5 Baking Tips

Running out of products in the middle of cooking and baking is as annoying as it is inevitable and almost magnetic at times. Here are 5 baking tips that you will continue to use over and over to help get you through your recipes.

Icing Sugar – The # 1 Baking Tip is Icing sugar. It is actually an extremely simple process that anyone can do. Children will still require adult supervision. All that is required for you to do is simply blend refined white sugar. Check the consistency, and then blend some more. Repeating the process until it finally provides you with a perfect icing sugar. It really doesn’t take that long and patience is a virtue. INGREDIENTS: White Sugar TOOLS: Blender.

Brown Sugar – The # 2 Baking Tip is Brown sugar, a necessary requirement in some recipes, and sometimes you just may not have it, or have enough on hand. Luckily if you have white sugar and some molasses you can create your own brown sugars in all their varying shades. Whether it is a light brown sugar which only requires about 1/2 a tablespoon of molasses per cup of sugar blended well. A medium brown sugar will use about a tablespoon of molasses per cup of sugar after blended. The darker brown requires one and a half to two tablespoons of molasses per cup to sugar. Dependent on your tastes and recipe’s requirements. INGREDIENTS: White Sugar and Molasses.

Cake Flour – The # 3 Baking Tip is Cake flour, something you may not have on hand on the normal day to day, and if you’re a stickler to your recipes and need cake flour but only have all purpose heres the trick you want to know. Remove two tablespoons of flour per cup and replace with two tablespoons of corn starch. Mixing well. INGREDIENTS: All Purpose Flour and corn starch.

Self Rising Flour – The # 4 Baking Tip is self rising flour. Self rising flour is another one of those specialty flours that most of us wont have in our kitchen on the day to day. Luckily it is also easily created out of your all purpose flour. All that is required is to add a quarter teaspoon of salt and one and a half teaspoons of baking powder to each cup of all purpose flour. Repeating the process for each cup required in the recipe. INGREDIENTS: All Purpose Flour, salt and baking powder.

Buttermilk – The # 5 Baking Tips is Buttermilk. Often used in many recipes, buttermilk is something I personally rarely have on hand. Luckily adding a tablespoon of lemon juice OR vinegar per cup of milk makes it happen with a simple stir and allowing the milk to sit for five to ten minutes. After the rest, another stir and then add your buttermilk to your recipe. INGREDIENTS: Milk or half and half, and lemon juice or vinegar.