• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Baked logo

  • Winter
  • Recipes
  • About
  • Work With Us
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Email
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Winter
  • Recipes
  • About
  • Work With Us
×

Baked » Recipes

Kitchen Basics

A collection of staple recipes every home cook and baker should know. Make your own standard must-haves rather than buying them!

Make your own frostings, fillings, and toppings for sweet desserts: try Cream Cheese Frosting, Easy Vanilla Frosting (American buttercream) or Vegan Vanilla Buttercream, and homemade Lemon Curd.

For homemade pastry, try an all-butter Basic Pie Crust or Vegan Pie Dough, and Sweet Shortcrust Pastry (Pâte Sucrée). Try Vanilla Sugar as a sanding sugar.

To make your own additions for many recipes, try Homemade Pumpkin Puree, How to Roast Garlic, and spice things up with Homemade Za'atar.

Halloween decorated cookies.

Royal Icing Without Meringue Powder

Oct 28, 2022 · Leave a Comment

Two jars of orange curd on plates with slices of oranges nearby.

Orange Curd

Oct 18, 2022 · Leave a Comment

Shortcrust pastry after pre-baking.

Sweet Shortcrust Pastry (Pâte Sucrée)

Jun 10, 2022 · 6 Comments

Overhead image of a pile of walnut chocolate chip cookies.

Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies

Jun 2, 2022 · Leave a Comment

Slice of walnut chocolate banana bread on a black cooling wrack with a bread knife.

Easiest Vegan Banana Bread

May 31, 2022 · 5 Comments

A spoonful of curd.

Lemon Curd

May 31, 2022 · Leave a Comment

A woman in a blue and white dress holding a bottle of strawberry ginger simple syrup.

Strawberry Simple Syrup with Ginger

May 13, 2022 · 1 Comment

Four pieces of bread, stacked, on a cooling rack.

Sourdough Focaccia

Apr 28, 2022 · 39 Comments

A jar of small-batch strawberry jam on a marble board alongside a vintage pearl-handled spreader, and a stack of sliced marble rye bread.

Small-Batch Strawberry Jam With Bay Leaves

Apr 28, 2022 · Leave a Comment

Close up of Chantilly cream.

Chantilly Cream

Apr 9, 2022 · Leave a Comment

A small jar of vanilla sugar on a small marble board with whole vanilla beans laying alongside the jar.

How To Make (& Use!) Vanilla Sugar With Vanilla Bean

Jan 6, 2022 · 2 Comments

A glass loaf tin of roasted garlic cloves covered in oil for a post called How To Roast Garlic..

How To Roast Garlic (7 Ways, With Or Without An Oven)

Oct 14, 2021 · 2 Comments

A food processor with homemade pumpkin purée inside.

How To Make Homemade Pumpkin Purée

Oct 6, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Close up of a buttercream frosted cupcake with small rainbow sprinkles.

Easy Vanilla Frosting (American Buttercream)

Sep 15, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Jar of za'atar with a label.

Homemade Za’atar

Mar 8, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Close up of vegan buttercream.

Vegan Vanilla Buttercream

Mar 5, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Jackfruit carnitas with avocado and pickled onions.

Sourdough Tortillas

Jan 28, 2021 · 2 Comments

Sandwich bread on a cutting board with a knife.

Basic Sourdough Pan Loaf

Jan 25, 2021 · 44 Comments

A loaf of sourdough bread, sliced, overhead shot.

100% Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread

Jan 22, 2021 · 24 Comments

Three sourdough boules on a light background.

How to Shape Sourdough Boules

Jan 22, 2021 · 2 Comments

A loaf of sourdough bread on a cooling rack.

Troubleshooting Sourdough Bread

Jan 21, 2021 · 8 Comments

A close up of a seedy sourdough bread.

How To Stretch And Fold Sourdough

Jan 19, 2021 · 3 Comments

Mincemeat in a deep bowl.

Homemade Mincemeat

Dec 7, 2020 · Leave a Comment

A vanilla cupcake topped with buttercream and rosemary trees on a small platter.

The Best Vanilla Cupcakes

Nov 26, 2020 · Leave a Comment

How To Make Apple Pie Spice

Oct 23, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Close up of cream cheese frosting with vanilla specks.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Oct 15, 2020 · Leave a Comment

A metal baking tray of spicy roasted pumpkin seeds with parchment paper underneath and a spoon nearby.

Spicy Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Oct 4, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Spice mix in a small glass jar with a spoon in it, top down view.

Cardamom Pumpkin Pie Spice and 20 Ways to Use It

Sep 24, 2020 · 1 Comment

A jar of homemade vanilla syrup on a white plate in front of a window.

Homemade Vanilla Syrup

Aug 6, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Finished chia egg in a glass jar with a measuring spoon.

Chia Egg Substitute

Jul 7, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Overhead shot of one half of a baked pie.

Vegan Pie Dough

May 20, 2020 · Leave a Comment

A jar of hibiscus syrup sitting on a counter with other cocktail ingredients in the background.

Hibiscus Simple Syrup

May 13, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Fully mixed flax egg substitute.

Flax Egg Substitute

May 7, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Overhead shot of a small glass bowl of whole egg mayonnaise.

Whole Egg Mayonnaise

Apr 18, 2020 · 6 Comments

Coconut whipped cream swirls filling the frame.

How to Make Coconut Whipped Cream

Apr 10, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Unbaked all-butter pie crust.

All-Butter Pie Crust

Oct 12, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Overhead shot of bowls of ingredients for making granola

How to Make Granola with Whatever is in Your Pantry

Apr 17, 2018 · 5 Comments

Primary Sidebar

Winter recipes in large text over a picture of cookies.

About Baked

Baked is a collaborative project brought to you by five Canadian women food bloggers. Our mission is to bring accessible baking recipes into your home kitchen with beautiful photography, lots of step-by-step images, and thorough, easy-to-read information. At Baked, there's something for everyone!
Join Our Mailing List
Get our recipes & baking tips direct to your inbox each week!

Get Baking!

A pile of English muffins in a shallow tray.

Sourdough English Muffins

A jar of active sourdough starter.

How to Make Sourdough Starter From Scratch

Stack of square waffles topped with strawberries.

Our Favourite Sourdough Discard Recipes

Sourdough crackers topped with Za'atar.

Sourdough Crackers with Discard

Hi, I'm Skylar! This is a fake profile talking about how I switched to a paleo diet and it helped my eczema and I grew 4". Trust me, I'm an online doctor.

More about me →

Popular

  • 15 cookies lined up in rows.
    Drop Sugar Cookies
  • Several soft sugar cookies topped with frosting.
    Vegan Pumpkin Cookies
  • Halloween-themed cookies on a plate with gourds.
    Halloween Sugar Cookies
  • Halloween decorated cookies.
    Royal Icing Without Meringue Powder

You can duplicate your homepage's trending recipes section in the sidebar to reinforce the internal linking.

We no longer recommend using a search bar, newsletter form or category drop-down menu in the sidebar. See the Modern Sidebar post for details.

If the block editor is not narrower than usual, simply save the page and refresh it.

Footer

Featured In

© 2022 Baked The Blog. This site uses affiliate links.

Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

Copyright© 2025