Kitchen Tips & Tricks

Learn my best tips and tricks for baking, cooking and food prep. From how to make a Lattice Pie Crust, make the best Chocolate Chip Cookies, and peel a Hard-Boiled Egg, you’ll learn it all!

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How to Line a Round Cake Pan with Parchment Paper

Learn the easy way to line a round cake pan with parchment paper and remove even the softest, stickiest cakes with ease! This trick is a lifesaver!

Bottom pie crust, blind baked

How to Blind Bake Pie Crust

Perfect for a no-bake pie or custard pie, blind baking a pie crust is barely any more work than making the pie crust dough.

Pattern to roll a perfect circle from pie crust

How to Roll Pie Crust in a Perfect Circle

All the secrets you need to know to roll pie crust in a perfect circle.

cookies baked at different temperatures

How Baking Temperature Affects Your Cookies

Unlock the secret to perfect cookies by changing the baking temperature! Here’s what happens to cookies’ texture and shape at different oven temperatures.

shortening in a glass jar showing air pockets at the bottom

Do You Know the Correct Way to Measure Shortening?

Most home bakers never learn the correct way to measure shortening. If you’re buying Crisco in a tub, you need to know this!

chocolate chip cookies

Harness the Power of Laziness to Make the Best Cookies!

What if doing less work each day could result in the best chocolate chip cookies you’ve ever made? It can! Find out how in this article!

2 quart jars of whey leftover from making yogurt

Amazing Uses for Yogurt Whey: It’s Liquid Gold!

Check out my favorite ways to use up leftover whey after making yogurt. With these recipes, you’ll want to make yogurt so you don’t run out of whey!

thick swirl of black frosting surrounded by thin swirls

Simple Hack for the Blackest Black Frosting

Use this simple trick to get a deep black frosting (instead of dark gray).

Easiest way to peel oranges: Peeled orange surrounded by a flower of orange peels

Easiest Way to Peel Oranges, No Special Tools Required

Oranges are delicious, but a pain to peel! Check out my simple step-by-step tutorial that will keep you happily eating citrus all winter long!

homemade cinnamon applesauce in pint and quart jars surrounded by apples, learn to can homemade applesauce

How to Can Homemade Applesauce

Preserve your own homemade applesauce with only a big pot, canning jars and a few simple tools.

diced apples

Best Way to Dice Apples

The simplest way to dice apples using only an apple peeler and a knife.

pretty hard-boiled eggs after peeling with the Shake It Up Hack for peeling hard-boiled eggs

Best Hack for Peeling Hard-Boiled Eggs

Learn the best hack for peeling hard-boiled eggs. I compared 4 methods to find which is the easiest and produces the best-looking eggs.

Blueberry pie with lattice pie crust, close up

Make a Lattice Pie Crust the Easy Way

Everyone loves a lattice pie crust! So classic! So pretty! And now so easy!

chocolate chip cookies

Secrets to Soft, Round Chocolate Chip Cookies

Learn how to make perfect soft, tall chocolate chip cookies.

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I’m Angie

Angie

Wife, mother of 5 and baker of breads, cookies and more! Baking and cooking from scratch helps us to be frugal and control what we feed our families. Join me on From Scratch to Scrumptious to find recipes that are delicious and easily made with ingredients you already have in your pantry!

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