Baking Basics

Corn bread is a great addition to any holiday or family meal. This sweet and moist cornbread acts as a great side to any homestyle meal.

When you are baking cookies or cakes, it would be nice if you only had to concentrate on the baking, wouldn't it? Instead, you spend a lot of time measuring, checking your ingredients, reading...

We love our cornbread and most southerners learn to cook this daily staple early on! This isn't your restaurant cake-like sweet cornbread ! Try this with your next supper and I think you'll...

So you want to make a cake, but you don't have anything but a box of mix? No problem. I always have eggs or oil on hand, but never both!

If you love pumpkin pie, then you have to try pumpkin pie cake with cream cheese frosting. This recipe is pretty simple to prepare and will take about an hour to complete. Once it is complete you...

Sugar cookies make a great snack anytime. This recipe is easy to make. You can even freeze these cookies for later use.

Cookie mixes are a great way to give the gift of tasty treats without piling more ready-made desserts into a pantry already filled with holiday goodies. Cookie mixes can be baked into delicious...

Chex Mix is a true product of mid-20th century American culture. The advent of the television as well as a new way of marketing to the American housewife helped create this salty treat.

You can use baking mixes as a base for everything from pancakes to cupcakes. If you are used to buying prepared baking mixes, like bisquick, it would be more economical to make it yourself at...

There are so many different ways to make muffins. You can make them from scratch or purchase a mix. Stores sell muffin mixes that only ask you to add water and oil. You don't, however, need to...

If you're like me, you've had lots of failures when trying to make a sourdough starter, and keeping it alive and active. Well, I finally found success, and it took finding out about a fairly well...

When you are working with a cake mix, it is similar to working with a blank canvas. You can spice up the flavor and texture in many different ways. One example of how to do this is to add coconut....

This cake is to die for! I can never get enough.

You can take a store bought cake mix and make it taste like it was made from scratch. This recipe is great for the folks who are not creative bakers. As a matter of fact, the recipe is just as...

To finish off these Peanut Butter Cookies you can mix in chocolate chips, peanut butter chips or melt some chocolate and dip an end or the whole cookie. This recipe makes about 36 Cookies.

Don't you hate it when you run out of baking mix halfway through making biscuits? Or realize you don't have enough to make those pancakes you've been craving? Maybe you just don't want to buy that...

Fall means pumpkin time! Pumpkin pie, pumpkin roll, and pumpkin cookies are my favorites. Here is a very easy semi homemade pumpkin cookie recipe.

I don't like complicated anything. Making things simple is not stupid - it's downright smart! Simple makes it quick, easy and usually cheaper, too! This muffin mix is easy to make, easy to add...

Oatmeal has always been a favorite of mine. Now it's everyone's heart smart start for the day. Here is a very versatile, easy oatmeal mix for starting pancakes, muffins, cookies and desserts....

How to cornbread from scratch.

The price of biscuit mix makes it worth it to make your own. Making it yourself also assures the freshness of the mix.

This is a great recipe for making a ton of homemade biscuit mix. You can cut it in half if it's too much for you to use in a six month period.

Baking egg free is easier than you think! You may double this recipe (in two separate batches) for a double layer birthday cake that works great. This cake will serve 12.

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A regular cake becomes a work of art when baked in a Bundt pan. The best thing about Bundt cakes is that you don't have to alter your favorite cake recipe to make one. You can use a standard boxed...