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Baking911.com view detail comment email this

Provides "detailed information, tips, [and] techniques" for the home baker, as well as recipes for breads, cookies, pies, cakes, and other desserts. The website features practical information such as how best to freeze freshly baked cookies and homemade cookie dough or how to melt chocolate (found in the "how to" section). Also covers the chemistry of cooking. From a professional baker.
http://www.baking911.com/
Topics: Food & Cooking, Recipes & Food Preparation, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners

Last updated Dec 2, 2005


BBC Food: Tea view detail comment email this

Brief overview of tea drinking in the United Kingdom, covering history, traditions, and instructions for preparing tea. Includes recipes for afternoon tea, such as sandwiches, biscuits, and fruit tarts. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mostof_tea.shtml
Topics: Beverages, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners

Last updated Dec 2, 2004


Christmas-Cookies.com view detail comment email this

A database of nearly 400 Christmas cookie recipes. The site offers baking tips such as how to organize baking a large variety of cookies and how to store them, as well as links to sites that carry specialty baking supplies. Browsable and searchable.
http://www.christmas-cookies.com/
Topics: Christmas, Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners

Last updated Feb 11, 2005


Diana's Desserts view detail comment email this

San Francisco native Diana Woodall, now a resident of Sonoma, California, credits her Bay Area background with her passion for food. The site features recipes for cakes, tortes, pies, tarts, cookies, breads, pastries, cheesecakes, and candies, as well as international and holiday dessert recipes. Also includes photos, a discussion forum, baking tips, and a table of equivalent measures and weights and oven temperatures equivalents. Searchable.
http://www.dianasdesserts.com
Topics: Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Recipes & Food Preparation, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners

Last updated Nov 4, 2004


Gingerbread Heaven view detail comment email this

A collection of links to sites about making gingerbread cookies and cakes, gingerbread houses, and related crafts. Includes sites with photos, recipes, and instructions for making gingerbread and faux gingerbread houses made from materials such as cardboard, graham crackers, and sugar cubes.
http://www.creativeladiesministry.com/gingerbread.html
Topics: Christmas, Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners

Last updated Nov 21, 2005


Godiva Chocolatier: Recipes view detail comment email this

Includes recipes for breads, brownies, cakes and tortes, cheesecake, cookies, drinks, frozen desserts, mousses, and more. The about page has some chocolate trivia and terminology.
http://www.godiva.com/recipes/
Topics: Beverages, Herbs, Spices, Condiments, and Flavorings, Recipes & Food Preparation, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners

Last updated Feb 22, 2009


Joyofbaking.com view detail comment email this

Recipes of course, but this site also provides hows and whys of home baking, notes on ingredients, measurement conversions, techniques, and inspiring photos of pies, tarts, cakes, tortes, cookies, and breakfast treats. There are videos about baking a few standards--biscotti, scones, chocolate chip cookies, and a coffee cake--with variations. Caterer and baking teacher Stephanie Jaworski carefully notes sources when she has adapted recipes, and includes a bibliography.
http://www.joyofbaking.com/
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners

Last updated Nov 20, 2002


King Arthur Flour Company: Recipes view detail comment email this

A collection of recipes featuring the use of wheat flour. Provides recipes for breads, cookies, cakes, muffins, biscuits, and more. Searchable and browsable. From the King Arthur Flour Company.
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes2008/
Topics: Beans, Grains, Nuts, & Seeds, Recipes & Food Preparation, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners

Last updated Mar 19, 2009


Six Persimmon Recipes view detail comment email this

Recipes for making cookies, a cake, pudding, and chutney using persimmons. Also includes a link to three ways of preserving persimmons (freezer jam, frozen, and dried). From a site that celebrates locally grown produce.
http://www.seasonalchef.com/persimmonrecipes.htm
Topics: Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners

Last updated Aug 23, 2005




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