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Baker's Tools: Proofing Baskets and How to Use Them

Ever wonder how artisan bread bakers get such perfect round loaves every single time? Chances are that they're using a proofing basket to help the loaves keep their shape and structure through their ...

Baker's Tools: Proofing Baskets and How to Use Them

Ever wonder how artisan bread bakers get such perfect round loaves every single time? Chances are that they're using a proofing basket to help the loaves keep their shape and structure through their ...

Baker's Tools: Proofing Baskets and How to Use Them

Ever wonder how artisan bread bakers get such perfect round loaves every single time? Chances are that they're using a proofing basket to help the loaves keep their shape and structure through their ...

Recipe Review: Orange Yogurt Cake

So if it has yogurt in it, can we pretend it's healthy? Pretty please? This recipe for Orange Yogurt Cake comes from one of our favorite blogs, Farmgirl Fare. We made it for a barbecue dinner party l...

Quick n' Easy: Ways to Soften Butter

This weekend, we were halfway through assembling ingredients for a yellow cake when we realized that we'd forgotten to set out butter to soften. Again. We keep sticks of butter in the freezer, so set...

Quick n' Easy: Ways to Soften Butter

This weekend, we were halfway through assembling ingredients for a yellow cake when we realized that we'd forgotten to set out butter to soften. Again. We keep sticks of butter in the freezer, so set...

Quick n' Easy: Ways to Soften Butter

This weekend, we were halfway through assembling ingredients for a yellow cake when we realized that we'd forgotten to set out butter to soften. Again. We keep sticks of butter in the freezer, so set...

Baker's Tricks: How to Avoid Adding Too Much Flour While Kneading

Bread bakers are a calm, serene, zen-like bunch. (Right?!) But nothing gets us more paranoid than the fear of adding too much flour: too little and we have bubble-gum dough sticking to everything, to...

Good Product: Wondra Flour

Many people already use easily-dissolving Wondra Instant Flour for lump-free gravies and sauces. This wheat flour has been pre-cooked and then dried (much like instant rice), so it dissolves without s...

Good Product: Wondra Flour

Many people already use easily-dissolving Wondra Instant Flour for lump-free gravies and sauces. This wheat flour has been pre-cooked and then dried (much like instant rice), so it dissolves without s...

Recipe: Cherry Custard Tart

It is indeed cherry season here in the Bay Area, a little early but no one’s complaining. Unlike asparagus and strawberries, cherries are hard to find out of season and tend to induce a little fr...

Technique: How To Remove the Skins from Nuts

In our post last week on Dried Fig and Nut bars, we mentioned needing to remove the skins from the hazelnuts we were using. If left on, these skins can discolor your baked goods or make them taste bit...

Word of Mouth: Preferment

Preferment, noun: A combination of flour, water, and sometimes yeast that is prepared in advance (as in pre-fermentation) and then mixed into the main body of the dough as an additional ingredient. W...

Word of Mouth: Preferment

Preferment, noun: A combination of flour, water, and sometimes yeast that is prepared in advance (as in pre-fermentation) and then mixed into the main body of the dough as an additional ingredient. W...

Recipe Recommendation: Cornmeal Fennel Cookies

We were in a cookie-baking mood over the weekend, so we flipped through our cookbooks and our 3-ring binder collection of recipe printouts and magazine tear sheets. Finally we settled on a recipe we'...

Recipe Recommendation: Cornmeal Fennel Cookies

We were in a cookie-baking mood over the weekend, so we flipped through our cookbooks and our 3-ring binder collection of recipe printouts and magazine tear sheets. Finally we settled on a recipe we'...

Baker's Tricks: Getting Steam into Your Oven

Steam is an essential component for getting a classic artisan loaf with good oven spring and a crackling crust, like the sourdough loaves we've been baking lately. Short of investing in an oven with ...

Survey: What Was the Most Spectacular Birthday Cake You Ever Made or Received?

We absolutely loved the recent article in the New York Times on the peculiar emotions and struggle of baking birthday cakes. Elly Schull Meeks talks about it as a milestone and rite of passage for a m...

Survey: What Was the Most Spectacular Birthday Cake You Ever Made or Received?

We absolutely loved the recent article in the New York Times on the peculiar emotions and struggle of baking birthday cakes. Elly Schull Meeks talks about it as a milestone and rite of passage for a m...

Good Question: What Does "Short" Mean In a Recipe?

Here's a question from longtime reader JenPDX: Hi there - I am more of a cook...I am not a baker. I've come across a cookie recipe that I want to make tonight. The recipe note says that: "The dough i...

Good Question: What Does "Short" Mean In a Recipe?

Here's a question from longtime reader JenPDX: Hi there - I am more of a cook...I am not a baker. I've come across a cookie recipe that I want to make tonight. The recipe note says that: "The dough i...

Weekend Reading: Favorite Cookbooks on Baking Bread

Anyone doing any baking this weekend? We're still playing around with sourdough in our kitchen, which boils down to throwing a cup of sourdough starter in just about everything. (Pizza dough? YES! Muf...

Weekend Reading: Favorite Cookbooks on Baking Bread

Anyone doing any baking this weekend? We're still playing around with sourdough in our kitchen, which boils down to throwing a cup of sourdough starter in just about everything. (Pizza dough? YES! Muf...

Weekend Reading: Favorite Cookbooks on Baking Bread

Anyone doing any baking this weekend? We're still playing around with sourdough in our kitchen, which boils down to throwing a cup of sourdough starter in just about everything. (Pizza dough? YES! Muf...

Martha Stewart Favorite Cookie Contest

We posted earlier this week about the reader cupcake contest that recently wrapped at Martha Stewart. Now there's a reader cookie contest on, and the interesting thing is that you can see all the cook...

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