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It helps to have in your repertoire an all-purpose recipe for when you are in need of a dozen cupcakes or something you can decorate. For me, it’s this yellow cake recipe. I’ve used this recipe for my Halloween cupcakes, the heart from Valentine’s Day, and for my Easter Bunny cupcakes this past […]

Towards the end of 2006, the New York Times ran an article that fired thousands of ovens: no-knead bread. While we didn’t really cover it here at Just Baking, a quick search shows plenty of people did. I’ve included an instructional video on how to make no-knead bread and will give some […]

Baking really is chemistry. It’s all about chemical reactions. Sometimes it takes trying a recipe outside what you are comfortable with to remind you of that fact. Take this bread for instance. It’s dense and tasty and it requires just a few ingredients and a little bit of time to make. […]

Radio and TV news people were handed a dream teaser today, “Pizza is a health food? Find out more coming up.” I heard this six times throughout the day today on the news radio channel while driving. Of course I never did hear the follow-up as I usually exit the vehicle once […]

Let’s say you’re just starting out baking from scratch for the very first time. You need a tray of cupcakes to bring to work tomorrow and it’s 7 o’clock in the evening. You bought the ingredients and they’re all ready for you to use, you just need to take them out of the […]

Sometimes you just want something that isn’t chocolate. Yeah, I know what I just said. Sometimes you need an alternative to chocolate. Potlucks, parties, family reunions, church dinners, etc., it always seems that the majority, if not all, of the people bring some form of chocolate baked goods. The last time […]

Quinoa (pronounced keen-wa) is the seed of a leafy vegetable of the Goosefoot species, which is also related to spinach and rhubarb. Like spinach the leaves can be eaten. However, the plant is raised for its seed.
Quinoa has been grown and harvested in the Andes Mountain region of South America for 6,000+ years. Prized by […]

On a typical day my breakfast is a muffin from the cafeteria at work. Nothing too fancy, a bran muffin, maybe a cranberry one. A while back I was paging through my King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion cookbook, looking to see if was anything a little healthier to make when I stumbled on a recipe […]

If you ever want to bake a cake or other dessert in the shape of a heart but don’t have a heart pan, you can always use a round pan and a square pan.  The length of the square pan should be the same as the diameter of the round pan.  Once everything is baked, divide […]

Welcome to Valentine’s Week here at Just Baking!  Join us for the next five days as our writers bring you good ideas and even better baked goodies that will help you express your feelings for those you love.