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    Baking Ingredients

    If you have ever wondered what is the difference between baking soda and baking powder, or how to make baking substitutions in your favourite recipes, this page dedicated to baking ingredients is for you! Learn all about sugar in baking, how to make brown butter and how butter temperature affects baking so you can become a better baker. This is an essential part of baking 101 so bookmark this page to return to it often whenever you have a question.

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    • Oreo Cookie Crust
    • How To Make A Baked Graham Cracker Crust
    • How To Make Brown Butter
    • What is Baking Powder
    • How to make homemade pumpkin purée for baking
    • How to Make Whipped Cream
    • How to Make Lemon Sugar
    • Sugar in baking
    • What to bake with maple syrup
    • Homemade Cinnamon Sugar
    • The Complete Guide to the Different Chocolate Types
    • Sourdough Starter
    • A guide to baking ingredients and pantry staples
    • How to substitute for cocoa powder with dark chocolate
    • How to bake with vanilla
    • Comparison of store-bought dulce de leche
    • All about sprinkles
    • What to bake with lemons
    • Baking soda in baking
    • Butter temperature in baking
    • A guide to baking substitutions
    • The complete guide to leavening agents and chemical leaveners
    • Baking with yeast
    • How to make vanilla sugar
    • How to make vanilla extract
    • How to make clarified butter
    • What to bake with rhubarb
    • What to bake with carrots
    • Substitutes for eggs in baking
    • What to bake with fresh currants

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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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