To make the best chocolate chip cookies, use a dark chocolate with between 60% to 70% cacao from fèves or a high-quality baking bar chopped into smaller pieces. Read the post to learn why I concluded that this is the best chocolate for chocolate chip cookies, complete with deep-dives into how different chocolate flavors and shapes can affect the flavor, texture, and appearance of chocolate chip cookies!
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Homemade Vanilla Extract
Looking for a quick and easy homemade present for the baker in your life? Make them some vanilla extract! This easy homemade vanilla extract recipe requires just TWO ingredients: vanilla bean pods and vodka! Grab the recipe and learn the best tips for making your own vanilla in the blog post.
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Pumpkin Pie Spice Recipe + A Round Up Of My Best Pumpkin Recipes
This quick and easy pumpkin pie spice recipe uses spices that are already in your pantry (like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves) to make pumpkin spice! Read the post for tips and tricks on how to customize the pumpkin pie spice to suit your tastes, and how much pumpkin pie spice to use for pumpkin pie.
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Small Batch Chocolate Cupcake Recipe (Makes Just One Cupcake!)
This small batch chocolate cupcake recipe makes just ONE soft and moist chocolate cupcake, topped with an easy buttercream frosting that requires no stand mixer! The recipe instructs you to make a dry cake mix that you can keep indefinitely and make individual cupcakes from when you have a cupcake craving. Read the blog post for more tips and tricks for this small batch recipe!
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Buttermilk Substitutes
A round up and taste test of the best buttermilk substitutes you can use in baking recipes, including: powdered buttermilk, milk + lemon or vinegar, and sour cream or yogurt + water. Learn how to make these buttermilk substitutes in the blog post!
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The Best Brownie Box Mix
This blog post will tell you literally everything you ever wanted to know about brownie box mix. I did taste tests to find the best brownie box mix (spoiler alert: it was a toss up between Ghirardelli and Duncan Hines brownie box mix). From there, I sampled different Ghirardelli brownie box mixes to find the best flavor/variety, tried popular brownie box mix hacks to see if they really did improve the brownies (another spoiler alert because omg, they did), and even dropped some controversial hot takes about brownie box mixes.
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