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…
The Easiest Way to Make Pigs in a Blanket
Pigs in a blanket seem like easy comfort food because the recipe only requires two ingredients, but no one tells you that you’ll be cutting and rolling sticky strips of…
The Best Way to Weigh Down Your Pie Crusts
Photo: Adri Smuts (Shutterstock) Blind baking pie crusts should be simple: You line crimped, chilled pastry with parchment or foil, fill with dried beans to weigh it down, and bake…
The Easiest Way to Keep Waffles From Sticking to Your Waffle Iron
Weekends and waffles belong together and nothing should ever come between them, especially not the damn waffle maker. When greased up correctly, removing waffles from the hot iron is no…
Make a Perverted Trifle With Pop-Tarts
A trifle is the hot-mess-best-friend of desserts. It would be all over the place if it wasn’t for the giant bowl holding it together, but the good qualities outweigh the…
Why Haven’t You Wrapped Your Cookies in Phyllo Dough?
Cookies are the perfect treat, and each one is valuable to society. And yet, I’ve recently unwittingly stumbled upon an outstanding way to improve almost any cookie. To experience an…
You Don’t Need a Pie Bird
Photo: Courtesy of Amazon Checking a pie for doneness can be a tricky business. This is especially true for double crust pies (because everything’s hidden on the inside). Taking your…
9 Things Your Local Bakery Is Probably Freezing
Photo: Pixel-Shot (Shutterstock) Most butter-based cookie doughs are great candidates for freezing. Bakeries will make huge mounds of dough and scoop portioned balls out onto a sheet pan. A few…
10 Professional Baking Tools I Use at Home
Photo: Ugorenkov Aleksandr (Shutterstock) Before working in a bakery, I’d fix a cake on a plate and get annoyed when it wouldn’t sit flat. Most dinner plates are slightly concave,…
Daunted By Meringues? Easy, Fool-Proof Microwave Meringue Recipe Inside
Meringues sound like something only pastry chefs can whip up. Maybe it’s the way they’re spelled and pronounced but, for me, the prospect of making meringues used to make me…