Baking Recipes

Baking Recipes - Cookies, Bread, Candy, Cobbler and Dessert

Baking is a method of cooking food that uses prolonged dry heat, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread but many other types of foods are baked.Heat is gradually transferred "from the surface of cakes, cookies, and breads to their centre. As heat travels through it transforms batters and doughs into baked goods with a firm dry crust and a softer centre"..

Baking is a method of cooking food that uses prolonged dry heat, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread but many other types of foods are baked. Heat is gradually transferred "from the surface of cakes, cookies, and breads to their centre. As heat travels through it transforms batters and doughs into baked goods with a firm dry crust and a softer centre". Baking can be combined with grilling to produce a hybrid barbecue variant by using both methods simultaneously, or one after the other. Baking is related to barbecuing because the concept of the masonry oven is similar to that of a smoke pit.

Baking chocolate, also referred to as bitter chocolate, cooking chocolate and unsweetened chocolate, is a type of chocolate that is prepared or manufactured for baking.

Biscuit – a term used for a variety of baked, commonly flour-based food products.[1] The term is applied to two distinct products in North America and the United Kingdom,[2] and is also distinguished from U.S. versions in the Commonwealth of Nations and Europe.

Ground biscuit

Bread – a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking.[3]

See also: List of breads, List of brand name breads, and List of quick breads

Bagel – a bread product originating in Poland, traditionally shaped by hand into the form of a ring from yeasted wheat dough, roughly hand-sized, which is first boiled for a short time in water and then baked.

Bread roll – a small, often round loaf of bread[4][5] served as a meal accompaniment (eaten plain or with butter)

See also: List of bread rolls

Flatbread –

Brownie – a flat, baked dessert square that was developed in the United States at the end of the 19th century[6] and popularized in both the U.S. and Canada during the first half of the 20th century

Cake – a form of sweet dessert that is typically baked. In its oldest forms, cakes were modifications of breads but now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate.

See also: List of cakes

Casserole – a large, deep dish used both in the oven and as a serving vessel. The word is also used for the food cooked and served in such a vessel, with the cookware itself called a casserole dish or casserole pan.

See also: List of casserole dishes

Baked pasta casserole dishes

Baked ziti

Lasagne

Macaroni and cheese

Macaroni casserole

Macaroni pie

Pastitsio

Cookie – a small, flat, sweet, baked good, usually containing flour, eggs, sugar, and either butter, cooking oil or another oil or fat.

See also: List of cookies

Cracker – typically made from flour, flavorings or seasonings such as salt, herbs, seeds, and cheese may be added to the dough or sprinkled on top before baking.

See also: List of crackers

Custard – a variety of culinary preparations based on a cooked mixture of milk or cream and egg yolk. Depending on how much egg or thickener is used, custard may vary in consistency.

See also: List of custard desserts

Milk-based products

Baked milk – can be prepared by leaving a jug of boiled milk in an oven for a day or for a night until it is coated with a brown crust

Pastry –

Pie – a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients.

Pizza – n

Calzone –

Tart – a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry

Twice-baked foods – foods that are baked twice in their preparation

Viennoiserie – baked goods made from a yeast-leavened dough in a manner similar to bread