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Baking Essentials & How-tos

Baking is a science and we all have to start somewhere. Whether you are an absolute beginner or have a few recipes under your belt, learn about the importance of ingredients in baking, and try out a few simple and delicious recipes to get you off on the right foot.

Making your own Caramelized Sugar Dust to garnish special desserts, mixing up homemade buttermilk when you’re all out, and browning butter will up your baking game and make you the star of your next pot luck!

A spoonful of coconut caramel falling straight down into a glass jar.

Coconut Recipes

Coconut Caramel

A spoonful of miso caramel drizzling into a pan.

Miso Desserts

Miso Caramel

Top down view of a jar of macadamia nut butter with a pink spatula.

Macadamia Recipes

Easy Macadamia Nut Butter with Honey

Coconut sauce is dripping down a spoon into a glass jar.

Coconut Recipes

10-Minute Coconut Sauce

A spoon with a serving of my recipe for strawberry compote on it.

Recipes

Strawberry Compote (or Strawberry Sauce)

My berry compote recipe in a jar with a spoon.

Recipes

Mixed Berry Compote Recipe (with Frozen Berries)

Pumpkin pie spice in a jar with a spoon of spice in front of it.

Recipes

How to Make Pumpkin Pie Spice

Ground spices for apple pie spice on a plate.

Recipes

How to Make Apple Pie Spice

Almond frangipane in the bowl of a food processor.

Recipes

Almond Frangipane Recipe

Blueberry Compote on a spoon

Recipes

Blueberry Compote

A spatula holding a piece of almond paste just made in a food processor.

Recipes

Easy Homemade Almond Paste (with video)

Kabocha pumpkin puree in a food processor.

Fall

Roasting a whole kabocha (+ make pumpkin puree)

Brown butter in a sauce pan.

How-tos

How to Make Brown Butter

A spoon picking up some lemon curd from a jar next to some lemons

Recipes

How to Make Lemon Curd

A jar of apple butter.

Recipes

Slow Cooker Apple Butter

Pouring buttermilk into a glass jar

How-tos

4 Ways to Make Buttermilk Substitutes

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