Tips for Easy Baking
These tips for easy baking will make your time in the kitchen more enjoyable and who knows you might get so interested in baking that you become a great pastry chef. At any rate your family will appreciate your time and trouble.
These tips will make your baking easier and more enjoyable. When you get a yin to fire up your oven, keep these tips in mind and bake to your heart’s content.
1. Use clear measuring cups for water, milk, honey and other liquids. Before measuring anything sticky rinse cup with water.
2. Hold baking pans over your sink when spraying with oil. Your sink with catch any wayward oil.
3. Use a dry measuring cup to measure any semi liquid ingredients such a peanut butter or preserves.
4. Line baking pans with nonstick foil or regular foil sprayed with cooking oil for brownies or bar cookies. They will remove from the pan easier.
5.Gently spoon any powdery substance such as flour or cocoa into your measuring cup and level with a knife. Don’t pack it down.
6. Use a zip lock bag with the corner cut off or an ice cream scoop to fill cup cakes liners.
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7. fill any empty muffin cup half full of water when you are baking less than 12 cupcakes.
8.Let your cake cool 10 minutes in the pan before inverting on a rack. Leave tube or bundt cakes 15 minutes.
9. Spread your cooled cake with a light coating of frosting and let set an hour or so before finishing frosting.
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10. When making pie crust always use cold water, cold eggs and cold butter. This keeps the fat from melting before baking.
11. Chill pastry before rolling out. Chill again in the pan before baking.
12.Don’t overwork pie dough. It makes it tough.
13.Always follow this step ” Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.” This takes about 3 minutes and makes a big difference in texture.
14. Gently mix wet ingredients into dry until just blended so quick bread doesn’t turn out tough.
15. Whip eggs at room temperature until soft peaks form. This is the time to slowly add sugar, then beat on high until stiff peaks form.
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16.To melt chocolate, break in pieces and melt in micro wave oven 30 seconds at a time until melted. Stir after each 30 seconds.
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alfabeta | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
Great tips!
pattiann | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
I love to bake. I think I’ll find these tips handy.
Jimmy Shilaho | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
Very nice, I wish I could bake!
wonder | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
Great tips for good results.
Frances Lawrence | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
Excellent tips. I have printed it out and slipped it into my recipe folder.
Niti sharma | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
useful tips
Jenny Heart | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
Many great tips here.
Christine Ramsay | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
These are really useful tips. Thank you
Christine
amandeep13 | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
Very Interesting
Well Written
shivaleen | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
hey, very informative
walizz | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
hi, good tips.will come again.thank u.
Authoress Terry E. Lyle | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
Very useful tips to receive the optimal results.
Starpisces | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
Good, I must really try it. Few years ago I baked a cake, 3 attempts, unsuccessful though I follow instruction correctly (don’t look like cake, look like kueh), and since then I had phobia of baking.
I must really try this time. In case I have some question, will ask you.
Thanks.
Brenda Nelson | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
You need to send samples..
My tip to add is in the winter to leave the oven door open a bit after turning it off, to take advantage of the heat within it.
Shirley Shuler | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
Thanks for the useful tips, Ruby.
Inna Tysoe | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
Thanks for the tips.
PR Mace | Mar 14, 2010 | Reply
Thanks, Ruby. I love to bake and you have given me some good tips.
MCA | Mar 15, 2010 | Reply
its very interesting to read
Snooky | Mar 15, 2010 | Reply
Useful tips indeed. My favorite is lining all baking ppans with foil been doing that for years, save a whole lot of time and lets you remove baked items from the pans so they can cool quicker.
nobert soloria bermosa | Mar 15, 2010 | Reply
baking is one thing I always want to learn but don’t have much time to do so…thanks for the wonderful tips…
mo hoyal | Mar 15, 2010 | Reply
Great tips Ruby! Thanks so much. Best wishes from me.
Uma Shankari | Mar 15, 2010 | Reply
I don’t bake much, but went through all the tips!! Reads good.
TheOnlyTrueWriter | Mar 16, 2010 | Reply
I almost never bake, but I liked your tips.
Thanks for the great share:D
Tiffany J L Alfonso | Mar 16, 2010 | Reply
I don’t bake much, but those tips are useful! When I have a lucrative job to make my own cakes, I can take the tips to heart and make some cake and icing!
velvetrose | Mar 16, 2010 | Reply
Great tips. Very nice article.
almeena isaac | Mar 17, 2010 | Reply
i hope its not only tips but also other regional recipes.
nyarwacissy | Mar 17, 2010 | Reply
Oh thanks I am in bakery enterprise. the tips are quite useful. thanks.
Meg Smith | Mar 17, 2010 | Reply
Very useful tips, even for those of us who have been baking for years. It never occurred to me to fill the empty muffin cup with water. More, please…
Versatile Artist | Mar 17, 2010 | Reply
My mother raised me with some of these though these days I dont bake as much as I used to in my younger years..But me and grandkids are starting to bake again..these will come in handy.
BluSphere | Mar 17, 2010 | Reply
Great tips! I know some of these already, but it was nice to get them refreshed.
Thanks,
A W H
A.L.Smith | Mar 17, 2010 | Reply
Really good tips, will add a link in my blog.
http://just-have-a-look.blogspot.com/
Butterfly Dreaming | Mar 17, 2010 | Reply
Good work Ruby! Thank you for sharing these tips.
CA Johnson | Mar 17, 2010 | Reply
These are great tips for baking.
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Hazel Crowther | Mar 19, 2010 | Reply
Helpful tips thankyou.
joanne721 | Mar 19, 2010 | Reply
i will try to do that steps