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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.

    Browse through my favourite baking ingredients on my Amazon storefront.

    • A golden brown spice cake that is domed and cracked on top and baked in a tall cake pan
      Chemical Leavening Agents: What They Are & How They Work
    • Oreo cookie crust baked in a springform pan for cheesecakes.
      Oreo Cookie Crust
    • 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
    • Brown butter in a saucepan.
      How To Make Brown Butter
    • A yellow plastic container of Magic baking powder.
      What is Baking Powder
    • Homemade pumpkin purée strained through a cheesecloth.
      How to make homemade pumpkin purée for baking
    • Spreading whipped cream over pastry cream and berries in a bowl to make trifle.
      How to Make Whipped Cream
    • Rubbing lemon zest into granulated sugar in a bowl to make lemon sugar.
      How to Make Lemon Sugar
    • Small bowls of sixteen different sugars to show the difference in texture and colour of each of them.
      Sugar in baking
    • Maple syrup can be used to make maple butter, a spread for toast or even maple syrup pie
      What to bake with maple syrup
    • Mixing cinnamon with sugar to make cinnamon sugar.
      Homemade Cinnamon Sugar
    • The Complete Guide to the Different Chocolate Types
    • A jar of active sourdough starter that has been fed and doubled in size.
      Sourdough Starter
    • 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
    • A square cake pan filled with chocolate cake batter that has been swirled
      How to substitute for cocoa powder with dark chocolate
    • The different types of vanilla you can bake with featuring vanilla beans, extract, sugar, and paste
      How to bake with vanilla
    • Two jars of dulce de leche from two different brands: Bonne Maman and Caramella.
      Comparison of store-bought dulce de leche
    • Different types of colourful sprinkles, quins, and sanding sugar in small bowls.
      All about sprinkles
    • What to bake with lemons
    • A box of Arm & Hammer baking soda on a kitchen counter.
      Baking soda in baking
    • Taking the temperature of softened butter to show that it is the right temperature to make cookies with.
      Butter temperature in baking
    • Baking ingredient substitutions guide with eggs, dairy, sugar, butter, and flour
      A guide to baking substitutions
    • Pre-shaping bread dough to make a sourdough boule in a Dutch oven.
      Baking with yeast
    • A bowl of homemade vanilla sugar.
      How to make vanilla sugar
    • An open jar of homemade vanilla extract with vanilla beans poking up above the alcohol.
      How to make vanilla extract
    • Warm clarified butter in a measuring cup is golden in colour and fluid
      How to make clarified butter
    • Let's bake with rhubarb-best rhubarb recipes roundup
      What to bake with rhubarb
    • Let's bake with carrots-
      What to bake with carrots
    • Eggs next to a bowl on a counter with a whisk.
      Substitutes for eggs in baking
    • What to bake with fresh currants
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    Bake With Pumpkin

    • Serving a slice of pumpkin cheesecake topped with whipped cream.
      Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake
    • A yellow plate of baked pumpkin donuts coated in cinnamon sugar.
      Baked pumpkin donuts
    • Scoops of pumpkin ice cream in little bowls with pie crust cookies.
      Pumpkin ice cream
    • Serving pumpkin pie on black plates.
      Pumpkin Pie Without Evaporated Milk
    • A plate with a pumpkin muffin split open and smeared with butter, with a cup of coffee on the side.
      Pumpkin Muffins With Streusel Topping
    • Slices of pumpkin bread served on dessert plates with a cup of coffee.
      Perfect Pumpkin Loaf Cake

    Apple Season

    • Double crust apple pie loaded with apples.
      Maple Apple Pie
    • Slicing into an Italian apple cake to serve it.
      Old-Fashioned Apple Yogurt Cake
    • Apple jam served on a toasted English muffin
      Cinnamon Apple Jam (no pectin)
    • Apple crumb coffee cake ready to be served with cups of tea, plates and a serrated knife
      Apple Crumble Cake
    • An apple cake baked in a square baking pan.
      Apple Butter Cake with Brandy
    • Apple butter pie stencilled with icing sugar.
      Apple Butter Pie

    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!

    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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