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    Baking Techniques

    Find out what mixing method you should use for different recipes and why, how to prep your baking pans so that things don’t stick to them, and how to check if your cake is done baking. These techniques and tricks are essential to becoming a better baker!

    • The Science of Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • How To Make A Baked Graham Cracker Crust
    • How To Make Brown Butter
    • How to Make Sweet Potato Purée for Pies
    • Perfect Pie Crust by Hand
    • Pie Crust In A Food Processor
    • Pie Crust in a Stand Mixer
    • How to use a bundt pan
    • How to measure cake pan sizes
    • How To Make a Lattice Pie Crust
    • Pie tools to help you make the best pies
    • How to make marmalade
    • How to Make Chocolate Fudge Frosting
    • How to make the best ice cream at home
    • How to Make Thick Cream Cheese Frosting for Cakes and Piping with Less Sugar
    • Online baking classes and resources
    • How to use a tart pan & remove a tart from a tart pan
    • Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point
    • How to measure ingredients for baking
    • How to prepare cake pans for baking
    • How To Make Crème Anglaise
    • How To Make Pastry Cream
    • The jam setting point and how to determine jam set
    • How to make Italian meringue buttercream (recipe in grams and cups)
    • How to poach pears
    • How to check if your cake is done baking
    • How to make baked donuts
    • Butter temperature in baking
    • How to mix ingredients—Mixing methods in baking
    • Oven rack position
    • How to stencil the top of a cake
    • How to make clarified butter
    • How to bake a flat cake and make a cake rise evenly
    • How to store cake
    • How to make the best banana bread with tips & tricks for troubleshooting recipes
    • How to poach quince
    • Volume versus weight in baking
    • How to develop a gluten-free cake recipe from mashed potato
    • How to peel pistachios

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    Apple Treats

    • A glass of milk served with apple butter, cranberry, white chocolate chip cookies.
      Fall Cookies With Cranberries, White Chocolate And Apple Butter
    • Apple Blackberry Crumble
    • Serving apple and blueberry crumble with scoops of vanilla ice cream on plates.
      Apple and Blueberry Crumble
    • Puff pastry apple tart cut into squares to serve.
      Puff Pastry Apple Tart
    • Apple tart tatin featuring honeycrisp apples.
      Apple tarte tatin
    • Freshly baked apple galette.
      Apple Galette With Pie Crust

    Pumpkin Baking

    • Little pumpkin tarts
      Mini pumpkin pie tarts without evaporated milk
    • vegan pumpkin pie shakes
      Pumpkin spice shake
    • A slice of maple pumpkin bread on a dessert plate.
      Maple Pumpkin Bread
    • Slices of pumpkin bread served on dessert plates with a cup of coffee.
      Perfect Pumpkin Loaf Cake
    • Serving pumpkin pie on black plates.
      Pumpkin Pie Without Evaporated Milk
    • whoopie pie
      Pumpkin Spice Whoopie Pies With Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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