Just Baking

I love my neighborhood grocery store.  Billed “The Friendliest Store in Town” (this is actually printed on their paper bags), it is a self-prescribed yet well-deserved distinction.  This is a store where the clerks will open up ANY product in the store for you to taste, should you have any hesitation about buying it.  You […]

Cookies.  Who doesn’t love them right?  As a very passionate baker, I’m not sure which I love more eating cookies or baking them.  Probably the latter of the two.  For most of us when we think of the holiday season we also think of all the delicious food that goes along with it.  Or atleast […]

Just the mere mention of chocolate chip cookies makes my mouth water.  I’ve tried more recipes than I care to even think out, many with edible but very unsatisfying results.  After testing out the third different recipe I started to think maybe I am just picky, but that didn’t halt my search.  I was determined to find a recipe […]

Thanksgiving is approaching fast, and I have been thinking of what I’m going to fix for that day.  It’s kind of a big deal of a day for my family.  It usually starts with biscuits and gravy sometime in the morning and ends with a huge meal with all the traditional stuff.
This year, I’m smoking […]

It surrendered when the knife hit it.
The fine crumbs were disastrously fragile, struggling in vain to hold onto one another.  It collapsed against the weight of cream cheese; likewise even to a smear of jelly.  The product of my bread-baking effort was, by all accounts, a sad little loaf.
I was thirteen years old.
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Every hobby-baker has their pantry full of baking essentials.  But if you’re new to the game and aren’t sure what to stock up on, the following is a list of items I believe are must-haves for baking, and things that if you keep on hand, will keep you from having to run to the store […]

With the holiday baking season almost upon us and with it a quest for quality ingredients, I thought that I’d sample See’s Candies’ Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips.  Also, since a chocolate chip’s destiny is often to be baked into a cookie, my teen-age son obligingly whipped up a batch of chocolate chip cookies for me.
Tasting Report
Description:  See’s […]

I’ve been cooking for years and on occasion I have been known to substitute margarine for butter (mainly during my college years when money was tight).  But since I’ve learned more about baking, and made literally hundreds of recipes, I have realized that the two are definitely not equal. 
Butter is made from the fat […]

This is my first post on Just Baking, and I’m looking forward, in a weird way, to many more.  The reason I say “in a weird way” is that I’m just starting out doing any baking, and I hope to share some of my experiences, both good and bad.
My reason for getting into baking at […]

A huge welcome to Just Baking - one of the newest blogs to join the WellFed Network.  If you love to bake or are dying to learn how you are definitely in the right place.  Just Baking will cover everything in the world of baking.
Here you will find great new recipes, as well as some […]