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Baking Basics: Common Techniques

An intrduction to commonly used techniques.

Common steps during and after baking:
  • Preheating the oven
  • Putting the batter or dough into the baking pan
  • Pricking the surface of the batter or dough to remove bubbles
  • Moving baking pans to different racks in the oven (especially if more than one pan is used)
  • Changing the oven temperature
  • Testing for doneness (follow instructions in recipe)
  • Removing the food after cooking
  • Letting the cooked food cool down
  • Decorating the food



Terms used to describe techniques used for these baking steps include:


Drop, pour put a lump of dough or batter into a baking pan

Brush dip a brush in oil or egg and then brush the liquid over dough

Bake cook in a hot oven

Brown, broil cook at high heat under a broiler to brown the surface of a food

Cool on a rack move a hot baking pan or cookie sheet to a wire rack until it cools to room temperature

Remove from pan use a spatula to remove cookies from a cookie sheet or to loosen a cake around the edges of the pan, then flip it onto a serving dish

Frost spread frosting on cookies or a cake

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