This white powder makes baked goods rise and is often paired with an acid like buttermilk.
What is baking soda?
This French term means “to prepare all ingredients before starting to cook.”
What is mise en place?
This handheld tool is used to scrape bowls and fold batter.
What is a rubber scraper?
This type of bread is made without yeast and rises from baking soda or powder.
What is a quick bread?
A cake with equal parts butter, sugar, eggs, and flour is called this. (Hint: think about measurements)
What is pound cake?
This protein in wheat flour gives bread its structure and chewiness.
What is gluten?
When you cream butter and sugar together, you are incorporating this.
What is air?
This small sieve is used to remove lumps from dry ingredients like flour.
What is a sifter?
This sweet yeast dough is rolled with cinnamon sugar and baked in a spiral shape.
What is a cinnamon roll?
The name for frosting swirls used commonly in cake and cupcake decorating.
What are rosettes?
This natural sugar is found in fruit and honey.
What is fructose
This mixing method gently folds beaten egg whites into a batter to avoid deflating air.
What is folding?
This tool is the predecessor to the peeler, and is used for small cutting jobs.
What is a paring knife?
It's alive! This creature is used in bread-making.
What is (sourdough) starter?
This style of pastry includes items like croissants and Danish, made with layers of dough and butter.
What are laminated doughs?
An example of a biological leaving agent.
What is yeast?
This process in bread making develops gluten.
What is kneading?
A bain-marie is more commonly known as this in English.
What is a water bath?
This category of bread is made exclusively from flour, water, salt, and yeast.
What are lean doughs?
The many-layered Austrian dessert made of thin sheets of phyllo dough, nuts, and honey syrup.
What is baklava?
The kind of flour with the highest gluten content.
What is bread flour?
This method for making puff pastry involves repeatedly folding butter into dough.
What is lamination?
This type of cake pan needs to cool upside down because it is specifically designed for making this type of cake.
This enriched bread, popular in France, is known for its high butter and egg content.
What is brioche?
This type of pastry dough is used for items like éclairs and cream puffs, and is cooked on the stovetop before baking.
What is pâte à choux?