Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professional bakers and home cooks alike can agree that nothing is quite as satisfying as watching that seasonal quick bread rise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even if you've never made homemade bread, which was me until one week ago, you're going to need a few items to be successful.

The bakeware essentials. These are the no-frills, must-have baking pans, sheet pans, pie plates and molds that we rely on daily. Why? Because they're as basic as it gets, and you can't beat that.

I hear the same things whenever I tell somebody I make sourdough bread: I could never do that. It's too many steps. I used to say the same thing, having never been much of a baker and always more of a ...

Baking bread can be so satisfying—from the bubbly starter to that first warm, chewy bite. But even after being professionally trained and enthusiastically experimental over the years, I could never ...

I can’t remember the exact moment my husband and I became Serious Bread Bakers. It could have been the day I realized that we hadn’t bought bread from a store in more than three years. Or the time he ...

Silicone pans are more flexible and durable than metal ones. Your baked goods are less prone to breakage in a silicone pan. For crispy cookies or crusty bread, a metal pan is better. Whether you're an ...

I stumbled on Ken Forkish’s Evolutions in Bread just as I was giving up on baking sourdough bread. Giving up was, perhaps, too strong a term. More accurate: letting my starter languish in the back of ...