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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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    Bake With Rhubarb

    • 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
    • Let's bake with rhubarb-best rhubarb recipes roundup
      What to bake with rhubarb
    • Bluebarb or blueberry rhubarb crumble with a marzipan oat crumble topping in a blue baking dish with a fluted edge
      Blueberry rhubarb crisp with marzipan crumble

    Maple Season

    • Double crust apple pie loaded with apples.
      Maple Apple Pie
    • Serving maple cinnamon buns from the baking pan with a spatula.
      Maple Cinnamon Buns
    • Homemade maple butter
      How to Make Homemade Maple Butter
    • Maple syrup custard pie
      Maple Syrup Pie
    • Maple fudge with walnuts, cut into squares, on a platter.
      Maple fudge
    • Maple syrup can be used to make maple butter, a spread for toast or even maple syrup pie
      What to bake with maple syrup

    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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