More Cake Baking Tips

To Make a Cake More Moist & Tender try some of these tweaks: substitute egg yolk (fat) and/or potato starch (loosens the crumb) for 10% of the flour use milk instead of water (increases sugar slightly) add additional leavening (helps with rising) beat the egg white and yolks separately (helps with rising) use oil instead […] Read more »

Pie Class Photos

Now that you’ve done all your reading. Let’s take a look at how I actually go about making pie crusts. Rather than try to be heard over the 7 children that were in and out of our RV while I baked this pie, we just took lots of photos. First, get out all of the […] Read more »

Pie Class Videos

There are just two short videos for this class. The first video shows me “cutting in the fat”. I use my hands, but you can also do this with a food processor or pastry blender. The second video shows me rolling out a pie crust. Cutting in the Fat By the way, please excuse the […] Read more »

Easy Peasy Gluten Free Pie Crust

Easy Peasy Gluten Free Pie Crust (makes one double crust pie, or two single-crust pies) INGREDIENTS: 150 grams cornstarch 150 grams tapioca starch 100 grams brown rice flour 8 grams salt 4 grams xanthan gum 225 grams shortening 125 grams ice-cold water INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Measure out all of your ingredients before you start and chill […] Read more »

How To Make Smooth Bagels

One of the struggles with making homemade bagels is getting the surface of the bagel to be smooth. Today I made smooth bagels so I wanted to sit down and take a few notes on what I did while it’s all fresh in my memory. 1. Use weight measurements Until this morning I’d been using […] Read more »

Gluten Free Bread 101 transcript

Good morning. This is Mary Frances at Gluten Free Cooking School and today I’m going to teach you how to make my Finally Really Good Sandwich Bread recipe. This is a bread recipe that I developed several years ago. It took three or four years to get it just right and we make it every […] Read more »