Tips: Dessert and Baking Tips

• To keep my brown sugar soft, I purchase brown sugar in the plastic bags (not the boxed version). After opening, I place the brown sugar in the orginal plastic bag inside an appropriately sized ziploc bag. Easy to store and always stays soft. Mary Beth, Baltimore, MD ^new (Added: 16-Jul-2004)

• Use a sandwich bag when buttering a dish or making rice crispy treats and the mess won't stick on your hands! Courtney, Palm Springs ^new (Added: 16-Oct-2004)

• When making piecrust or tart shells, freeze the pie dough before filling and it will be more tender. Margaret, Ont. Canada ^new (Added: 16-Oct-2004)

• When decorating cakes, put icing into a piece of saran wrap, wrap and twist the ends together. Cut one end off and insert into bag to pipe. This saves on clean up and mess. Also handy for when using several icing colors and you have only one piping bag!You can also stripe your plastic wrap and add different colors to your icing! Michelle Anglin-Lanett,AL ^new (Added: 17-Jul-2005)

• I Used to fight the hardened brown suger problem. I now store my brown sugar in large jam or pickle jars that have been washed through the dishwasher (for sterilization). Soft sugar everytime! Doris, Ottawa-Canada ^new (Added: 17-Oct-2003)

• No mess buttered bowls! Instead of dealing with greasy fingers or wasting wax or paper towels, next time you finish a stick of butter -- don’t throw the paper away. Instead, fold in half and store in a zip lock bag in the fridge. Next time you need to prepare a buttered bowl or pan, use the buttered paper. Tammy, Dallas, TX ^new (Added: 18-Mar-2005)

• When cutting bar cookies or cakes, use a plastic knife with serrated edge to get very smooth edges. Ann Throneberry, Shelbyville, TN ^new (Added: 18-May-2004)

• Reduce your sugar by 1/4. Turn your oven down by 1/4 degree also. Bake cookies for the amount of time on recipe, they are a bit soft but once cooled you have a wonderful chewy cookie. Sharon DuBois ^new (Added: 18-Sep-2004)

• If you hate to throw out cookies just because they have gotten a little hard, place them in a ziplock sandwich bag with a piece of bread overnight. The next day you'll have fresh, soft cookies again. Tammy, Dallas, TX ^new (Added: 19-Mar-2005)

• When decorating a fruit salad bowl, use the top of a pineapple lightly dusted with confectioner's sugar, and put on top. It looks pretty and makes use of the pineapple top. Gerry , London ^new (Added: 2-Sep-2005)

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Tips: Dessert and Baking Tips

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