Many people neglect the most important part in making a pizza: baking. Several things like the dough and the quality of the ingredients are important but any good cook knows that the most crucial part is the baking. It is during this step that we distinguish the good from the perfect pizza. What is a pizza peel?…
Best Pizza Stone
Traditionally, pizza is cooked over a wood fire or over charcoal in a stone oven. This is what gives it its legendary texture, soft on the inside and crisp on the outside. To obtain the same result at home with an oven or a barbecue, the use of a pizza stone also called a baking stone is necessary. Thanks to…
Banana Double Chocolate Muffins Recipe
Remember my Double Chocolate Nutella Muffins or my Jumbo Blueberry Muffins? I love baking muffins, probably even more than I love eating them. Baking is science, everyone knows that – add the right amount of ingredients, bake them at a specific temperature and congratulations, you’re a baker. But somehow, when I’m baking muffins, I feel like…
Jumbo Blueberry Muffins Recipe
I love muffins in all sizes and flavors, it’s no secret. Even if my favorite muffins will always be chocolate muffins, because I am a complete chocoholic, I am not a snob. I eat all kind of muffins. Maybe too much sometimes. On this lazy Sunday evening I had to bake something – after a…
Double Chocolate Nutella Muffins Recipe
Muffins, especially chocolate muffins will always be my first love and I will always have a soft spot for them. Chocolate muffins are the first thing I ever baked. They are so easy to make and you can basically add everything you want in them. Everything, I’m not joking. Did you know that you can…
How to Make a Strawberry Cheesecake
In the last couple of weeks I’ve been pretty busy doing absolutely nothing. So when I started to feel guilty enough, I decided that baking a cheesecake from scratch was a good punishment for my lazy behavior. Baking a cheesecake is super tricky, it can only go two ways – complete failure or absolute perfection….
Apple Crumble Pie Recipe
I made this pie dough yesterday and was planning on baking a blueberry pie today. But since yesterday I couldn’t help myself but bake a batch of blueberry muffins, I decided I just couldn’t bake a blueberry pie today, so I just went to the store and buy some Lady Pink apples. This is the…
Chocolate Marble Cake Recipe
The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century Germany. Marble cakes made their way to America with German immigrants before the Civil War. Originally the cakes were marbled with molasses and spices. One of the first recorded recipes for marble cake appears in an American cookbook called Aunt…
Easy Homemade Soft Pretzels Recipe
I’ve never been a fan of pretzels when I was a child. I could barely eat one and I couldn’t understand how anyone could like something so boring – it was practically bread. With some salt. And just a bit of sesame – there was never enough sesame. So years have passed and while I…
Nutella Chocolate Brownies Recipe
If you love chocolate as much as I do, or as much as the rest of the world does, you will love these fudgy Nutella chocolate brownies! They’re really easy to make, you don’t need anything that you probably don’t already have in your kitchen and there’s not much of a mess to clean up…