Baking tips and tricks
Learn all the secrets to baking like a pro!
Let your Christmas baking project commence: How to make the perfect gingerbread house
If you want to get in on a little of that Christmas magic, here is the guide to your perfect...
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How to make rough puff pastry in 5 steps
Making pastry at home is easier than you might think, although a little messy at times. Plus it is very...
8 Tips to baking the perfect cheesecake
It's rich, smooth and creamy – sultry words, if you ask me, for the perfect baked cheesecake. Though there are...
How to make the perfect, flop-proof chocolate fondant
(image: iStock) A chocolate fondant is the heavenly concoction of partially baked chocolate pudding with a warm oozing chocolate filling,...
Baking hacks: How to make 5 different cookies from 1 base recipe
This isn’t a recipe, it’s a set of instructions for magic! Whether you’re baking cookies for lunchboxes, to spoil colleagues,...
How to understand the settings on your oven for cake-baking success
Getting to know your oven can be a little like blind dating: sometimes the first date is a huge success...
Secrets to making the perfect tart case – and there’s vodka involved
ALSO READ: How to get those perfectly sharp edges when icing a cake Whether you’re making a milk tart or a...
Vegan? How the liquid from a tin of chickpeas will change your baking life
(image: iStock) You know aquafaba is making waves when it makes its way into the Scrabble dictionary. Yup, you can...
Baking Hacks: 6 tips to avoid a dry, crumbly cake
(Images: Getty Images) ALSO READ: 6 Baking tins everyone should have and why it makes a difference There’s nothing worse...
6 Baking tins everyone should have and why it makes a difference
Recipe says: ‘Grease and line a 22-cm cake tin’ You: ‘I’ll use a 30-cm tin what difference does it make?!’...
