Sweet Success: 10 Tips For Baking the Perfect Macaron


Updated 02/09/12 6:01 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Baking Tips For French Macarons

With their vibrant colors and lacy frills, dainty, crisp-crusted French macarons are the perfect Valentine's Day baking project. But these lovely little delicacies are temperamental enough to stump even the most accomplished chefs. Even if you follow a detailed recipe down to the letter, a batch of macarons can go very wrong very quickly. Thanks to humidity, an unreliable oven temperature gauge, Read more

Holiday Gifts For the Next-Level Baker


Updated 12/07/11 6:25 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Best Gifts For Baking

For the advanced baker in your life, forget about gifting baking essentials. After all, your friends well-schooled in pastry probably already have a stocked kitchen and are very particular about the products they bake with. Instead, opt for one of these seven ideas to help them take their baking to the next level. If you're lucky, you'll get to enjoy the souffles, chocolates, and baguettes of Read more

Experiment With These 6 Gluten-Free Baking Brands


Posted by Heather Dale · 3 comments

My Best Gluten-Free Baking Brands

For those of you who have decided to go gluten-free for health reasons, or for those of you who have celiac disease or a sensitivity to gluten, I'm sure you'll agree with me when I say it's not always easy to go cold turkey on removing baked goods from your life. But, if you're like me and get really sick when you eat gluten, staying away from it is actually quite easy. I can still visit bakeries Read more

SF Food Wars: Pie Bakeoff


Updated 08/02/10 11:18 AM · Posted by Yum Community · 2 comments

Pictures From SF Food Wars Pie Competition

BellaSugar attended a pie competition in San Francisco. She was kind enough to share her photos of the event in the Savory Sights group in the YumSugar Community. On Sunday, I went to Pie Or Die, a pie bakeoff at the SF Food Wars. Much pie was consumed, to the extent that I think I'm still in a mild sugar coma. Anyway! Here are some pictures. Have you checked out a cool food event? Upload your Read more