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How to Prepare Pie Crust
Making pie crust is a basic cooking technique, but there is a difference between good pie crust and adequate pie crust. According to finecooking.com, the secret ingredient for a perfect pie crust is...
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How to Knead Homemade Bread
Nothing beats the smell of freshly baked, homemade bread -- except, perhaps, the taste of it. When you're taking on this project in your own kitchen, you'll find that mixing the ingredients to make...
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The Best Method of Freezing Muffins
If you're the baker of the family or the neighborhood, you probably find yourself spending hours in the kitchen during the holidays or other special occasion. If muffins are your specialty, and you...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Own Leg and Knee Birthday Cake
Making a birthday cake can be a fun experience. Although it is possible to shape a birthday cake into a leg and knee from a basic sheet cake, there are different methods that can make a cake more...
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How to Bake With Quinoa
Many people first learn about quinoa (pronounced key-NO-ah or KEEN-wah) when they are beginning a gluten-free diet, which may make it seem like something you’re settling for. But quinoa is an...
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How to Add Vital Wheat Gluten to Pizza Dough
Wheat gluten, a food additive, is a substance that is high in protein. When included in recipes, the extra protein can work with yeast, or on its own, as a leavening agent to make the foods rise higher...
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How to Make Pie Crust in Advance
Making a pie crust requires a lot of work. Therefore, creating a pie crust in advance of the actual date needed, provides a similar convenience to using a frozen crust. Certain ingredient combinations...
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Substitutes for White Sugar in a Cake
Running out of sugar when you are baking a cake may seem like a complete disaster. This does not need to be the case, however. You can substitute any of a number of other sweeteners for granulated...
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What Are White Compound Chocolates?
Compound chocolates differ from regular chocolates in that cocoa butter is replaced with vegetable fats, creating a chocolate coating that will melt and turn into a hard shell at room temperature....
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How to Decorate Novelty Cakes
Special occasions often call for special cakes. For a baby shower or a child's birthday, a novelty cake is often the choice. Create your own cake by cutting the cake layers into a creative shape. Add...
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How to Make Wax Paper Into Icing Bags
Wax paper and icing tips combine to make icing bags that are just as good as store-bought plastic icing bags. Wax paper icing bags are easier to use, inexpensive and disposable. Often the most...
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Historical Shapes of Fruitcake
Fruitcake is a Christmas tradition dating back to medieval times. The cakes take a long time to prepare, for they are have to be baked and then soaked in a liquor to be aged. It is a thick and...
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How to Make Decorator Frosting for a Cake
Making your own decorator frosting is fun and easy. In only a few steps, you will have a tasty topping for your cake. This recipe may not be fat-free, but it does provide the best texture for...
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How to Use Aluminum-Free Baking Powder
Aluminum-free baking powder is just like regular baking powder in its purpose and measurements, but it lends a cleaner, less metallic taste to baked goods and recipes than its standard counterparts....
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Can I Freeze Duncan Hines or Betty Crocker Cupcakes?
You can store baked cupcakes in the freezer, including cupcakes prepared from Betty Crocker and Duncan Hines cake mixes, for two to three months. Freezing cupcakes allows you to prepare for a big event...
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What Makes Regular Flour the Equivalent of Cake Flour?
If you find yourself in a baking mood and do not have cake flour on hand, regular all-purpose flour can be used as a tried-and-true substitute. All-purpose flour is a less expensive baking staple than...
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How to Thicken Runny Frosting
Homemade frosting can be made as a sweet topping for cakes, donuts, brownies, and cookies. The most challenging part of making frosting can be finding the right consistency. A frosting that is too...
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The Basic Steps for Preparing Cookie Dough
You can make a basic sugar cookie dough and opt to add ingredients such as chocolate chips or nuts. You can refrigerate or freeze your cookie dough to use it at a later time and can create holiday...
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Cake Baking Classes in the Bronx
If you reside in the Bronx area of New York and are interested in enrolling in cake baking classes, you will find there are few such classes offered inside the Bronx. However, there are a few cake...
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How to Make Icing Cake Flower Decorations
No iced cake is complete without some flowers on top. Edible flowers add a bit of color to what can otherwise be a rather boring, white cake. Even if that cake tastes great, you want to wow eaters...
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How to Use Yogurt in Low-Fat Baking
Making substitutions when baking low-fat foods can be one way to not only lower the fat content of foods; such substitutions can also impart new and intriguing flavors to your food. Using yogurt as a...
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How to Decorate Cupcakes to Look Like SpongeBob
SpongeBob SquarePants graces the homes of many children. This cartoon character is featured on everything from crafts and baked goods to toys and videos. When giving a SpongeBob-themed party, create...
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Tips on Freezing Rolls for Bread Dough
No matter how you reheat it, reheated bread just doesn't have that fresh-out-of-the-oven flavor. Instead if attempting to reheat it, make more bread dough than necessary next time you make a batch. You...
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Tips on Baking Muffins
Muffins provide either a breakfast or snack option that takes only a short time to make. These single-serving quick breads require no yeast, instead depending on baking powder or soda to rise and...
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Cake Flour Types
Flour is a key ingredient in baking, and selecting the correct type of flour for specific baked goods provides the best results. Since flours have a shelf life of only six months, purchase only the...
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Ideas for Beach Themed Cake Decorations
Before a cake is a treat for your taste buds, it's a treat for your eyes. Cake decorating competitions celebrate the most skilled cake decorating artisans, but even beginner decorators can create a...
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How to Moisten Fruit Cakes
Fruitcake is a liquor-soaked holiday classic filled with spices and dried fruits such as apple, pear and apricot. It is often made a few weeks or even months ahead of time to allow the liquor to seep...
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Simple Candy Gift Crafts
An edible gift can please almost anyone. It's a generic present that can be given to any age and for any occasion. In fact, it becomes even more significant and meaningful if created by hand. By making...
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Tips on Making Pretty Cupcakes
Cupcakes are a sweet treat at birthday parties, school functions and even weddings. Because cupcakes are quick and easy to bake, you can really go to town with the decoration. From swirly frosting to...
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How to Bake With Limited Ingredients
You don't need a jar of quince preserves or chili-infused cocoa powder to make great baked goods. The basic ingredients for most recipes are flour, sugar, eggs and butter -- but even these are not...
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How to Send Sugar Cookies
Sugar cookies take on an array of colors, flavors, shapes, topping and decorations. Sugar cookie dough can be put through a cookie press, formed into a log and cut into slices, rolled out and cut into...
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How to Measure Sugar Without Scales
Precise measurements in cooking are often necessary, since even a slight modification of ingredient portions can ultimately affect the taste and texture of your dish. If you are accustomed to weighing...
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How to Make 3D Birthday Cakes
Homemade birthday cakes make thoughtful and personal gifts for friends or family members. Many cake-makers sell ready-made 3D cakes of popular designs and even take special orders. With a little...
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How Do You Adjust Baking Time for Different Size Pans?
When baking, it is best to use the pan size recommended in the recipe. Sometimes this isn't possible, though, and you may need to use a glass pan, a deeper pan or a completely different-shaped pan....
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How to Make Edible Roses for Wedding Cakes
Edible flowers are certainly the most popular way to decorate a cake and have been for some time. Roses are the most beautiful and popular of all icing flowers. It takes some patience and a steady hand...
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How to Make a JELL-O Gelatin Mold
Making and creating a JELL-O gelatin mold is easy and requires only a few simple steps to follow in order to complete the process. JELL-O molds are available in local shops and baking good stores as...
View ArticleHow to Roast Maca
Maca is a root vegetable which has been grown and prized in the Peruvian Andes for its health benefits and nutritional content since 1600 B.C. Incans used maca to boost energy levels and increase the...
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The Differences Between Wine Yeast & Active Yeast
Yeasts are living organisms, specifically fungi, vital to the process of fermentation. They ingest sugar and convert it to carbon dioxide and alcohol. The carbon dioxide is what makes bread rise and...
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Proper Use of Whey
Whey is the liquid byproduct of straining milk to get curds. The curds are used to create most cheeses and other solid dairy products while the whey serves a wide variety of different purposes. Whey...
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How to Cook Tapioca Flour to Make Bread
Tapioca flour consists is finely-ground cassava root and is used a thickening agent and a white flour substitute. For successful results when baking bread, this flour must be combined with other...
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Cake Decorating Frosting Tips
Baking a cake is only half the battle. In some ways, baking the cake is the easiest, and most straightforward, part of making a cake. Even if you are not a professional, you can transform an ordinary...
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Whisk Vs. Beaters for Meringue
Meringue is a fluffy dessert made mostly of whipped egg whites and sugar. This light and airy dessert can be made into cookies shaped like a blob of whipped cream with a pointy top, can top a cake, or...
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Child's Cupcake Ideas
Kids love sugary treats, whether it is a special occasion like a holiday or birthday party, or just for fun on the weekends. They especially love cupcakes! Something about their size and portability...
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How to Make an Easy Homemade Cookie Cake
If you want a cookie cake, there's no need to run to the grocery store or local bakery. Cookie cakes don't require special recipes or extravagant baking techniques. As long as you have your favorite...
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No-Bake Desserts for Kids
Most kids like to be the kitchen helping mom, dad or grandma, especially with making desserts. Having little children around a hot stove or oven can be dangerous, particularly for curious little ones...
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Peter Pan Cookie Decorating Ideas
Peter Pan never wanted to grow up, and you can incorporate Peter's sense of fun and whimsy into your cookie decorating. Creating Peter Pan-themed cookies doesn't have to involve several hours of detail...
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How to Keep Meringue From Getting Runny
Nothing is as satisfying as creating the perfect meringue. Those white peaks of frothy sweetness are guaranteed to fill any baker's heart with glee, but getting the perfect meringue is not simple. Even...
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How to Decorate Cupcakes for Christmas
Cupcakes: an adorable and delectable treat. Christmas and other holidays are a perfect time for cupcakes. Cupcakes can be decorated in many ways and allow for a lot of creativity. There is no wrong way...
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Ideas for Textured Buttercream Wedding Cake Designs
As a bride, your wedding day is one of the most special and important days of your life. Everything has to be absolutely perfect, from the wedding gown to the church setting to the wedding cake....
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Baking Supplies for Kids
Baking is an entertaining and educational experience for children. It also serves to increase children's self-esteem since they see a project from the beginning to end, participating in all the steps....
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