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Posts tagged “Baking Supplies”

Holiday Baking: Bake-and-Give Pans

We love bringing quick breads and pound cakes to holiday gatherings, but struggle with ways to make them look pretty when we present them to our hosts. The folks at King Arthur Flour are way ahead of ...

Where Can I Find Yoga Pose Cookie Cutters?
Good Questions

Q: I am looking for these cookie cutters that make really adorable gingerbread people in various yoga poses. Do you know where I could find some? I'd love to find a store in Manhattan (or surroundin...

Snowy Village Cakelet Pan from Williams-Sonoma

Oh boy! It's that time of year! Fun baking pans! Here's the latest Nordic Ware holiday pan for Williams-Sonoma: a little village of cakelets. ...

Kitchen Organization: Putting An Old Muffin Tin To Use!

About to toss an old dented muffin tin in the Goodwill box, we changed our minds. Maybe we won't be using it to bake any more muffins, but we can definitely give it a second life as a drawer organizer...

Good Tool: Cookie Scoops

Between the baking bug that got us as soon as the weather turned cool and the holiday baking we see looming on the horizon, we're thinking it might be about time to invest in a good set of cookie scoo...

Is It OK for Older Pans to Have a Patina?
Good Questions

Q: Should baking pans be spotless or should they have the patina of use? As you can see, the cups are clean and ready for batter, but the rest of the pan shows evidence of numerous muffin/cupcake ba...

Have You Tried This Recycled Aluminum Foil?

According to Reynolds, this product debuted back in April or May, but we haven't noticed it in our local grocery stores. It's foil made from 100 percent recycled aluminum. We already recycle our alumi...

Handmade Recycled Potholders: Fat Tomato Designs

Most handmade oven mitts and potholders we've found are cute, but not all of them seem up to the task of regular use with a hot oven. With Fat Tomato Designs, we found the best of both worlds – sw...

Favorite Party Helper: Soufflé Cups In All Sizes

We thought it was time to spotlight one of our very, very favorite kitchen helpers: Paper soufflé cups! They are ultra-cheap and recyclable, and we use them for everything from ice cream to muf...

Quick Tip: Use Parchment Paper as Muffin Cup Liners

We think this is an ingenious idea from Martha Stewart! It will be an especially handy trick for those times when we run out of liners in the middle of a batch of muffins. And it looks elegant, too - ...

Portion Size Solution: Bite-Sized Brownie Pan from Wilton

Sarahrae's recipe a few weeks back for Brownie Bites To Go and her strategies for cutting the bars down to size reminded us of this pan from Wilton. Before you roll your eyes and point out that we are...

LEGO In the Kitchen: 5 LEGO Kitchen Accessories

We can't help it; we are total nerds for LEGO stuff. Remember this slightly goopy attempt at a LEGO birthday cake? And LEGO fosters that nerd-nostalgia for building blocks of youth with all the kitc...

Cast Iron Pie Pans: Have You Ever Used One?

We've heard of aluminum, Pyrex, ceramic and perforated pie pans but never cast iron until we ran across this example on Amazon. It has a solid five-star review from six customers who say that the cas...

Scooping in Style! Bulk Bin Scoops at Home

We've recently started coveting the scoops in the bulk storage bins at our local grocery. They fit in our hand so nicely, they're easy to maneuver in the bin, and they scoop without spilling! We can t...

Mix and Match Robots: Twist And Press Cookie Cutters

Remember those books from childhood that were cut crosswise into flaps so you could mix and match characters or scenes throughout the book? You could turn over just the middle flap, or the bottom one,...

Can You Help Me Find This Little French Pot?
Good Questions

Q: I've been looking for these fabulous metal French pots, with no results, ever since I saw them at Blue Ribbon Bar. Then today I'm watching The French Chef's cheese soufflé episode and lo and...

Hot or Not? Wilton Combo Cookie and Brownie Cutters

We just spied these combo cutters at a craft store, and we're curious what you think. They are ostensibly for cutting shaped pieces out of brownies with a minimum of waste scraps, but we also think th...

Spoon-Shaped Sugar Cookies for Ice Cream Sundaes

A little twist on the old-fashioned wooden ice cream spoons that we used as kids... This image is from Martha Stewart Living, which offers a template for cutting your own spoon shapes with a paring kn...

Essential Baking Tools: Silpat

Do you use a silpat for your baking? These flexible, reusable sheets jumped from professional kitchens to home kitchens a few years back, and now we can't imagine baking without one. They're one of th...

Online Store: Bake It Pretty

Are you looking for candy sugar eyes? Pale pink, ultra-thin foil to wrap your truffles? Maybe you need a cookie cutter shaped like a gnome or some special cupcake liners? Take a look at Bake It Pre...

Good Question: Help Me Find a Flour Container

Sheri is looking for a good flour canister. Can you help?I am completely hooked on Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day (which I originally spotted on your site). I haven't bought bread at a store in two ...

Brownie Pops! Wilton Brownie Pop Mold

Pops! Cake pops, cheesecake pops and even bacon pops have been on our radar lately, and it seems like bakeware manufacturers are eyeing them as well. Take a look at these new Brownie Pop molds from Wi...

Looking For: The Best Oil Mister

I use quite a lot of spray oil in my kitchen. I use it for greasing pans, coating balls of bread dough, and for lightly greasing skillets before frying onions or other vegetables. Well, I am fed up wi...

Cherry on Top: Reusable Cupcake Toppers

Take a look at this sweet cupcake with a cherry on top. Well, it's not actually a cherry; it's just as cute but more practical. ...

Bake a Hungry Caterpillar: New Caterpillar Cakelet Pan

Here's a piece of spring morning whimsy. Do you remember this very hungry caterpillar cake? It was such a cute idea, and so well-done. Well, if you'd like to bake a caterpillar cake of your own, there...