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Hi, I'm Janice. I am a baking-obsessed recipe developer with a Ph.D. in Chemistry who writes about baking and the science of baking. Get the best baking recipes, from simple chewy chocolate chip cookies to elaborate layer cakes. Learn about baking ingredients, the science of baking, and how to troubleshoot your baking recipes when something goes wrong.
The Bake School Blog
4d ago
Learn how to make the best lemon poppy seed cookies with this easy recipe. These cream cheese sugar cookies are laced with lots of lemon zest, poppy seeds, and a tiny amount of citric acid to bring that bright lemony flavour everybody loves. This recipe doesn't require any chilling so you can make the lemon...
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The Bake School Blog
2w ago
Learn how to make the best maple whipped cream with this easy recipe. This whipped cream frosting is made with mascarpone and whipped cream, creating a more stable topping, sweetened with maple syrup. You can sweeten whipped cream with maple syrup, but it takes some adjustments in terms of the ingredients and quantities. Maple whipped...
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The Bake School Blog
1M ago
Learn how to make the best orange poppy seed cake with this easy recipe. This glazed orange cake is made with sour cream, loaded with poppy seeds, and brushed with orange syrup for a fun twist on the classic lemon-poppy seed flavour combination. This orange loaf cake is one of my favourite cakes to make...
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The Bake School Blog
3M ago
Learn how to make the best gingerbread cake with this easy recipe. You don't need a mixer to make this moist gingerbread cake, sweetened with molasses and dark brown sugar and flavoured with lots of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves. This simple Christmas cake is great topped with white chocolate cream cheese frosting and...
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The Bake School Blog
4M ago
Learn how to make the best Nanaimo bars, the classic Canadian dessert recipe. This easy bar recipe is made in layers, with a dark chocolate graham cracker and coconut crust, a sweet vanilla custard filling, and a dark chocolate topping. There was a scandal years ago when the New York Times shared a photo of...
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The Bake School Blog
4M ago
If you want to bake with sweet potatoes, you will need to transform raw sweet potatoes into a silky smooth purée. Learn how to make sweet potato purée for pies in the microwave with this easy recipe. This is the technique I use to make sweet potato purée for baking. I used this purée to...
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The Bake School Blog
4M ago
Learn how to make the best sweet potato pie with this easy recipe. The sweet potato pie filling is sweetened with maple sugar and flavoured with bourbon to give this fall pie a unique flavour. This sweet potato pie is a great alternative to the classic Thanksgiving pumpkin pie! The formula and method for both...
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The Bake School Blog
4M ago
Learn how to make the perfect pie crust by hand with this easy recipe. This a;; butter pie dough doesn't crack and rolls out beautifully for gorgeous pie crusts that hold their shape as they bake! This crust works great for lattice work and cutout decorations on pies too. This is my go-to pie crust...
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The Bake School Blog
6M ago
Learn how to make the best banana oatmeal cookies with this easy recipe. These delicious cakey chocolate chip cookies are loaded with oats, mashed banana, and toasted nuts, creating a cakey texture with crunchy edges. Some people love crispy oatmeal raisin cookies, and others prefer soft and chewy oatmeal raisin cookies. These banana oatmeal cookies...
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The Bake School Blog
6M ago
Learn how to make a delicious apple blackberry crumble with this easy recipe. This is a twist on the classic apple crisp with blackberries in the filling and oats in the topping creating the perfect late summer, early fall dessert. Combining apples and blackberries is a great way to mark the changing of the season...
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