These posts show how to do special baking techniques, recipes and skills. These posts will help you learn beyond the recipe.
Chocolate Shavings can dress up your homemade cakes and pies so they look like they came from a high-end pastry shop. They’re easy to make at home Pastry chefs can buy chocolate shavings by the box. But you can make them in your own kitchen. You can make them with dark chocolate, milk chocolate or …
Sourdough Starter Powder! Introducing a whole new way to store and use sourdough starter or sourdough discard. Dry it, then grind it to a powder. So you’ve jumped on the sourdough bandwagon, YAY! It’s so much fun, isn’t it? But there are times when real life interferes and you may not be able to bake …
I going to show you how to dry sourdough starter. Why? Because drying is the best way to preserve your sourdough starter for the long term. So you’ve jumped on the sourdough bandwagon, YAY! It’s so much fun, isn’t it? But, there are times when real life interferes and you may not be able to …
Want to know how to shape pizza dough into a perfectly round pie with a light and airy crust? Don’t use a rolling pin because hand-shaped pizza dough has the best texture. I know it’s very tempting to just take out the rolling pin and get those pizzas into the oven as quickly as possible. …
You’ve done it! You’ve created a living batter filled with wild yeast. Now let’s see how to feed & maintain your sourdough starter. If you haven’t made your starter yet, visit this post to see how to make a sourdough starter from scratch. Right off the bat I’m going to say that there are a …
Learn how to temper chocolate for dipping and molding beautiful candies that have that perfect “snap” when you bite into them. Read on to find step by step instructions, helpful hints and a video. What is tempering and why does chocolate need to be “tempered”? You know how when you bite into a good chocolate …
Create a cake that looks like you bought it at a cake at a high-end bake shop! You will see a short ad before the video starts. Thanks for your patience. The ads help me pay the bills so I can keep creating new recipes for you! Equipment used: Offset spatula, bench scraper, cake turntable, silcone …
This is the quintessential vanilla layer cake, only better than ever. There are a few special touches that make this cake the best vanilla cake you’ll ever taste. Unlike almost every page of Baking Sense, this post is not centered on a single recipe, but rather illustrates how to assemble a professional looking layer cake. …
Have you ever wondered why vodka sauce tastes good even though you can’t taste the vodka? Why do we use alcohol to make vanilla extract? Should you even care about this if you just want to make a cake? Keep reading to find out… Sugar syrups for candy making are boiled to specific temperatures and …
Ever wonder why bread goes stale? What is “stale” bread anyway? It’s not just dry bread. Why Does Bread Go Stale? The reason day-old bread is crumbly and hard has less to do with loss of moisture and more to do with a process called retrogradation. As bread bakes the starch molecules in the dough gelatinize …