Baking Tips
Gail shares some of her tried and true baking tips in the articles below.
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Confessions of a Baker
I am going to make a confession to you and I am not even Catholic! Some years ago I entered a ...
The T-Rex Cake and the Lessons I Learned From that Dinosaur
When my daughter was quite young she was obsessed with dinosaurs. So I wanted to make her a dinosaur birthday cake, ...
To Paddle or Whip: that is the question
Ok. So you have a recipe and it says to "cream some butter with sugar" or "whip the cream with ...
Cream Puff Swans
Cream Puff Swans Makes approximately 16-18 swans Cream Puff Dough 1 cup water ½ cup unsalted butter 1 cup all-purpose ...
Hardware store or a baker’s paradise?
Did you ever wander through a hardware store, and see so many items that could be used in the kitchen? ...
Teaching egg whites how to relax…
In any meringue recipe, the recipe always calls for room temperature egg whites. Why, you might ask? Good question. This ...
Chocolate Éclairs Recipe
Chocolate Eclairs Makes approximately 24 éclairs Cream Puff Batter 1 cup water ½ cup unsalted butter 1 cup all-purpose flour ...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Tart Recipe
Makes 1 10-inch tart Crumb Crust: 2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs (any crème filled chocolate sandwich cookie will do, finely ...
Raspberry Linzer Torte Recipe
Raspberry Linzer Torte Makes 1 10 inch torte Linzer Dough 2 cups walnuts 1 cup cake scraps or other firm ...
Macarons (French Macaroons) Recipe
Macarons (French Macaroons) Makes about 60-65 macarons or about 30-32 sandwiched cookies 1 1/3 cups blanched, sliced almonds 2 cups ...
Coconut Macaroons Recipe
Coconut Macaroons Makes 2 ½ dozen macaroons 4 cups shredded, sweetened coconut 1 cup +1 tablespoon granulated sugar 1 heaping ...
Chewy Almond Macaroon Horseshoe Recipe
Chewy Almond Macaroon Horseshoes Makes about 20 cookies 2 8-ounce packages almond paste, crumbled into pieces 1 cup granulated sugar ...
