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What's the Deal with Xanthan Gum?

Unless you do a lot of gluten-free baking, you might not have come across xanthan gum before - at least not in a recipe. Flip over a jar of salad dressing or a carton of ice cream to read the ingredie...

Break with Tradition: 6 Unconventional Thanksgiving Pies

Feel like shaking things up this year? Here are six decidedly non-traditional pies that would nonetheless look perfectly at home on your Thanksgiving table!...

Baker's Challenge: How to Bake at High Altitudes

Reach a certain elevation, and suddenly cakes turn out dry, cookies won't set, and quick breads won't rise. Home bakers who live in the mountains should start their own support group! We have a few ti...

Classy and Irresistible: 8 Very Tempting Bundt Cakes

Did you know this Sunday is National Bundt Cake Day? Let's celebrate this classic confection with one of these oh-so-tempting recipes!...

Quick Tip: Chop Toasted Nuts While Still Warm

Our house seems to be constantly filled with the aroma of freshly toasted nuts this time of year! We just can't resist throwing a cup or two in just about everything we bake. Here's one tip we picked ...

Craving: Tender and Buttery Popovers

Popovers are one of those culinary marvels that we will never tire of witnessing - or eating! They start out as loose pools of batter dribbled into a baking tin and emerge from the oven a short while ...

How to Work with Frozen Puff Pastry

Pre-made and frozen puff pastry is a life saver this time of year. With a package or two stashed in our freezer, we know a quick apple tart or plate of mini-quiche appetizers is only a few steps away....

Word of Mouth: Pumpernickel

Pumpernickel, noun - An incredibly dense and strongly flavored dark bread made with a blend of coarse and fine rye flour originating in Germany. We love the heartiness and deep, almost bitter flavor ...

Waste Not: 5 Ways to Use Leftover Bread

We've been baking our own weekly bread for a while now, which has been extremely satisfying. But on the downside, we've discovered that our homemade bread stales a lot quicker than store-bought bread....

Holiday Baking: Stock Up On Nuts Now!

We'll never forget the year that we put off buying nuts for our pecan pie until the weekend before Thanksgiving and then had to go to four stores before finding one lone stale package still on the she...

Cookie Art: Painted Sugar Cookies from Martha Stewart

This is our kind of art project - the kind you can eat! Martha Stewart uses straight food coloring to get those vibrant colors and an interesting technique for applying them. Even with our limited art...

From The Spice Cupboard: Mace

Many of us probably associate "mace" with the defensive pepper spray, but the real mace is actually a pungent spice related to nutmeg! In ground form, it can turn dishes a lovely mustard yellow and ad...

Quick Tip: Store Nuts in the Freezer

We stocked up on nuts this past weekend in anticipation of all the holiday baking we have planned in the next two months. A while back, we learned that the best place to keep nuts for long-term storag...

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...

Gooey and Fudgy: Hershey's Ultimate Chocolate Brownies
Recipe Review

Got a serious chocolate craving? These brownies will do the trick and leave you wishing you had room for more. They're intensely chocolately and so fudgy you almost need a spoon. You'll definitely nee...

Kitchen Shortcut: How to Toast Nuts in the Microwave

Did you know that you can toast nuts in the microwave? Neither did we! Harold McGee mentions it in passing in the section about cooking with nuts in On Food and Cooking, and we thought we'd put it to ...

What's the Difference? Gelatin Powder, Gelatin Sheets, and Leaf Gelatin

We've been having a bit of a debate at Kitchn Central stemming from a comment left on our post about Spanish Desserts for Fall. Reader MSN asked about substituting gelatin leaf (called for in one of t...

How to Tell When Cake is Finished Baking

A dry, crumbly cake when you've been anticipating a moist, delicious one is a very sad thing. Learning how to tell the exact moment when a cake should come out of the oven can take some practice. Luck...

Impossible to Resist: Apple Cider Doughnuts

The way we see it, if you drive out to an orchard and spend a wholesome afternoon picking apples, you've earned a doughnut at the end of the day. Besides apple cider doughnuts are as seasonal as the a...

Conscientious Cook: Alternatives to Vegetable Shortening

Growing up, we always had a big can of Crisco sitting on the pantry shelf. It got used for everything from greasing pans to making the flakiest pie crust ever. Now that trans fats are drawing some jus...

Basic Techniques: How to Shape a Loaf of Bread

Now that it's finally cool enough to turn on our ovens again, we're getting back into the habit of baking bread at home. Last weekend, we made a few loaves of sandwich bread to eat during the week. ...

Waste Not! Five Ways To Use Mealy Apples

A mealy apple is no one's favorite lunchtime surprise, we can all agree on that! So what do you do when you wind up with a bunch of them in your fridge? Before just throwing them away, try using them ...

Word of Mouth: Gianduja

Gianduja (jhe-yan doo yah), noun - A smooth spread made of chocolate and ground hazelnuts, from the Piedmont region in Italy. (Variation: Gianduia) Before Nutella, there was gianduja! Do you love thi...

Crust and Crumb: A Return to Baking Bread

Our very favorite thing about fall isn't apple picking, or seeing all the great produce at the market, or even gearing up for the approaching holidays. It's the ability to turn on our oven again! And ...

Kitchen Science: Why Toast Nuts Before Baking?

Taking the extra step to toast nuts on their own when they'll just be going back into the oven again as an ingredient in a baked dish can feel like just that - an extra step. As we toasted nuts for a ...

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