Baking & Desserts
Can Applesauce be Substituted for Oil in Box-Mix Brownies?
Can applesauce be substituted for oil in box-mix brownies?
Can You Infuse Flavor into Brown Sugar with Spent Vanilla Pods?
We add spent vanilla beans to white sugar in order to make vanilla sugar. Does this work with brown sugar?
Getting to Know: Chocolate
All chocolate starts with the cacao bean. From there, different processing, flavorings, ingredients, and percentages of cocoa solids and cocoa butter can produce chocolate of all sorts. Here’s a sampler.
Are Turbinado, Demerara, and Sugar in the Raw Interchangable?
What’s the difference between turbinado, Demerara, and Sugar in the Raw? Are they interchangeable?
Substituting Dark Chocolate for Unsweetened
Recently I was making brownies and the recipe called for unsweetened chocolate. The only chocolate I had was dark "eating" chocolate. How can I substitute dark chocolate for unsweetened?
Using Agave Nectar in Place of Honey in Baking
I recently saw a bottle of agave nectar in the grocery store. Can I use it in place of honey in baking?
