Learning How to Bake: Baking Tips, Techniques, and Hints

Table of Contents

Introduction
Pie dishes and Cake dishes
How to Measure Baking Utensils
Tips For Ingredients
How to Make Caster Sugar
Basic Baking Tips
Oven Temperature
Getting Your Tins Ready
Common Mistakes
Proper Cooling
Storing
What Happened There? – Baking Disasters
My Cake Sank!
Rock Heavy Cake
The Cake Is Too Dry
Oven Temperature Guide
Handy Measures Chart
Sponge Cake – Fail Proof Baking
Pastry Making
Rolling out the Pastry
“Baking Blind”
Sausage Pie Recipe
Biscuits and Cookies
Dropped from a Spoon Cookies
Icing and Cake Decorations
Piping Swirls And Spirals
Appendix
Conclusion
Author Bio
Publisher

Introduction

When people of my generation begin talking about their childhoods, especially when they have been brought up in a what we can only call a conventional/ traditional atmosphere, just ask them about the thing they miss most and most of the time, they are going to talk about the scent of freshly baked cakes, cookies, or just anything coming out from the oven, baked by either grandma or by mom!

In fact, the traditional cliché of a stereotyped grandma is the one who made the best chocolate chip cookies for her grandchildren when they came to visit.

So this book is going to bring you back to the joys of baking. Don't worry if you have never baked anything before. Don' worry if your first results or something which even the mutt would cringe at – been there, seen that, grrr, – in fact when the kids asked whether they could borrow the rock buns for a ice – hockey puck, because they had lost theirs, I nearly flung the rock buns at them – so have fun baking.