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How to Make Our Favorite Toads in a HoleBy Dennis Weaver and Alice Wach Traditional toads in a hole are sausages baked in a Yorkshire pudding. We made them easier and quicker with a mix. You can have your toads in the oven in minutes–as fast as you ca..

How to Make Toads in a Hole for TwoBy Dennis Weaver and Alice Wach This is a smaller recipe for toads in a hole made with two sausages and a batter made with two eggs. It’s about right as the main dish for two people. The meat to batter ratio is the s..

7 Facts About Yeast that Will Make You a Better Baker By Dennis Weaver Hot water or water with too much chlorine or salt will kill yeast. You might try bottled water from the store. Make sure your w..

Five Things You Can Do to Make Your Baking Better By Dennis Weaver and Alice WachOver the years, we’ve found ways to make our baked goods taste better. We wanted to share our list with you, so you can make your family and f..

Make This Super Easy Artisan Bread with Your Bread Machine By Dennis Weaver Artisan breads can be long, complicated affairs. This one isn’t! And you can make it with this Italian Country Bre..

How to Bake the Perfect Cheesecake By Dennis Weaver Slow-baking, jiggle testing, careful cooling, adding structure, and 150°F — these are just a few principles to making the perfect cheesecake. Along with k..

How to Make Homemade Burger Buns with a Mix By Dennis Weaver As Dennis likes to say, “the buns make the burger,” and it’s true. I’m sure we can all remember eating a burger fresh off the grill and the bun just couldn’t handle the heat and fell apa..

Got Fruit? Fabulous Dessert Recipes for Your Summer Fruits By Dennis Weaver and Alice Wach I love fresh fruit. I love to eat it. I love to bake with it. One of my favorite things to do growing..

How to Make the Very Best Sugar Cookies By Dennis Weaver Everyone loves sugar cookies, especially closer to the holidays. But sugar cookies don’t always turn out right. We’ve compiled this list of tips and ..

What’s the Proper Way to Prepare a Baking Pan? By Dennis Weaver When a recipe tells you to place the batter or dough into a prepared baking sheet, we all know that the recipe is threatening to stick to the ..

How to Bake Perfect, Uniform Cookies by Dennis Weaver I once heard the saying that cookies are the universal communication of love. You have family coming over? Bake some cookies. You have a struggling friend? Bring over some cookies. You want to welco..

The Secrets to Baking Almost Everything Perfectly by Dennis Weaver Are my breads, cookies, or cakes ready to come out of the oven? The ability to tell when products are baked properly seems to cause ..