Just Baking

If you stopped by our site over the weekend, you saw a post by one of our great writers here at Just Baking, Hannah Kaminsky. Hannah is a joy to work with and her posts, both here and at her blog Bittersweet, are wonderful reads. More and more people are taking notice of this, too.
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Hungry for some instant gratitude that goes by the name of delivery pizza? It seems to be a food that few stop craving even as the years of childhood are left in the dust, something that 90% of people at a party could easily agree on, and a forbidden temptation for many vegans. Not satisfied […]

I’ve got a great oven/range.  It’s a 36″ Dacor propane cooktop with an electric oven with convection, bake and combination settings.  It heats up to 600 degrees if I want it to, and really is nice.

So how do I improve it for baking bread?  I’ve already cracked the window, so I have to stop that.  […]

The Internets are vast treasure trove of information. I think it’s fairly evident from my posts that I love places like Wikipedia and Google Video. Well, it’s not all about spending my time, surfing the sites looking for the latest baking video game. Sometimes, you find something educational. Today’s video comes […]

Probably best known as the main ingredient in the flatbread injera, teff has been cultivated in Ethiopia for thousands of years. Gluten-free and full of nutrients like iron, calcium, lysine, and many others, teff is used by many athletes to enhance their training diets. It is common in the diets of the very […]

Is your oven more than just a place to store pans? Do you believe the best gift is something you made yourself? Do you have bread rising right now? Do you have a growing list of recipes and products you want to try? Do you feel the need to express yourself […]

Last week a delightful shipment landed on my doorstep.  It contained four attractively designed packages of the latest non-dairy cheese to hit North America, Sheese.  Produced in Scotland, this stuff has been all the rage among the vegan community.  As someone who’s writing and baking revolves around all things dairy-free, I was insanely eager to […]

Granola is perhaps one of the best food innovations to have been borne from the easy-going days of the 60’s era. Combining hearty oats, sweet fruits, and crunchy seeds and/or nuts, such a staple is a cheap and tasty way to nourish your body – A huge payoff for such a small amount of work. […]

Also known as Sweet Rice Flour and Coconut Cake.
This is a lot like Bibingka, but the difference is it’s a bit more dense and rich than the Bibingka I have made previously. I think the addition of coconut milk and eggs is why it’s more rich and why the flavoring is a bit more exotic […]

Bundt cakes always get a bad rap for being boring. When I think of bundt cakes, I think of little old ladies and their church pot luck suppers. Bundt cakes seem to be all over the place at those events. People seem to like bundt cakes, but they rarely get the ooohhh’s and ahhhhh’s […]