Welcome! We are home bakers who know a thing or two, and want to share some lifelong baking skills and recipes that will endure long after a flurry of pandemic baking.
If you don’t have a lot of time, and need to make a cake for a birthday or a potluck, this is the recipe for you. Including the filling, frosting, and decorating instructions, this chocolate cake recipe was designed to make the the most impressive cake with the least amount of specialized equipment. You can…
We know why you are here, and we have the recipe for you. This sourdough recipe is pretty straightforward and makes excellent bread. I have used many recipes for sourdough, and this is my favourite one so far. Being the easiest is an extra added bonus. This recipe does not teach you how to make…
If you want a pastry for dessert, a fruit galette is your fastest way to get there. The pastry is very easy to make, and then you can just roll out the dough, add chopped fruit or berries, bake, and voilà, dessert is made! A slightly richer and more elegant version can be made if…
This is perhaps my favourite pastry. It is very quick to make, and let’s say almost foolproof (!). It takes longer to assemble the equipment on the counter and get the ingredients from the cupboard than it takes to make this pastry. I teach this recipe in a course called “flaky pastry”. All types of…
This is a very unusual pastry. I have never seen a recipe like this one. It contains sour cream, eggs, and yeast, of all things. Who every heard of pastry with yeast? My mother has it written out on a recipe card, in Russian, and it is the one she uses for koulibiaka, a very…
This recipe is based on the famous No-Knead Bread recipe created by Jim Lahey and published in the New York Times. It has been modified slightly to improve the precision of the dough hydration, and to improve the rise. I first discuss how and why this recipe works, but if you are TL;DR, just skip…
