Here is an important need to know basics when you come to cakes. Hope this helps you.. When it comes to baking cakes, the important step to remove the cake out of the pan is greasing it properly. There are so many ways you can grease a cake pan. I…
BAKING BASICS
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Baking Basics – Tools
We come to the second part of the series. This is a post which could be useful for beginners. Pros can stay away from this. After looking into the OTG, we are now here to know about some of the tools you may need to bake basic cakes and cookies.…
Edible Sugar Lace – Gelatin Free
Who doesn’t love intricately decorated cakes? Nowadays I think only of various techniques of cake decorating. I am a member of Home Bakers Guild on FB and ever since I became a member, I visit the group page daily to see all the beautiful creations by home bakers. The members…
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Baking Basics – Oven
Diwali is over but I am not yet back to my routine. After a lot of travel and being sick, today I wanted to be back to normal. For me being normal means I need to write a post in my blog. This series of posts has been in my mind for…
Conversion of Recipe Measurements
This chart will help you in converting recipe measurements according to your preference. I have given temperature chart, cups and weight chart and teaspoons and weight chart for your use. Temperature Chart: First we will deal with Oven Temperatures. In India, you can see ovens marked with Celsius whereas while reading recipes…
Home Made Mascarpone Cheese
Mascarpone cheese is hard to get in Indian stores and even if you get the cost is sky high. When I prepared Italian dessert Tiramisu for one of the challenges, I made the cheese at home after seeing an online post at baking Obsession. Mascarpone cheese is made by curdling fresh…
How to use a Vanilla Bean
Whenever I see someone using a vanilla bean, I imagine myself doing so but it just remained in my imagination until I saw a pack of vanilla beans at Nilgiris in Coimbatore. I had only three and was priced at 135 INR. It was so costly but I bought it…
Homemade Eggless Almond Paste
Amond paste is an important ingredient in many pastries. This can be used to make cakes, cookies, and used as fillings in tarts, pies and many pastries. It can be readily available in markets but in Madurai, we don’t get it. I needed almond paste to make the German Tree…
Home Made Ricotta Cheese
Ricotta is an Italian cheese used in a lot of Italian pastries and desserts. Recently I made a Italian Pastry – Sfogliatelle Ricci and Sfogliatelle Frolle for which I needed ricotta for filling. To make ricotta at home you need milk and curd. IT is a very simple process, and…
How To Line A Pie Dish with Short Crust Pastry
If you have started baking recently, you will be having so many doubts about trivial things. But clearing those doubts is most important in getting the perfect results in baking. That is what I am trying to write in all my Baking Basics posts. Today we will see about lining…