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    Baking Techniques

    Find out what mixing method you should use for different recipes and why, how to prep your baking pans so that things don’t stick to them, and how to check if your cake is done baking. These techniques and tricks are essential to becoming a better baker!

    • Image filled with homemade chocolate chip cookies made with different flours, including whole wheat flour, buckwheat flour, oat flour, and even corn flour (producing yellower cookies)
      The Science of Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • 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 bowl of smooth, cooked sweet potato purée ready for baking.
      How to Make Sweet Potato Purée for Pies
    • Working butter into flour with fingertips.
      Perfect Pie Crust by Hand
    • Transferring pie dough to a pie plate to make a pie crust.
      Pie Crust In A Food Processor
    • 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
    • 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
    • A perfect slice of rhubarb pie, ready to be served.
      How To Make a Lattice Pie Crust
    • Glass versus metal versus ceramic pie plate.
      Pie tools to help you make the best pies
    • How to make marmalade
    • A glass bowl of glossy chocolate sour cream frosting.
      How to Make Chocolate Fudge Frosting
    • Freshly churned tea-infused ice cream in the freezer drum
      How to make the best ice cream at home
    • Thick cream cheese frosting on a layer cake, spread with an offset spatula to create vertical streaks on the surface of the frosting.
      How to Make Thick Cream Cheese Frosting for Cakes and Piping with Less Sugar
    • 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
    • marmalade temperature experiment
      Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point
    • How to measure ingredients for baking
    • Grease and flour mini cake pan
      How to prepare cake pans for baking
    • A saucepan of homemade crème anglaise (custard sauce) that is flavoured with vanilla bean paste.
      How To Make Crème Anglaise
    • Filling éclairs with chocolate pastry cream
      How To Make Pastry Cream
    • 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
    • Italian meringue buttercream piped with 1M Wilton tip to make a rose cake
      How to make Italian meringue buttercream (recipe in grams and cups)
    • Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
      How to poach pears
    • Baking 101 How to tell if your cake is done baking text overlay over picture of golden bundt cake with dried cranberries served on white plate
      How to check if your cake is done baking
    • doughnuts
      How to make baked donuts
    • Taking the temperature of softened butter to show that it is the right temperature to make cookies with.
      Butter temperature in baking
    • Baking basics: mixing methods featuring a photo mixing cake batter using electric mixer and a photo of whisking ingredients by hand
      How to mix ingredients—Mixing methods in baking
    • Baking a pie on the bottom oven rack position.
      Oven rack position
    • spice cake
      How to stencil the top of a cake
    • Warm clarified butter in a measuring cup is golden in colour and fluid
      How to make clarified butter
    • How to bake a flat cake and make a cake rise evenly
    • 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
    • Banana bread 101: what can go wrong and how to make it right text overlaid on a freshly baked loaf of banana bread in a loaf pan
      How to make the best banana bread with tips & tricks for troubleshooting recipes
    • Poached quince cut in half in a sauté pan with simple syrup.
      How to poach quince
    • A kitchen scale with a stainless dry measuring cup, a measuring teaspoon, and a glass Pyrex liquid measuring cup
      Volume versus weight in baking
    • gluten-free-mashed-potato-cake
      How to develop a gluten-free cake recipe from mashed potato
    • How to peel pistachios
      How to peel pistachios

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    Festive Treats

    • 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 round braided boule of Christmas fruit bread on a board, sliced.
      Fruit bread
    • 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
    • A plate of ginger cookies with white chocolate chips.
      Ginger Cookies with White Chocolate

    Christmas Cookies

    • A plate of fruitcake cookies ready to be served.
      Icebox Fruitcake Cookies
    • Gingerbread cookies shaped like people decorated with white royal icing.
      Cutout Gingerbread Cookies
    • shortbread cutout cookies sandwiched with strawberry jam filling
      Jam-filled shortbread cookies
    • A plate of chocolate sugar cookies and a glass of milk.
      Chocolate Sugar Cookies
    • Freshly baked molasses cookies coated in turbinado sugar on a parchment-lined sheet pan.
      Molasses Sugar Cookies
    • Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies

    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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