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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!

    • How To Make A Baked Graham Cracker Crust
    • How to Make Sweet Potato Purée for Pies
    • Perfect Pie Crust by Hand
    • How To Make a Lattice Pie Crust
    • Oven rack position
    • Pie Crust in a Stand Mixer
    • Pie Crust In A Food Processor
    • The jam setting point and how to determine jam set
    • How To Make Brown Butter
    • Butter temperature in baking
    • Online baking classes and resources
    • How to store cake
    • How to make marmalade
    • How to measure cake pan sizes
    • How to use a bundt pan
    • How to poach pears
    • How to bake a flat cake and make a cake rise evenly
    • How to Make Thick Cream Cheese Frosting for Cakes and Piping with Less Sugar
    • How to Make Chocolate Fudge Frosting
    • How To Make Crème Anglaise
    • How To Make Pastry Cream
    • How to make clarified butter
    • How to make the best ice cream at home
    • How to prepare cake pans for baking
    • How to mix ingredients—Mixing methods in baking
    • The Science of Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • How to check if your cake is done baking
    • How to make the best banana bread with tips & tricks for troubleshooting recipes
    • How to measure ingredients for baking
    • Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point
    • How to peel pistachios
    • How to develop a gluten-free cake recipe from mashed potato
    • Volume versus weight in baking
    • How to stencil the top of a cake
    • How to use a tart pan & remove a tart from a tart pan
    • How to poach quince
    • Pie tools to help you make the best pies
    • How to make Italian meringue buttercream (recipe in grams and cups)
    • How to make baked donuts

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    Easter Treats

    • 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

    Berry Baking

    • Milk crumbs on a Momofuku Milk Bar style cake-layers of blackberry curd, almond cake, and almond frosting
      Blackberry almond cake — Milk Bar style
    • raspberry amaretti semifreddo slice
      Almond raspberry semifreddo
    • Vanilla cardamom tapioca pudding with strawberries
      Homemade tapioca pudding recipe with fresh strawberries
    • A pan of baked honey blueberry muffins with streusel topping.
      Honey blueberry muffins
    • Honey-kissed-strawberry-rhubarb crumbles
      Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble With Honey
    • A plate of raspberry financiers.
      Raspberry Financiers

    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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