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Baking Strategies

Love to Bake? Find baking tips, techniques and ideas on how to make the most of your baking. You’ll find ideas on how to frost the perfect cake, tips on baking with kids, baking substitutions and more.

Baking and Cooking at High Altitudes

We’ve provided this guide to help those who live at high altitudes bake and cook with success. At high altitudes, about 3,500 feet or more above sea level, foods bake and cook differently than if prepared at sea level.

Baking with Kids

Plan good times to bake. Anticipate a child wanting to help. Keep on hand some easy mixes or ingredients for some easily made recipes. Cookies and muffins are where many on Betty's staff got their start!

Butter, Margarine, Spreads & Oils in Baking

For best baking results, use the type of fat called for in the recipe. Recipes are optimized in the Betty Crocker® Kitchens using butter, margarine or oil to create the best flavor, texture, browning and overall baking performance.

Cake Baking Tips

Making a cake is simple and fun with these baking and decorating tips. Learn how to make a cake with a few baking and decorating tips, such as mixing batter, greasing a pan and removing a cake from a pan.

Cake Making 101

Making cakes is easy with our cake baking tips. Learn how to frost layer cakes and how to freeze cake. Get tips on storing cakes and baking cakes.

Easy Frosting Tips for Layered Cakes

Get tips for baking and frosting layered cakes on the same day, or days in advance. Plus general cake frosting tips.

Healthy Baking Tips and Low-Fat Substitutions

Want to lower the fat content in recipes while keeping flavor at the forefront? Try these healthy baking tips for great taste.

How to Frost a Cake

There's a good reason for the expression "it's the icing on the cake"! Frosting makes the cake super special, keeps the cake extra moist and adds another level of flavor to your cake.

How to Hold a Bake Sale

Have fun and make money, too! Bake sales have been a tasty way to raise money for generations. Create extra special baked treats to entice your customers and raise money for your cause.

How to Host a Cake Walk

Let cakes ‘take the cake’ for a fun way to engage all ages at a block party or an organization’s fundraiser.

How to Make Cupcakes

What's great about cupcakes is that a few basic skills, tools and ingredients are all you need to make cupcakes for any occasion, whether they're for a party that's a month away or you're in the mood for a spur-of-the-moment batch.
 

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