Do you ever find yourself puzzled when a recipe calls for a pastry bag? You have a pastry bag in one hand and dozens of piping tips on the table and no clue how to put 2 and 2 together. Most times you push the tips back into the drawer and switch to your trusted…
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National Pie Day!
Let’s start the blog by suggesting that New Years Resolutions are made to be broken. Eating healthy, working out, losing weight and building muscle are all great ideas to begin 2019, but one day stands in your way. It’s National Pie Day! Whether your an expert pie baker or just starting out you’ve come to…
What are Russian Piping Tips?
Russian piping tips have taken the icing world by storm! These new trending tips allow even the most amateur baker to create beautiful flowers complete with a detailed center and delicate petals. To create a detailed flower with traditional piping tips can be extremely difficult and take years to perfect, but with Russian piping tips…
Essential Tools Every Baker Should Own
What baking tools do I need? That is a great question many hobby chefs and bakers ask themselves. So I will go through the essential baking tools every baker should own! This blog will not breakdown the “basic” items like an oven or a measuring cup, but rather dive deeper into the essentials. Read on…
How To Use Russian Piping Tips
Working with Russian Piping Tips do not need to be complicated, they can actually be quite easy to use. Take a look at this blog from Cake Central on how to use Russian Piping tips! Enjoy! Source: How To Use Russian Piping Tips
National Cupcake Day
Cupcakes: soft, sweet, mouth watering desserts. Today is National Cupcake day and what better way to get through a Monday than by celebrating such a wonderful day! The thought of the beautiful frosted icing has the ability to make any freshly baked cupcake alluring. After a long Monday their is not a more enticing activity than…
National Pie Day!
Today is National Pie Day! That wonderfully delicious pastry that can be enjoyed no matter what time of the year it is. In honor of this momentous occasion, we couldn’t resist sharing a few of our favorite recipes! Who knows maybe this will inspire you to bake your own pie or maybe just eat some!…
Are You Whisking the Best Way You Can Be?
Video Credit: America’s Test Kitchen From America’s Test Kitchen: We’ve noticed that different cooks seem to favor different motions when using a whisk. Some prefer side-to-side strokes, others use circular stirring, and others like the looping action of beating that takes the whisk up and out of the bowl. That got us wondering: Is any one…
The Ultimate Baker Ruler
The Problem: You’re in your baking lab and you’re asked to caramelize your sugar. What do you bring the temperature to? You can’t seem to remember! What do you do next? Should you pull out your phone to Google it? Or get your textbook to look it up? Both these options seem unsanitary. WHAT DO YOU…
Tools for The Discriminating Chef 