Mix up this baking essential — or a good substitute — in minutes. Stacey Ballis is a novelist, cookbook author, and food writer with 20 years of experience. She has authored a cookbook called "Big ...

You open your pantry and don’t see that jar of cream of tartar that you swore you bought. It happens to the best of us. Making substitutes in baked goods can be a daunting task, but when you’re ...

Almost every cook has faced this scenario: You're following a recipe that requires baking powder but you only have baking soda. What do you do? Can you substitute? Or this one: You haven't baked for a ...

Imagine yourself elbow-deep assembling a favorite baked good only to find you're fresh out of one essential ingredient for the recipe at hand. When it comes to baking, next to flour, sugar, eggs, and ...

You only need two ingredients to make this baking staple. It happens to the best of us. You're at the grocery store buying ingredients for a baked good recipe, and you assume you have all the staples.