Puff pastry can be difficult to understand sometimes, but most of the time it’s actually a really fun dough. Because of the way it puffs up you can make some of the lightest. flakiest desserts or snacks or pies ever ! Once you get the hang of it, you’ll fall in love with it. One …
Croissants are an amazingly delicious and fluffy, light, flaky pastry. They became the world’s choice for breakfast, either for a treat or for daily life. They’re just too good ! But have you noticed how most of the time croissants are crescent shaped ? Did you ever wonder why ? No? Well we did, and …
Carrot cake is an amazingly delicious cake, for being made with carrots. Despite the name, its general flavor is nowhere near anything carrot-like. The carrots help with sweetness, but the flavor isn’t carrot. If anything it’s more like a pumpkin pie. But what do you do when you don’t want to use carrots in your …
Holiday season ! Cookie time, mulled wine, decorations, roast turkey and of course gingerbread ! Gingerbread is a staple of the holiday season, the same way pumpkin pie is a staple of Thanksgiving. So of course, you want to make the best, most delicious gingerbread out there. You get the perfect recipe and you bake …
If you’re allergic to ginger you may want to know if gingerbread has actual ginger in it. It could be one of those cases that has a name but no one’s really sure why anymore. It turns out gingerbread has a long history and started out as a practical food item, rather than a decorative …
Thanksgiving is fast approaching and you’ve got all your meals thought out, the only thing missing is the pie. How soon can you make it, and how long can it stay in the fridge ? Does pumpkin pie need to be refrigerated ? You’ve seem them on shelves in supermarkets and they didn’t seem cold. …
One of the most commonly asked questions when it comes to bread is: does it contain eggs? So, if you had this question bouncing around your culinary brain, you are certainly not alone! After all, there’s bread and then there’s bread. And you can make bread out of almost any kind of dough, which means …
Sometimes, you want to make brownies. And sometimes, you have no eggs for the brownie mix. What to do ? Find some egg substitutes, of course ! Now, let’s see what you can replace eggs wit in a brownie mix, because this may just come in handy. Can you make brownie mix without eggs ? …