Using Dark or Light Baking Pans
When you are baking breads, cakes or cookies, if you prefer a darker bottom or crust, use darker pans to bake them in. The dark pans absorb more heat and will brown your food item to a darker color.
Where Can I Buy Instant or Bread Yeast?
My new bread machine cook book calls for either instant yeast or bread yeast. Can anyone tell me where to find it?
Difference Between Bread Machine and Regular Yeast
What's the difference between bread machine yeast and regular yeast? Thanks.
Saving Money on Baking Parchment Paper
I am very thrifty. To make my parchment paper last longer, I bake with it at least twice before throwing it away. I use it when baking cookies and bread. I just flip it over and reuse it for the next batch.
When making powder sugar frosting, why wash a bowl and utensil to stir with? Slip a plastic bag in a coffee mug and turn the top edge down over the rim of the cup. Put your ingredients in and zip the bag closed, mixing the frosting by hand.
Bottle For Inverting Bundt Pan
I just insert the neck of the bottle into the hole in the center of the pan, and invert it onto the stove or counter and leave it for about an hour to cool. Then carefully loosen the cake at the top edges and remove it to a serving plate.
Making a Lacy Pattern on a Cake
A simple technique for decorating a chocolate cake is to lay a paper doily on top, Sift on powdered sugar, then lift doily off carefully to leave a design.
Why Are My Homemade Cupcakes Sticky?
I'm wondering why the cupcakes I make from scratch come out sticky. Not only on the tops of the cupcakes, but also when the liners are removed the cake sticks to my fingers.
I am making a wedding cake in June and would like to doctor a Duncan Hines butter golden cake mix to make this cake. It will be a four-layer cake with butter-cream icing. I have made a doctored wedding cake with Betty Crocker cake mix, but Duncan Hines butter is my favorite.
How Do I Make Brownies in Cupcake Liners?
Can brownies be made into a cupcake form?
Lard always makes the best pie dough.
Keep Cake Ingredients At Room Temperature
To help your cakes rise higher, have all ingredients at room temperature.
Use Sugar to Dust Your Cake Pans
If you like sweets, this is for you. Next time you bake sweet bread or muffins, try greasing and sugaring the pan instead of greasing it and flouring. You will love the slight hint of added sweetness
Earlier in the week, I wanted to make some biscuits but noticed I was out of buttermilk, and didn't want to go to the store. I had an old buttermilk container in the fridge and decided I'd make my own.
Spatula to Remove Dough Residue
Use a spatula to clean off the dough that stuck to the counter/board when you were kneading. Just scrape away gently before adding water, and most comes off easily! Saves so much time, and paper towels.
Substitute Applesauce for Oil in Baking
Do I use the same amount of applesauce as I would oil in baking a cake?
Form Foil On Bottom Before Lining Pan
For fitting foil into a roasting pan without tearing the foil, turn pan upside down and fit the foil to the outside of the pan. turn it right side up and gently fit the formed foil to the inside of the pan.
I've acquired several mini paper baking cup (liners). I've never made anything
Using Applesauce Instead of Oil
Can applesauce by substituted for oil in all recipes?
I made this cake for a very good friend. It's a chocolate cake decorated with black and red fondant. It was her 40th birthday so I wanted something simple but spectacular! Everyone at the party loved it!
Now we all love warm sweet muffins, but there are a group of muffins that never get any recognition. They are called savory muffins because they are not sweet. They can be a herb muffin or one with vegetables instead of fruit.
This is a simple Halloween project you and your kids can do together. They make a super treat for home or a class at school. Simply make brownies, following the directions on the package.
If you're looking for a stunning cake and don't want to purchase specialty pans and dolls, then this is your cake. Use your preferred boxed cake mix and mix according to directions.
Save Money By Baking Your Own Bread
One way to save quite a bit on food is to learn your way around baking yeast. You can find a whole pound of it for about $2.50 at little shops or places that sell in bulk and you use it a tablespoon at a time - it lasts for months in the refrigerator.
