Category "baking"

What happened to my cornbread? Please help [closed]

please help me. My cornbread sunk in the middle.what did I do wrong?

Best practices for baking experiment 'design'?

Is there a generally accepted best way to experiment with recipes? When starting with a recipe that is not 'quite right', if you wanted to tweak the quantities

What kind of nonstick coating is this?

I recently bought a Good Cook brand sheet cake pan, not realizing that it was nonstick. I'm was wondering what kind of nonstick coating it had, since the only c

Is it OK to freeze chocolate?

is it ok to freeze chocolate and for how long? I received 50 lbs of chocolate chips from my sister. I want to freeze some but not sure how long they will last.

Prefermenting the whole sourdough rye bread

Why is it recommended to preferment only a portion of the dough required to make a sourdough rye bread? What can go wrong if I preferment the whole batch? My cu

Will blending corn meal make baking corn dog batter more user friendly?

I made a baking corn dog batter (cornmeal muffins with hot dogs spaced out in a glass baking pan) a long time ago, and it turned out well, with one minor glitch

Question about chiffon cake

My wife has been working on making a chiffon cake. The picture below is attempt number 10. She has varied the temperature of the oven, used a metal tray or no

How do I cook a cottage pie from chilled?

I made a cottage pie yesterday afternoon but did not cook it. I cooked the mince and veg and the mash, put it in the dish but did not put it in the oven. I then

Troubleshooting Oven BBQ Cooking Times

I'm having a hard time letting go of using cooking time & internal temperature as metrics when it comes to cooking BBQ, especially when using the oven. For

My oven cooks unevenly

My oven is a Westinghouse. The serial numbers are as follows:- POL660S*02 230-240 V a.c. SERIAL: 52610542 APP NO: S/91 The problem is that it cooks unevenly an

Is there an alternative to cornstarch when used to thicken a pie filling

I made a some pies a couple of days ago. The recipe called for cornstarch and it thicken the filling after it came out of the oven. The only thing is I could ta

Baking (pizza) stone and effects on puff pastry

My pizza stone basically "lives" in my oven and I will be baking on it tomorrow. Also on tomorrow's kitchen agenda: small palmiers, sugared slices of puff past

Can I replace eggs, oil and water with apple sauce or just eggs?

So I am wanting to make chocolate zucchini bread and I plan on buying muffin mix from the store. I generally use apple sauce to replace eggs but I know the muff

Can panettone paper molds be used for other things?

Can the paper forms used to make panettone be used to bake cake batter? Any cake, a basic dough, sponge cake, chiffon, genoise, etc.

Can I substitute buttermilk by curdling coconut milk with acid?

I love to bake but can't justify buying buttermilk for the odd time a recipe calls for it. Instead, I add vinegar to milk to replicate the buttermilk.(it works

Impossible to manage sticky dough

Even after finding many people with my same problem and some nice answers, nothing really works. I have watched many youtube tutorials on how to handle and shap

Low sodium French Bread or Baguette

Is it possible to make low sodium French Bread or Baguettes? My husband is on a low sodium diet and will only eat French Bread. I know there is a relationship

How to butter and flour the chimney of a bundt form

I recently baked a rather sticky cake which called for a bundt pan. When I use a standard cake pan, I first put on the fat (either pouring oil and swishing it,

How much gluten flour do I need to add?

Ill spare everyone the boring details and just say that im trying to mimick a pizza at home. I know that the original pizza uses a flour with 15% protein but I

Enlarging from a home bakery to a commercial bakery

I am presently a dessert baker in my licensed home kitchen and am moving to a retail storefront location with a commercial dessert bakery. My proprietary recipe