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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!

    Baking a pie on the bottom oven rack position.

    Oven rack position

    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

    Transferring pie dough to a pie plate to make a pie crust.

    Pie crust in a food processor

    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

    Brown butter in a saucepan.

    How to make brown butter

    Taking the temperature of softened butter to show that it is the right temperature to make cookies with.

    Butter temperature in baking

    Hand of flour and butter cut together for making scones.

    Online baking classes and resources

    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

    How to make marmalade

    A stack of cake pans, one square and two rectangular loaf pans of different sizes.

    How to measure cake pan sizes

    A bundt pan for baking bundt cakes.

    How to use a bundt pan

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.

    How to poach pears

    How to bake a flat cake and make a cake rise evenly

    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

    How to make chocolate fudge frosting for cakes

    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

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

    How to make clarified butter

    Freshly churned tea-infused ice cream in the freezer drum

    How to make the best ice cream at home

    Grease and flour mini cake pan

    How to prepare cake pans for 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

    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)

    How to make the best chocolate chip cookies

    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

    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

    How to measure ingredients for baking

    marmalade temperature experiment

    Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point

    How to peel pistachios

    How to peel pistachios

    gluten-free-mashed-potato-cake

    How to develop a gluten-free cake recipe from mashed potato

    A kitchen scale with a stainless dry measuring cup, a measuring teaspoon, and a glass Pyrex liquid measuring cup

    Volume versus weight in baking

    spice cake

    How to stencil the top of a cake

    A tart pan with tart dough fitted inside and a fork to prick the pastry to allow air and steam to escape during blind baking

    How to use a tart pan & how to remove a tart from a tart pan

    Poached quince cut in half in a sauté pan with simple syrup.

    How to poach quince

    Apple pie being made with bottom crust in pan, topped with apple pie filling, scissors for trimming excess crust around edges and a little cup of flour for dusting if more pastry rolling is needed

    How to make all-butter pie dough & tools to help you make the best pies

    Italian meringue buttercream piped with 1M Wilton tip to make a rose cake

    How to make Italian meringue buttercream (recipe in grams and cups)

    doughnuts

    How to make baked donuts

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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 with this easy recipe!

    Bake with citrus

    • Lemon loaf cake
    • Lime marmalade
    • Pavlova
    • Orange pie

    Baking conversions

    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This simple poached pears recipe is easy and you can use the fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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