Professional Bakers Are Sharing The Industry Secrets At-Home Cooks Don't Know About, And I'm Taking NotesBaking can be tricky. With so many steps and ingredients , it can all feel very overwhelming.People shared everything from tips about ingredients to recommendations about kitchen scales "My wife is a home baker and one of her little tricks is to add instant coffee to chocolate cake to make the cake richer.
"Pay attention to differences in recipes that call for kosher salt , sea salt, crushed sea salt, pink salt, table salt, etc. Not all salts are interchangeable." "Also, use quality cinnamon, you get more flavor! I have 2 types of cinnamon in my cabinet, Indonesian and Vietnamese. They have different flavor profiles, and both are so much better than the cheap stuff."
"If you want to find a good base recipe for something, do a general search , then compare 5-7 recipes. They will usually have the same or similar base ingredients in the same ratios. There's your standard recipe. Then you can adjust dry versus wet ingredients to change up the flavors however you want."