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Although I’m now based out of Portland, OR, I started this blog when I was living in Denver, CO. Before I moved to Denver, high-altitude...

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I was looking through my Recipe Index the other day and realized I had done something unforgivable for a baking blog — I was missing a...

I was especially excited to adapt this recipe for high altitude because I love bananas. I’m pretty sure I eat one everyday. I’m an...

So I spent this last rainy Saturday experimenting with different temperatures at which to bake the Hummingbird Bakery’s recipe for Black Bottom cupcakes:  ...

A normal person would have just accepted the fact that the recipe for Hummingbird Bakery’s red velvet cupcakes worked perfectly fine at high-altitudes without...

Red velvet, red velvet, why did you not fail as miserably as your vanilla and chocolate peers? In fact, why did you excel at...

Not gonna lie. My previous discovery — that chocolate cupcakes needed less baking powder than vanilla cupcakes at high altitude, proving my hypothesis completely...

Not gonna lie — I was pretty nervous about adapting this particular recipe for a couple of reasons. Aside from my reluctant dislike for...

Last post, I came really close to cracking the recipe. By reducing the amount of baking powder by a half teaspoon, I was able...

Interestingly enough, the first time I ever made cheesecake was also for another Thanksgiving dinner during my senior year of college. My parents, neither...

So, for all you non-believers — high-altitude really is a game changer when it comes to baking. Recall my “control” experiment from the previous...