Cookie Time: 9 Cookies We'd Like to Bake Soon
The cookie-baking switch flipped to the ON position sometime in the last week or two. Maybe it's all the holiday catalogs coming in the mail, or the nip in the air, but some subliminal message has b...
Posts tagged “baking”
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...
Where Can I Find Yoga Pose Cookie Cutters?
Good Questions
Q: I am looking for these cookie cutters that make really adorable gingerbread people in various yoga poses. Do you know where I could find some? I'd love to find a store in Manhattan (or surroundin...
Can I Make Cheesecake But Skip the Water Bath?
Good Questions
Q: For the past few years I've been making pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving. This year I'm making it for a pre-holiday gathering, and I wanted to know if any of your readers have had experience (a...
Fall Baking: Angel Biscuits
Have you ever tried an angel biscuit? A post over at Please Pass the Pie just reminded us of these wonderful morsels. While we love just about every sort of biscuit known to man, these are especially ...
No More Plastic Wrap: What About Baking?
Wrap dough tightly in plastic wrap. These are familiar instructions to home bakers, and I even include them in my own recipes here on The Kitchn. Though I don't use plastic wrap for many purposes othe...
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...
Confections of a Closet Master Baker by Gesine Bullock-Prado
Book Review 2009
Gesine Bullock-Prado, the sister of the famous actress Sandra Bullock, spent ten years in the belly of Hollywood, heading up her sister's production company before she chucked it all to move to Mont...
How Can I Use Up Leftover Egg Yolks?
Good Questions
Q: I recently made a delicious beautiful white cake for a friend's birthday. It went over so well that I'm planning on making all sorts of variations for future cakes. However, it calls for 8 (EIGHT...
What Is Your Favorite Bundt Cake Recipe?
Autumn is a time for office potlucks and holiday parties, and we're always looking around for a no-fail dessert. The bundt cake is impressively shaped, feeds a lot of people, and when properly made, i...
Baking Tip: Make Your Own Brown Sugar
We don't go through brown sugar very quickly, and our supply inevitably becomes hard and difficult to use. Since we learned this tip, we've stopped buying it all together. We just mix plain sugar with...
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. ...
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 ...
How Do I Recreate This Lemon Tart From Amsterdam?
Good Questions
Q: I had this fabulous lemon tart while on holiday in Amsterdam. It was so different to the lemon-curd style tart that I'm used to in Montreal. It was very soft and tender, consistent, sort of eggy/ca...
Cookie Swap by Julia M. Usher
Book Review 2009
I know home cooks will be making more cookies this year - for school parties, holiday gifts, homemade wedding favors and birthday parties. We're already seeing it in the dozens of questions that reade...
Video: How To Make Olive Bread, Stop-Motion Style
Want to learn how to make bread from a talking olive loaf? This is your chance. ...
Egg Substitutes in Baking? Try Flax Seed!
Have you ever tried replacing eggs with ground flax seed in your baking? We spotted this tip on the Bitten blog last week and were instantly intrigued. We've been known to sprinkle flax seeds over ou...
Super-Quick Summer Dessert: Peach and Biscuit Crostata
Fast, rustic, and delicious: biscuit crostatas are one of our favorite summer desserts. After all, we're surrounded by fabulous ripe fruit that needs very little help. If you want to dress up a peach ...
Baking Lessons: How to Proof Yeast
Call us old-school, but we proof our yeast even if it's not mentioned in the instructions and even if the jar of yeast says it can be added right into the dough. We just don't want to go through all t...
Chocolate and Vanilla: Two New Favorite Cupcake Recipes
Recipe Reviews
School and work are back in session, and so cupcake season is fast upon us. We don't bake a lot of cupcakes; we usually prefer the ease of one whole cake. But when it comes to school classrooms and wo...
Sexier Than It Sounds: Oatmeal Cake with Broiled Coconut
Recipe Review
This is one of our very, very, most very favorite cakes. And yet the photos don't quite do it justice. This is a moist, tender cake with a gooey topping of broiled coconut and sugar, and while "oatmea...
LEGO In the Kitchen: 5 LEGO Kitchen Accessories
We can't help it; we are total nerds for LEGO stuff. Remember this slightly goopy attempt at a LEGO birthday cake? And LEGO fosters that nerd-nostalgia for building blocks of youth with all the kitc...
What Are the Best Dairy-Free Cake and Frosting Recipes?
Good Questions
Q: I have a dear friend who just turned 30 and I would love to make a birthday cake or cupcakes for her. But she is deathly allergic to dairy. Other than boxed cake (yuck), could you recommend a nic...
Cast Iron Pie Pans: Have You Ever Used One?
We've heard of aluminum, Pyrex, ceramic and perforated pie pans but never cast iron until we ran across this example on Amazon. It has a solid five-star review from six customers who say that the cas...
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