Just Baking

My very best friend is moving out of state on Friday. Ami and I have known each other for 13 years… we met during my Freshman year of college and have been great friends ever since. She has been there for me through a lot and has always been one of the constants in my […]

When you sit down to a nice meal, what do you look forward to the most? Is it the main course, the salad, the dessert? I do look forward to all of those things, but the one thing I really look forward to is the bread. I’m a bread girl…I love my carbs. Crusty bread, […]

Ever since I learned how to make scones last year, I always keep an extra batch of scone dough in the freezer. It’s something handy to have, especially for Saturday morning when we don’t feel like eating pancakes (our weekend breakfast ritual). All we have to do, is simply to heat the oven […]

This was going to be a post about one thing: shaping a fendu loaf. Then I ended up having to improvise a little with the dough formula, so it will be about that, too.
First, the fendu: I’ve been getting a little bored with basic batards lately, so I thought I’d do something just a bit […]

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I know that this is completely against all things good about the feminist movement, but I have always wanted to be like June Cleaver, or our modern day example, (minus all of […]

Today’s video is about using fondant to decorate sugar cookies. I think what really caught my eye about this video is her use of the pasta roller to roll out the fondant. Not sure why, I’ve seen the larger dough sheeters bakeries use in action so a scaled down version shouldn’t have surprised […]

Today’s video lesson demonstrates the technique of braiding bread. This video shows how to braid 3, 4, 5, and 6 strands to form a beautiful loaf of bread. The video lasts nearly seven minutes. Enjoy!

Not butter per se, but the kind of butter you use.  The answer, in short, is yes.  I never really gave it much thought, to tell you the truth, just grabbing what I have on hand in the refrigerator.  Maarten Steenman, who is the owner and pastry chef of La Tulipe Desserts in Mount Kisco, […]

Today we have Chef Michael Olson of the Niagara Culinary Institute showing us how to make puff pastry. Puff pastry is created by first making a base dough and then folding in a fat, often butter, thereby creating hundreds of layers within the finished dough. When it is baked, the water becomes steam, […]

The Home Baking Association is a non-profit corporation formed with the intent to promote year-round baking at home. Its membership is comprised of well-known baking related corporations, non-profit groups, and individuals representing the various common baking ingredients such as flour, yeast, sugar, baking powder, salt, cocoa/chocolate, eggs, dairy, and common baking mixes. While […]