Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned baker, sometimes you just have to go back to the basics. Check out these baking tips and tricks to get a good grasp on the Baking Basics, from beginner baking pointers to suggestions on how to bake in high humidity to the function of all of those ingredients. Learning the basics is always an important step towards baking perfection!
If you are an avid baker or even just a casual baker, you are definitely familiar with sugar, flour and butter. You know that sugar adds sweetness to your baked goods and flour adds stability. Butter adds delicious fat that makes baked goods melt in your mouth. Sure, these classic and necessary ingredients are amazing…
With so many choices available, I keep a wide selection of flours in my kitchen. Unbleached all-purpose white, whole wheat, cake flour, and even gluten-free. And then there’s pastry flour. But just what is pastry flour? And when should you use it instead of reaching for one of the other flours? Pastry flour has a…
Sweet or savory, puff pastry can be used in a wide variety of recipes. Crisp and light, a puff pastry should rise to several times its thickness, resulting in many layers of flaky dough. But as with practically anything in the kitchen, sometimes, things can go wrong. Either with how you make the pastry or…
No matter what time of year it is, it’s always a great time for pastry! Whether it’s a delicious berry tart, a delicate pastry with custard cream, or a lattice apple pie, they’re all favorites to my family. But to make any of those treats, you need the perfect dough. This is where things can…
You want to make a perfect pie crust. You read the recipe, you measure and mix and everything is looking great. Then, you go to roll the dough out on your work surface, and it just falls apart. The dough is no longer a nicely blended mass but instead a pile of crumbly pieces. You dejectedly…
When you are planning on baking something delicious, you may look at the recipe and wish that you could make it a little healthier. While baking typically implies that you are making sweet desserts that are known to be on the unhealthier side, this doesn’t have to be the case! There are many ways in…
While it may seem strange to think about baking pastry without an oven, there are many reasons to do so. Maybe you don’t want to turn your entire oven on and heat up the whole house in the summertime. Maybe you want to bake as they did in the days before modern ovens. Or maybe…
It doesn’t matter how amazing you are at baking, how long you have been a baker or what you are baking, eventually, you are going to mess up. I’ve been baking for many years and I still make baking errors regularly. However, my mistakes are why I can write this article with confidence and experience-…
With the numerous KitchenAid stand mixers on the market, it can be difficult to know exactly what sets each model apart. Many of us may be unsure about which mixer class would best suit our needs. Also, the overlap between the features of the different classes can add to the confusion. Because of that, I’ve…
Maybe you’re brand new to cake making or maybe you’re just looking for more cake tools to add to your collection- either way, we have you covered! I have spent years as a cake baker and decorator so I will show you the tools you really, truly need. Plus, a few tools that you might…