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Please help, bitter tasting bites of baking soda or powder in my baked goods :(
  • Eliza78
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KrisM
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Over-sticky dough
  • Possum-Pie
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Possum-Pie
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Was it the Dutch processed cocoa?
  • rogue_baker
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rogue_baker
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Mr. Messy Hands
  • Dough Dude Chi
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Flan
  • Chfmarylou
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Crystal27
Why does my doughnuts go flat after it's second proof after shaping?
  • Crystal27
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41
Crystal27
Crystal27
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Yeasted puff pastry fail
  • accomplished mess
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71
chassis
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Wedding Cake Collapsed - Need advice
  • setarehsanjarani
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97
retired baker
retired baker
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Cookie Bars will NOT cook!!
  • maringel
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chassis
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Mixed nut brittle seized, turned into cement when adding 1/4 tsp of baking soda!
  • PastryChefAZ
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PastryChefAZ
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Grainy American Buttercream
  • RachelB
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RachelB
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HotStrawberry
Milky Royal Icing
  • HotStrawberry
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HotStrawberry
HotStrawberry
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Cupcakes baking with crispy, lacey tops and a gummy texture inside.
  • Niki
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87
Norcalbaker59
Norcalbaker59
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Soupy Swiss meringue buttercream
  • BakingInTheApocalypse
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1
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43
Norcalbaker59
Norcalbaker59
HotStrawberry
Water bath for cheesecake
  • HotStrawberry
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238
DonnaJ
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Crystal27
Why were my doughnuts slightly doughy?
  • Crystal27
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75
Crystal27
Crystal27
Crystal27
Why does my yeast dough only rise in the oven but it won't rise on the counter?
  • Crystal27
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58
Crystal27
Crystal27
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Bready eclairs
  • Dm baking
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Dm baking
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Caramelised white chocolate (help!)
  • xafirefly
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74
xafirefly
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Crystal27
Why is my dough always so wet and sticky?
  • Crystal27
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93
Norcalbaker59
Norcalbaker59
Crystal27
Why is the gluten so weak in my doughnuts?
  • Crystal27
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7
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156
Crystal27
Crystal27
Crystal27
Why does my bread dough take longer to fully rise
  • Crystal27
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4
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90
Norcalbaker59
Norcalbaker59
Crystal27
Why does my doughnuts always look like this after cooked?
  • Crystal27
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briochenewbaker
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Crystal27
Why does my pizza always taste like bread?
  • Crystal27
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3
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123
Sharzi
Sharzi
Crystal27
Why is gluten so weak in my dough?
  • Crystal27
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97
Norcalbaker59
Norcalbaker59
Crystal27
Why do one of my doughnuts have a white line and the others don't?
  • Crystal27
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254
Crystal27
Crystal27
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This eggless recipe always gives weird cracked cakes/ cupcakes
  • Misona
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2
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2K
Norcalbaker59
Norcalbaker59
Crystal27
Why doesn't my dough rise enough?
  • Crystal27
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2
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88
Crystal27
Crystal27
Crystal27
Why was my dough still sticky?
  • Crystal27
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3
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103
Crystal27
Crystal27
Crystal27
Why can I never get the white line around the center of my doughnuts even though I proofed them well?
  • Crystal27
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3
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156
Crystal27
Crystal27
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Silicone-lined Cardboard Baking Tray Issues!
  • Lisa101
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76
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Bundt cake doming
  • Honey
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3
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131
Norcalbaker59
Norcalbaker59
Cruimh
Folds in bread
  • Cruimh
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8
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138
Norcalbaker59
Norcalbaker59
Megatron176
Donut pan help
  • Megatron176
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122
chassis
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No taste of sherry from trifle- what went wrong? making another
  • Angelbaker
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2
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192
retired baker
retired baker
Zyni
How to fix a falling apart Cake
  • Zyni
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Bobbi1258
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Using a retarder proofer for Donuts
  • bakerdonatello
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210
retired baker
retired baker
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Customer cake complaint
  • Shabana_786
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retired baker
retired baker
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One cookie out out of fifteen was weird.
  • kentc
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kentc
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Butter separating from toffee caramel
  • Misha
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Misha
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No taste of sherry from sherry trife
  • Angelbaker
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Angelbaker
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Blue velvet cake Gone Sideways
  • Pretti
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Norcalbaker59
Norcalbaker59
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Banana muffins
  • Padma
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Tintagel
Tintagel
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Gingerbread men dough rock hard
  • ali
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Norcalbaker59
Norcalbaker59
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Disaster ginger snap cookies
  • megiraffe
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megiraffe
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Pink cookies turn brown in the oven
  • Alyssa
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cremefraiche
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Opera cake
  • Keren
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retired baker
retired baker
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Please help. Am into commercial production of doughnuts. I mix with a milling machine but my doughnuts don't puff while frying instead it shrinks
  • Oluoma
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137
retired baker
retired baker
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I added too much flour and my cake is in the oven
  • nahyee
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chassis
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Apple Crisp Is Turning Gray
  • tomj777
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1
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198
retired baker
retired baker
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