Baking Terms
Heating a solid product to become a liquid.
Melting
This ingredient binds everything together and is the base for most baked goods.
Flour
This tool is used for mixing evenly, fluffing/adding air into ingredients or batter.
Whisk
This treat is very popular and comes in many different flavours and textures. They are most commonly round.
Cookie
What treat is most commonly made with cream cheese set in a crust of cookie crumbs?
Cheescake
A mixture of dry and liquid ingredients such as eggs, flour, and milk or water. Similar to dough but it has a much thinner consistency and cannot be kneaded.
Batter
This ingredient sweetens, hold moisture and helps keep the treat soft.
Sugar
This tool is used to combine ingredients before baking.
Mixing bowl
This treat is baked in pans of many shapes and sizes, needs to rise and if often decorated in for special occasions.
Cake
During the holidays this cookie is most commonly shaped as a little person with candy for eyes and accessories.
Gingerbread
Mixing butter or shortening into the flour using a knife or a pastry cutter until they are well mixed. This process creates a flaky texture in pies, pastries, and cookies.
Cut in/cut together
This ingredient helps muffins, cookies and cakes rise and turn out fluffy instead of hard or dense.
This tool is used for mixing butter into flour to make things like pie crust or biscuits.
Pastry Cutter
This treat can be sweet or savory and the possibilities for inclusions are endless. These can be cut into any shape you desire but are most commonly seen as a roud-ish triangle.
Scone
What famous pastry is named after its crescent shape?
Croissant
To work dough (usually for bread) by massaging, stretching, pulling and folding it.
Knead
This ingredient enhances flavour and makes your treat smell amazing while baking.
Vanilla
This tool is used for wet or dry ingredients and is needed to insure proper amounts are used.
Measuring Cup
This treat most commonly includes some type of fruit in a crust, almost always round in shape.
Pie
What are the 3 flavours used in 'Neapolitan' treats? Often comes in striped layers of cake or ice-cream.
Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry
Turning on the oven/pan beforehand to let it come to the desired temperature before using.
Pre-Heating
This ingredient acts like a glue and holds your treat together as well as adding protein.
Egg
This tool is used to line baking sheets to prevent sticking and make cleanup much easier.
Parchment Paper
This treat is full of chocolate, has a fudgey texture and is baked in a pan before being cut into squares to share.
Brownie
What flavour is devil's food cake ?
Chocolate