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    Baking School

    Become a better baker with these guides focused on techniques, baking science, tips and tricks, and baking ingredients.

    And if you are a new baker, please visit the baking starter's guide to get a run-through of what you need to know before you start on your baking journey!

    • Brown butter in a saucepan.
      How To Make Brown Butter
    • A bundt pan for baking bundt cakes.
      How to use a bundt pan
    • A stack of cake pans, one square and two rectangular loaf pans of different sizes.
      How to measure cake pan sizes
    • Small bowls of sixteen different sugars to show the difference in texture and colour of each of them.
      Sugar in baking
    • Hand of flour and butter cut together for making scones.
      Online baking classes and resources
    • Docking a tart crust before baking by pricking the dough with a fork to make holes to release steam as the crust bakes.
      How to use a tart pan & remove a tart from a tart pan
    • Different types of colourful sprinkles, quins, and sanding sugar in small bowls.
      All about sprinkles
    • Taking the temperature of softened butter to show that it is the right temperature to make cookies with.
      Butter temperature in baking
    • Baking a pie on the bottom oven rack position.
      Oven rack position
    • A jar of homemade milk jam viewed from the top to show the gooey, thick texture.
      How to make dulce de leche
    • 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
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    Make Marmalade

    • How to make marmalade
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime 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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