Baking Basics | Stress Baking

Ingredients for vanilla cake on a white counter

10 Ways to Upgrade Boxed Cake Mix

Pile of soft brown sugar

How to Soften Brown Sugar (6 Ways!)

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How to Make a Lemon Twist Garnish

How to Store Leftover Champagne

How to Store Leftover Champagne

Simple sugar being poured from a white pitcher into a small glass bottle

How to Make Simple Syrup

Smooth balls of tan colored dough on a baking sheet

How To Freeze Cookie Dough

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What is “stress baking”?

A small clear jar filled with buttermilk in front of a sliced lemon with a blue and white striped dishtowel

How to Make Buttermilk

Jars of sprinkles on a two tier lazy susan

Sprinkles 101: The Different Types of Sprinkles and How to Use Them

Holiday tin full of a variety of Christmas cookies on a red tablecloth

How to Ship Cookies in the Mail

A measuring cup full of a mound of cake flour

How to Make Cake Flour

Flour mixture being poured into a bowl of creamed butter and sugar

Why You Mix Dry and Wet Ingredients Separately

Blueberry muffin in a homemade parchment paper muffin liner

How to Make Muffin Liners Out of Parchment Paper

Clear plastic canisters of flours

Flour 101: How to Use Different Types of Flour

A stick of better with an indentation from being temperature tested

What Room Temperature Butter Means (and Why It’s Important)

The back of a white ThemoWorks ChefAlarm showing the Celsius and Fahrenheit conversion button

How to Convert Temperatures from Fahrenheit to Celsius