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Posts tagged “baking”

Old-Fashioned Vinegar Pie for Pi Day
Recipe Reviews

Pi Day is Sunday! (It's March 14, which is 3.14, or pi. Get it?) This mathematically-significant date has a sweet and serendipitous homophone, and we're glad to take any excuse to eat extra pie. Are y...

How to Keep Rising Bread Dough from Sticking?
Good Questions

Q: I love to bake fresh bread and aspire to the tall, fluffy loaves in bakery windows. However, whenever I cover the rising dough with a towel, after it's risen it will inevitably stick to the towel a...

How Can I Make a Jack Daniels or Whiskey Simple Syrup?
Good Questions

Q: I'd like to make a variation on Shirley Temple cupcakes, and recreate them as Jack & Gingers. My husband adores this drink. I am looking for any thoughts on how I might go about creating a Ja...

Good Product: Expandable Cooling Rack

We have a hate/love relationship with our cooling racks. On the one hand they are indispensable for helping cakes and cookies to cool faster and more evenly. One the other hand, they get tangled in a ...

How To Make No-Knead Bread
Home Hacks

We already gave you one tutorial for making bread this month. Here's one more: A step-by-step illustration of making the famous No-Knead Bread! This bread is dead simple. It's ridiculously easy, and...

Leaveners and Fats: The Science of Great Biscuits

We've been talking quite a bit about biscuits lately, there's just something ultra-comforting about them during the winter months. Last week we mentioned the classic Buttermilk Biscuit and these 15 ...

How To Make Cake Pops
Home Hacks

Cake balls, cake pops, cakesicles — have you tried them? They swept the internet like a tidal wave over the last year, thanks in part to the delightful and amazing creations of Bakerella and oth...

Dorie Greenspan's Applesauce Spice Bars
Recipe Review

By the time I got around to taking a photo of these bars, there were hardly any left. And this wasn't surprising: This is a luscious yet homey recipe, not too time-consuming, and so spicy and moist! T...

How To Frost a Layer Cake
Home Hacks

We've offered good tips before on how to frost a cake without too much mess, but we wanted to show you start to finish how we frost a cake. We're not experts at this, but we do love layer cake! Here's...

How To Shape a Sandwich Loaf of Bread Dough: The Video
Home Hacks

Yesterday we showed you how to shape a round loaf of bread. Today we're showing you how to shape dough into a neat and sliceable sandwich loaf. ...

How To Shape a Round Loaf of Bread Dough: The Video
Home Hacks

Yesterday we talked about how to how to make bread dough and how to knead it, too! Today we're looking at how to shape a nice, round, artisan-style loaf of bread. It's easy — here's how we do it...

PhD in Delicious: The Science Cookie Project
Not So Humble Pie

My husband is a bona fide scientist, so I have a special place in my heart for geeky science projects in the kitchen. The most delightful one that I've seen lately is this growing collection of scie...

Why Did My Cookies Get Soggy (And Can I Save Them)?
Good Questions

Q: My sister and I made Linzer cookies, and they turned out swimmingly, but I stored them in a Tupperware container with a lid that fall slightly short of airtight, and now the cookies are soggy. Is...

How To Knead Bread Dough: The Video
Home Hacks

Earlier today we gave you a good look at how to make bread dough. Now let's talk about how to knead it! A tutorial on kneading bread dough was actually one thing that several of you asked for this mon...

How To Make Bread
Home Hacks

Baking a loaf of bread can seem both intimidating and like an awful lot of work. Don't worry - it's really quite simple once you get the hang of it! In this tutorial, we've broken it down into teen...

How To Make a Pie Crust from Scratch
Home Hacks

Today, we wanted to share our own pie process - a gallery of photos and the basic process of making a pie crust. Pies can seem intimidating and time-consuming, but as our own pie here will attest -...

What Is the Best Way To: Soften Butter?

We are so bad at remembering to set out butter to soften. Then we are standing there, ready to start making a cake or cookies, and oh — the butter's still rock hard. Oops. We often microwave the...

Use A Muffin Tin For Better Bread Crusts

We've been pretty into our bread baking this winter. A fresh loaf with a crispy crust, just waiting to be pulled apart and dunked into our favorite soups — well there's just nothing like it. ...

Can You Recommend a Reliable Sugar Cookie Recipe?
Good Questions

Q: Does anyone have a roll-out sugar cookie dough that isn't too sticky? I would like to make some Valentine cut-out cookies for my daughter to take to school for a Valentine's Day party later this ...

Recipe Roundup: Make it a Red Velvet Valentine's Day!

We LOVE red velvet cake (or cupcakes!) and what better time to serve red velvet than Valentine's Day? It's approaching quickly and we wanted to provide some recipes to help you steer clear of the b...

Why Do All My Cookies Turn Out Cake-Like?
Good Questions

Q: I just started learning to bake, and after several batches of cookies, I can't figure out how to get the consistency I want — chewy and soft, or even chewy and crunchy. All I get is fluffy, c...

Do You Know of a Recipe for Earl Grey Cake?
Good Questions

Q: I was wondering if you knew of or had heard of a recipe for Earl Grey cake. My best friend is an Earl Grey fanatic and I thought this would be a perfect birthday cake for her. Any ideas? Sent ...

Kitchen Tour: Isabella Adapts to Her Kitchen
New York

Isabella and her husband Jay more than doubled their living situation and more than tripled their kitchen situation when they migrated to the tippy top of Manhattan. ...

Craving: Rosa Jackson's Lemon Curd Tart with Olive Oil

I'm a sucker for anything lemon, especially this time of year, when it's so dark and gray. Lemon's bright, mouth-puckering taste is a refreshing dose of sunshine, and I positively crave it in January....

Looking for a Simple (Vegan) Cake for a First Birthday
Good Questions

Q: I am looking for a simple, good First Birthday cake for my twins. They were very-early preemies, so we are still kind of on our "first foods." I haven't introduced eggs or milk yet (although they ...