How to Blind Bake a Pie Crust (Because You Probably Should)
Baking a pie or tart is theoretically simple—filling goes in the crust, bake, and eat. But the devil is in the details, as they say, and one part of the…
Your Thanksgiving Dinner Needs These No-Knead Dinner Rolls
There’s a time and a place for chewy, crusty homemade bread. Bread that requires 12 minutes of constant kneading to make. Bread that’s full of glorious, stretchy gluten. That place…
Evil Week: Pass Off Cheap Baked Goods As the Expensive Stuff
Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games,…
Don’t Give Up, You Can Re-soften Stale Cookies
Freshly baked cookies are comfort food at its finest, and when stored properly, they should keep their integrity for close to a week. But occasionally, accidents happen. Soft cookies get…
Bake a Taller Cake Without Buying a Deeper Pan
There are times when I’ve needed two identical cake pans, and only had one shallow pan to work with, and there have been times when I just needed a deeper…
Make a Mini Loaf of Bread With a Single Cup of Flour
There are loads of simple white bread recipes out there, many of which yield multiple loaves worth of dough. Whether you’re a seasoned bread baker, or trying your hand at…
Make a Big Batch of Fluffy Soufflé Pancakes in Your Oven
Japanese soufflé pancakes are fluffy, impressively tall, entirely Instagram-able, and they taste great to boot. You don’t have to go to a restaurant to have your own towering breakfast cake.…
The Eight Basic Baking Tools You Need (Even If You Don’t Bake That Much)
Whether you have no interest in baking, or can’t wait to get your oven mitts dirty, you’re going to need some solid baking gear. There’s a huge range of fancy…
Keep a Baguette in the Freezer for Easy Entertaining
Baguettes are at their best the day they’re baked, which can make stockpiling them a little challenging. But cheese plates feel incomplete without crusty bread, so I like to keep…
How to Cook Ground Beef so It Actually Browns
Aesthetically speaking, ground meat is not the most pleasing of animal proteins. When raw, it is all squishy and speckled, and more often than not, cooking it just transforms the…