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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 -...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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. ...
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....
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 ...
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