To bake is to be human. And baking, like life, is about reinvention and improvisation. Whether your tastes run to crusty breads, flaky pastries or chewy cookies, you’ll need to build your skills on a ...

In a professional bakery kitchen, you’ll see plenty of multi-purpose tools in action, and cabinets full of gadgets that are equally believable as scalp massagers or torture devices. Although there’s a ...

Biting into a warm cookie is pure bliss whether you prefer soft, melt-in-your-mouth treats or those that crunch and crumble. And thankfully, they’re easy for home bakers of all levels to make. Cookies ...

Baking at home is an accident-prone yet beloved hobby that can sometimes be riddled with mistakes, fear, and uncertainty. When you finally manage to create something beautiful and delicious, you ...

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Few things in life spark as much joy as pulling a tray of hot cookies out of the oven. And what makes baking cookies so great is that your level of expertise doesn’t really matter. There are tons of ...

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 and fascinating tools, but most of it is ...

A hard week at the office, family issues, that pile of laundry, bills to pay: When the going gets tough, the tough get baking. Yes, stress baking is real, and whether you’re a pastry chef in the ...

We talked to professional bakers about the steps involved in making homemade cookies and the tools they recommend using throughout the baking process. With their guidance in mind, we put together a ...

I just completed my first semester of a two-year pastry program, and I'm learning a lot. My baking improved the most when I had access to a kitchen scale and an offset spatula. The scale helps with ...