Baking Basics

[jeff]

Baking is a very precise style of cooking. There's so such thing as guessing or simply winging it.
Sure you could make cookies or a cake by tossing stuff together but it will never be as fluffy, tender, or even rise the way it should if it was done the right way.

First things first when baking.

Buy a food scale! this is a must! Everything should be weighed.


Dry is dry
Wet is wet

However, there's an exception to the rule.

Sugar.

In almost all baking recipes, it is a WET ingredient. yes WET. you would add it to the eggs and butter, it is labeled a wet ingredient because it's able to dissolves into fluids such as eggs and fats.

Also there's a thing call the creaming method, but that's another thread.

All dry ingredients should be weighed and sifted. then mixed together.
All wet ingredients should be weighed or measured them mixed.

Then both items wet and dry should be mixed together.

That's the baking basics, simple, yet most people skip them.