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Whipped Cream: The Secret to Beautiful Cakes?

This whipped cream won't be going on top of the cake. No, it's destined to go inside! This unusual technique calls for folding whipped cream into the cake batter, and the result? The most luscious, ve...

5 Quick Rise Bread Recipes & 5 Ways To Make Them Better

Quick rise breads are an easy addition to most any table, holiday or no. They are a great way to use up left over fruits and vegetables and more often than not, you'll find yourself or a loved one s...

Baking Tip: Sprinkle Sea Salt on Your Sweets

Last summer, the summer of the New York Times Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies, was the first time we read (or at least remembered reading) about adding sea salt to the tops of baked goods. Now we're...

Baked Goods (& Butter) for the Thanksgiving Bread Basket
Recipe Roundup

What with all the talk of turkey, sweet potatoes, and pie, bread is often a last-minute decision for Thanksgiving. Who needs bread when there's stuffing? Well, in my family, that is not the case. My...

Culinary Blank Slate: The Bagel

We've been daydreaming about bagels ever since our discussion of chewy versus soft last week. A good bagel is really a blank slate for so many delicious toppings. What's your favorite?...

Stop! Don't Re-Roll Your Scraps!

Every food guru on the planet tell us that re-rerolling our scraps of dough, be it cookies, pie crusts or biscuits, won't make for the prettiest goods. Although we all know it's true, we usually try...

Baking Holiday: Celebrating Pi Day with Pie

Nerdy bakers have a particular reason to love March 14th. Tomorrow's date, 3/14, resembles the mathematical constant of pi (3.14159). And what better way to celebrate pi than to make pie? ...