Your oven plays an invaluable role in the baking process but is often taken for granted. You can make your baked goods even better by fully understanding your oven. These tips and tricks can help. Do…
Hand-in-Hand: What Creative Writing Can Teach Us about Baking
Just as creative writing is an expression of artistry, so too is baking. When we enter the kitchen, we put our imaginations to work. We call upon our passion and ingenuity. We want to engage our…
October Nightmares: How to Avoid Scary Baked Goods
Halloween is right around the corner, and that means ghosts and ghouls are upon us. Throw some werewolves and zombies in the mix, and this is the stuff of nightmares. But as bakers, we can experience…
Keep it Simple Series: Pound Cake
Some of our past blogs have focused on outside-the-box baked goods, such as those made with exotic fruits. But sometimes it’s good to go back to the baking basics — items like chocolate cupcakes, blueberry muffins…
We Love Summer Series: Summer Camp-Inspired Baked Goods
With summer in the rearview mirror, it’s a good time to celebrate that iconic experience known as summer camp. Because where else can you practice archery, ride a zip line, sing around a campfire, and enjoy…
Baking for the Generations Series: Millennials
There has been study after published study about what the generation known as millennials want. Perhaps this is because they are somewhat difficult to pin down — is it true that they don’t want to work…
Fifteen Minutes of Fame Series: Clean Label
Just as cheese puffs and cereals with fluorescent colors aren’t found in nature, neither are some of our go-to baking ingredients (Case in point: Does food coloring grow on trees? How about margarine?) Consumers, and by…
Baking for the Generations: Generation X
They’re not Baby Boomers, and they’re not Millennials. As a result, they don’t always get the attention they deserve, but they are unique. They may have been latchkey kids and played with Ataris. They probably watched…
Fifteen Minutes of Fame Series: Tropical-Inspired Baked Goods
Aloha, fellow bakers! In this week’s blog, we examine one of the latest trends in baking, and right now tropical-inspired baked goods are enjoying their 15 minutes of fame. So whether you’ve got an upcoming potluck…
Keep it Simple Series: Blueberry Muffins
Here at Welcome Home Brands, we celebrate both outside-the-box baked goods (tangy currants as a go-to fruit and/or goat cheese frosting) as well as the staples of baking (hello, blueberry muffins). Since the U.S. Department of…