Piping designs onto cookies with royal icing is very tiring for your hands…I’ve seen some really incredible cookies made by people who must walk around with their fingers curled up into claws as the result of hand cramps from too much piping. When you make cookies that are decorated, you need to do them in […]
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I was having a craving for oatmeal cookies, and my daughter is vegan, so since she was home and I knew she would want some I needed to make them dairy and egg-free. The easiest thing to do when you’re looking for a vegan baking recipe is to start with one that uses oil, not
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Fruit jam and reductions serve different purposes in baking, but they’re both easy to make yourself if you want the best flavor. You make them in basically the same way, but reductions are used to get a stronger fruit flavor in fillings and icing. They can both be made by cooking the fruit, or you
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When you’re a beginning cake decorator, you’re probably going to be confused by all of the things that people say you “have to have” to decorate cakes. Most of those things are totally unnecessary, but there are some basics that will make your life a lot easier and save you time. These are the 5
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I have a couple of recipes where the cake is ALWAYS overflowing in the oven over the sides of the cake pans. Red velvet is the worst offender, but depending on how full I fill the pans it can happen to any type of cake. (Click here to read about red velvet cake and what makes
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When you’re making any type of meringue buttercream, whether it’s Swiss, French, or Italian meringue, you need to equalize the temperatures between the hot sugar syrup and the cold butter. If you have too much of a difference between them, the heat can melt the butter, or the cold butter can break into small pieces
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When you hear people talk about “fondant” in cake decorating, you might not realize that there are multiple types of fondant. Some are for covering cakes, and some are for pouring over desserts like petit fours. If you think you’re using one kind but you’re supposed to be using a different one, you’re going to
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