BakeTips
Clever and useful tips for your kitchen.
Cutting Scones
Do your scones rise unevenly?
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Roasted vegetables
Roasting vegetables tonight?
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One Egg at a Time
When using eggs always break each one into a separate small bowl or ramekin
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Rubbing Butter into Flour
When making pastry, such as a shortcrust, by hand make sure you only use your fingertips to rub the butter into the flour.
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Coloured Icing Sugar
We all know a little dusting of icing sugar can be the perfect finishing touch for our sweet baking.
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Frozen Berries
When using frozen berries in your baking add them to the mixture straight from the freezer.
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Making shortcrust pastry in a Food Processor
Using your food processor when making shortcrust pastry is dead easy and super quick. Follow these three simple steps:
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Sifting Wholemeal Flour
When sifting wholemeal flour don’t throw away the husks caught in the sieve.
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Using the Tare Setting on Your Digital Scales
Use the Tare Setting on your Electronic Scales.
To save you time when baking, make good use of your electronic scale’s ability to 'zero' the reading.
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When to use the Paddle Attachment
Most stand mixers are now sold with a range of attachments made for specific mixing jobs, including a 'paddle' one.
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Less Sugar in Cakes
Ever wondered what would happen to the appearance of a cake if you reduce (or forget to add) the sugar? The white chocolate and almond cupcakes on the right have no added sugar (by mistake!)...
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Cracked Meringues
Cracks are a common problem when making meringue but they are easy to avoid when you know what is causing them.
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Lining a Shallow Tin
When lining a shallow tin, such as a Swiss roll tin or slice tin, the simplest way to ensure that the base and all four sides are lined is to take a single piece of non-stick baking paper that is about 8cm larger than the base of the tin.
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Chewy Meringues
Some like ‘em crisp, some like ‘em chewy. If you fall into the chewy camp with your meringues it is easy to make sure they have this hard-to-resist texture by taking them from the oven as soon as they have finished baking...
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Don't Grease Tart Tins
When making a pie or tart there is no need to grease the tin before you line it with pastry – the high butter content in the pastry will naturally stop it from sticking to the tin.
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Don't Let Cake Mixture Sit Around
As soon as your cake mixture is ready bake it straight away. If a finished cake mixture sits for too long before going into the oven you won’t get the best results – especially cakes with egg whites
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Butterfly Cakes
I don’t know about you but I always seem to get my wings around the wrong way when making butterfly cakes! Here’s a simple method to make sure they are flying in the right direction…...
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