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How to Cut Butter Into Flour (4 Ways + An Easy Trick!)

4 different ways to cut butter into flour for recipes like pie crusts or biscuits. The 4th method of cutting butter in flour on this list is my all time favorite kitchen tips, and also the best way to cut butter into flour if you’re wondering “what can I substitute for a pastry blender”!

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5 Tips for Baking with Yeast and What to Make with Yeast

These tips for baking with yeast will help you feel more confident in the kitchen and yield more successful results. Be sure to check out a few of my favorite recipes if you’re wondering what to make with yeast – they’re all tried and true family favorites that even my picky eater approves of.  Save …

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Grinding Your Own Flours and Using Whole Grains

This tutorial on grinding flours from whole grains is written by Allison of Some the Wiser. Welcome, Allison! It is such a good idea to grind your own flours. But as someone who once thought microwavable rice packets were a “good” meal (it was college, forgive me), I know it may seem like an unnecessary …

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Kitchen Tip: Two Tone Frosting for Cupcakes

After I posted the Lemon Coconut Cupcakes that I made for Logan’s birthday so many of you asked: How did you make the two-toned color icing for those cupcakes? The two tone technique for decorating cupcakes is really a lot easier than you might think and it is so fun. Besides looking pretty, you can …

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Kitchen Tip: Cupcake Piping Tricks

You’ll see in the recipe index that I’ve only featured a few cupcake recipes. Cakes in general kind of overwhelm me. Especially layer cakes and it’s only recently that I’ve gotten more into making and frosting cupcakes. This post should probably be titled “The Kitchen Tip Most People Probably Already Know.” But even a year …

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