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Baking Tip of the Day
Cookies are easy to make with these tips from professional chefs.
Salt always brings out the flavor of any food that it is added to, especially chocolate. That can be said of cookies as … Continue Reading
Baking Tip of the Day
Vanilla extract can be used to flavor foods besides the usual cakes, cookies, puddings, milkshakes, and whipped cream.
Add one-fourth teaspoon to the water and mix well before adding to pie crust dough. It … Continue Reading
Baking Tip of the Day
Vanilla extract can kill yeast if the yeast hasn’t had a chance to proof.
Some professional chefs say that the teaspoon or less of vanilla extract that most recipes ask for, isn’t enough to … Continue Reading
Baking Tip of the Day
When a recipe calls for brown sugar, soft brown sugar is needed. Here are some tips on how to soften brown sugar that has dried hard as a rock.
Brown sugar is simply white … Continue Reading
Baking Tip of the Day
Nuts add an additional dimension of flavor to all baked breads, cookies, cakes, and other baked goods.
Most recipes just list nuts as an ingredient and instruct when to add them to the batter … Continue Reading