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    Home > Baking Basics, Tips, & Information

    Baking Basics, Tips, & Information

    • Bottom released for Why, When and How to Undercoat a Cake
      Why, When and How to Undercoat a Cake
    • Photos of items for More Baking Tips
      Additional Baking Tips
    • This photos shows a number of baking utensils including half sheet pans, parchment paper, disher/scoopers, measuring cups, a scale and a box of cake flour,
      Baking Tips for the Holidays
    • Overall shot of equipment
      My Pastry Kitchen Essentials
    • Multi colored Painted Cookies on a lace plate
      Painted Cookies
    • Cakes being filled at bakery
      Baking Equipment and Utensils
    • Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
      Ten Ways to Become a Better Baker
    • White Chocolate Curls
    • Finished Ultimate
      The Glaze -A Fundamental of Pastry
    • Butter
      Better Butter for Baking
    • Cooled Caramel in a bowl.
      Caramel - A Building Block of Pastry
    • Fluid Ounce Conversion Charts
    • Pan Size Conversions
      Pan Size Conversions
    • Flour Photo
      Flour As Used in Baking
    • Scale
      Measuring for Baking
    • Soft Peak
      Salvaging Over-Whipped Cream
    • Butter ,softening
      Softened Butter
    • Drying a Fondant Cake
      Drying a Fondant Covered Cake
    • Vanilla beans resting on the bottle from which they came.
      The Making of Vanilla
    • A flat, baked layer of cake in the pan.
      How to Bake a Flat Cake Layer
    • The Champage colored Breville Bakery Chef Mixer with a glass mixing bow.
      Baking Basics - Equipment
    • Baking Soda and Baking Powder
      Baking Powder vs. Baking Soda, Where and When to Use Which
    • Two pans on top of each other to prevent over browning.
      Double Panning - Preventing Over Browning in the Oven
    • 6 cups phyllo for Greek Orange Yogurt Cake
      Ingredient Conversion Chart

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