cakes
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10 Professional Baking Tools I Use at Home
In a professional bakery kitchen, you’ll see plenty of multi-purpose tools in action, and cabinets full of gadgets that are equally believable as scalp massagers or torture devices. Although there’s a time and use for all of those utensils, in my home kitchen I ditch the docking roller for a fork. You do not, however,…
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Not All Cloud Bread Is Created Equal
I had mixed feelings after perusing different pictures and recipes for cloud bread, a food that has become quite popular on TikTok. One of them was confusion. I came across two very different looking versions — one that looked like colourful cotton candy and another that resembled brown cobblestone-looking pancakes. Furthermore, the recipes for the…
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Forget Frosting and Give Your Cupcakes the Lamington Treatment
A mighty glob of buttercream frosting looks appealing on a cupcake, but my quick hack for eating such a cupcake is to remove the liner off the bottom, use the liner to pull off the frosting, then throw the liner and frosting into a burning trash can. This keeps your fingers clean. Or, if you…
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You Can Turn Any Beverage Into Cake Icing
It’s a universal law that a lovely loaf or bundt cake must be topped with a simple icing drizzle. Although simplicity doesn’t have to mean flavourless, most powdered sugar icings are, sadly, completely flat. Don’t let this be your cake’s fate. Treat your icing as a flavour opportunity, and don’t squander it with water or…