November/December 2020

Bake from Scratch

A celebration of all things baking

Bake from Scratch1 min readLeadership
Bake From Scratch
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Brian Hart Hoffman MANAGING EDITOR Kyle Grace Mills ASSISTANT EDITOR Sandi Shriver DIGITAL EDITOR Beth Branch EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Alex Kolar SENIOR COPY EDITOR Rhonda Lee Lother COPY EDITOR Meg Lundberg CREATIVE DIRECTOR/PHOTOGRAPHY M
Bake from Scratch4 min readRegional & Ethnic
Editors Letter
IF YOU’RE LIKE ME, THE HOLIDAY SEASON IS PRIME TIME FOR BAKING. The celebratory period seems ideal for icing cookies, frosting cakes, and rolling out dough. Maybe it’s the holiday state of mind or maybe it’s just the cold snap, but eitherway, I can’t
Bake from Scratch1 min readRegional & Ethnic
Recipe Index & Resources
Chocolate-Dulce de Leche Bars 103 Chocolate-Peanut Butter-Pistachio Biscotti 105 Cream Cheese-Stuffed Vanilla-Peppermint Cookies 15 Christmas Sugar Cookies 40 Eggnog Nanaimo Bars 28 Gingerbread Custard Bars 62 Ornament Cookies 42 Pearl Sugar Ginger C
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Baker Spotlight
How did you first get into baking and when did you decide that a blog was the next step on your baking journey? LC: My mom had a cake-decorating business when I was a small child, so I remember her teaching me the basics, and I was certainly raised i
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Hot From The Oven
LOOKING FOR A FEW TOOLS AND COOKBOOKS TO BOOST YOUR HOLIDAY BAKING SPIRIT? SPICE UP YOUR LIFE WITH THIS SEASON’S PICKS, FROM SASSY SPRINKLES TO SPACE-SAVING COOKIE CUTTERS, PLUS NEWLY RELEASED TOMES THAT TACKLE EVERYTHING FROM BROWNIES TO MILE-HIGH B
Bake from Scratch6 min readCooking, Food & Wine
Eggs
What came first, the chicken or the egg? It’s a question with no answer, the perfect example of a logic paradox. An easier question: what came first, the baker or the egg? For most of us, we became a baker once we laid our hands on an egg. No other b
Bake from Scratch4 min readCooking, Food & Wine
Eggnog Nanaimo Bars
What I miss most about my maternal grandmother, Megan Shackleton (née Lloyd-Jones), is her bubbly, full-throated laugh. When that magnetic sound was directed at you, it made you feel like the most winsome and interesting person in the room. Before sh
Bake from Scratch7 min readCooking, Food & Wine
Life from Scratch
For many, “hands-on” is just an expression. For Maria Provenzano, it’s a way of life. Maria is the ever-capable mind behind From Scratch with Maria, a blog devoted to crafting, and one of the resident DIY experts on The Hallmark Channel’s Home & Fami
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Royal Iced Cookies
In 1840, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert celebrated their nuptials with an exquisitely ornate wedding cake that weighed 300 pounds and was 10 feet in circumference. Adorned with Greco-Roman motifs of laurels and bouquets and crowned with sculptures
Bake from Scratch8 min readDiet & Nutrition
Pretty in Pearl
There are two common pearl sugar varieties: Belgian and Swedish. The sugars differ primarily in pearl size. Belgian offers a bigger granule, which can handle higher heat and maintains its shape better. It is often mixed into doughs and batters where
Bake from Scratch8 min readCooking, Food & Wine
Cue the Custard
Makes 1 (9-inch) cake This cheesecake is all custard, no filler. An iconic crustless cheesecake from the Basque region of Spain, the Basque cheesecake has a starkly scorched top with a creamy, just-set interior thanks to a high-temperature bake. We i
Bake from Scratch11 min readCooking, Food & Wine
1-2-3-4 Holiday Cakes
Easy to remember and a cinch to pull together, the beauty of the 1-2-3-4 cake lies not in only its simplicity but also in its versatility. Bakers looking for a foolproof recipe to use as their platform for revolutionary flavors return to this formula
Bake from Scratch7 min readCooking, Food & Wine
Very Merry Tarts
Makes 1 (9½-inch) tart Sparkling wine and chocolate are a winning combination, creating a celebratory tart ideal for this festive season. With a graham cracker crumb base, a semisweet ganache filling, and a sparkling wine-spiked white chocolate cream
Bake from Scratch8 min readCooking, Food & Wine
’Twas the Night Before Christmas
Makes 20 rolls Our savory pull-apart bread wreath features the most versatile of doughs, Japanese milk bread—a tender enriched dough that receives a moist boost from tangzhong, or Milk Roux. Packed with dill, butter, and garlic powder, the bread doug
Bake from Scratch6 min readCooking, Food & Wine
Kugelhopf
Resembling an edible coronet adorned with glistening almonds and amaretto-plumped golden raisins, the kugelhopf is a majestic cake. The delicate crumb, lighter than air and reminiscent of tender brioche, is the product of the unusual addition of bake
Bake from Scratch8 min readDiet & Nutrition
Signed, Sealed Delivered
In a large tin or bakery box lined with parchment paper, line up biscotti in rows, packing as tightly as you can. If you have room to stack another row of biscotti, place a piece of parchment paper or wax paper between the two layers for protection.
Bake from Scratch2 min readCooking, Food & Wine
Gingerbread Dutch Baby Pancake
Makes 4 servings Classic Dutch baby pancakes are like the decadent hybrid of a popover and a pancake. The batter comes together in a blender—no stand mixer required—and then gets baked in a piping-hot buttered skillet. Rich enough to be served for a
Bake from Scratch2 min readRegional & Ethnic
Poignant Pound Cake
My memories of my granny’s five-flavor pound cake may be almost as centered around eating it as baking it. Granny used to make this pound cake for every celebration we had when I was growing up, but it was also the type of cake she would bake and sen

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