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Tips: Dessert and Baking Tips

  • The best and fastest way to cool sauces ad other liquids, especially when making desserts, is to place the container holding the hot sauce in another, larger container that is partially filled with ice and water. Stir the sauce frequently to accelerate cooling time. FabulousFoods.com new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)
  • To avoid breaking and crumbling, cool bar cookies and cakes completely before cutting. FabulousFoods.com new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)
  • When shelling pecans, if you want them to come out whole, pour some boiling water over the pecans and let them sit for thirty minutes before cracking. FabulousFoods.com new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)
  • A cake decorator's secret for getting really flat tops on cakes is to wet a terry cloth towel and wrap it around the outside of the cake pan (secure with safety pin). The moisture from the towel acts like a smal bain Marie and makes the cake cook more evenly. FabulousFoods.com new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)
  • Fortune cookies make a fun lunchbox addition for kids of all ages. FabulousFoods.com new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)
  • Do you have fruit in your kitchen that's ripening quicker than you can eat it? Puree it and use in smoothies or as a topping for ice cream, pancakes or waffles. You can also freeze the purreed fruit in a plastic freezer zipper bag and use it later on. FabulousFoods.com new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)
  • If you're on the go each morning, freeze muffins and reheat them in the AM for a quick sweet breakfast. Zeeze, Houston, TX new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)
  • Instead of greasing or oiling pans for baking, use parchment paper. Your food won't stick, there's no mess and no unwanted fat or calories. FabulousFoods.com new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)
  • All out of unsweetened baking chocolate? Substitute 3 tablespoons cocoa powder mixed with 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or butter instead. FabulousFoods.com new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)
  • Use a stencil or even a paper cutout doily to quickly decorate cakes and cookies. Simply put stencil on baked goods and sift powdered sugar or cocoa powder over. Carefully remove stencil and you'll have a beautiful design left. FabulousFoods.com new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

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