped with lemon icing and fresh raspberries being sliced to serve it
      Lemon loaf cake
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade
    • Pavlova cake filled with whipped cream, lemon curd, and raspberries being served.
      Pavlova
    • Orange pie with saltine crust and topped with orange marmalade glaze.
      Orange pie
    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange marmalade
    • A pink glass plate with lemon bars.
      Easy lemon bars

    Baking conversions

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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!
    This is a picture of Janice Lawandi

    Hi, I'm Janice! I am a baking-obsessed recipe developer with a PhD in Chemistry who writes about baking and the science of baking.

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    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!

    Bake for Easter

    • Slices of chocolate babka bread
      Dark chocolate babka for Easter
    • carrot focaccia with feta and almonds
      Carrot focaccia
    • Let's bake with carrots-
      What to bake with carrots
    • Button-shaped cookies - Honey flavoured cookies
      Honey sugar cookies (cut-out cookies)
    • carrot cake
      Glazed carrot cake

    Bake with citrus

    • A pink plate filled with lemon shortbread cookies and with a yellow napkin.
      Lemon shortbread cookies
    • Pink grapefruit marmalade on toast on a plate with a striped linen.
      Grapefruit marmalade
    • Slices of orange cranberry cake served on pink glass plates with forks.
      Orange cranberry bundt cake
    • Rubbing lemon zest into granulated sugar in a bowl to make lemon sugar.
      How to make lemon sugar
    • Drizzling lemon cranberry muffins on a wire rack with lemon icing.
      Cranberry lemon muffins
    • A scoop of lemon ice cream served on a speckled plate with a cone and a black spoon
      Lemon custard ice cream

    Baking conversions

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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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