Baking Guides

My air fryer lives on the worktop because the oven takes twenty minutes to get anywhere and I am not a patient woman. Half an hour into an episode I'm hungry, and I've learnt the hard way to bake the …

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Baking has fashions, exactly like clothes or paint colours. If you are looking for inspiration what to buy for your baking fanatical friend or family member, have a read through. This is what we belie …

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Sourdough is harder on a loaf tin than anything else you will bake in one. A cake batter goes into a cold tin, sits there for fifty minutes and comes out. A tin sourdough is shaped, dropped in, covere …

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Most donut pans disappoint in one of two ways. The floppy silicone sort folds in half as you lift it, slops batter across the oven shelf, and turns out rings so pale they look unbaked. The thin metal …

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Most mini cheesecake disasters happen in the last thirty seconds. The bake went well, the tops set without a crack, everything cooled properly. Then the first one comes out in two pieces with the bisc …

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You tip the tin, give it a confident shake, and the loaf moves about a centimetre. Then it stops. You shake harder, the top half comes away in your hand, and the base stays behind, welded in place lik …

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