Shaping a 4-strand round challah is actually very easy! Trust me. I am no braiding expert, so if I can pull this off, you…
I am no artist. I can bake delicious pastry and breads, and sort of make it look appetizing, but I have never been able…
I don’t know why, but Pie Dough is one pastry item that many home bakers freak out about. While I acknowledge that I learned…
Homemade Vanilla Extract has been on my to-do list for at least a decade. It is preposterous — completely preposterous — that I have…
(This post includes instructions for making a dry caramel. To learn to make wet caramel, check out my post How to Make Wet Caramel.)…
(This post includes instructions for making a wet caramel. To learn to make dry caramel, check out my post How to Make Dry Caramel.)…
Tradition, Tradition! A Festive Challah can really fit any occasion. For a Rosh Hashanah challah, it is tradition to make round challah. Why? We…
Yesterday, I posted a recipe for a fabulous Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie. I thought it would be helpful to pull out the section…
Since I (like everyone else) find myself at home these days, I started to play with sourdough recipes. I am relatively new to sourdough…
True confession of a home-baker with little to no patience: I used to ignore recipes that instructed me to have ingredients like butter at…