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Secret ingredients for baking
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Ashley Sturtz
As a pastry chef/baker for 11 years, here's my top ingredients with tips to take your baking to the next level.
 
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The BEST vanilla you'll need to take your baking to the next level.
Nielsen Massey Madagascar Vanilla Extract
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Fun way to add flavor, plus makes an all natural food dye for icings.
Freeze-Dried Raspberries | Raspberries | Nuts.com
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If you're a bagel making lover, malt powder will make your bagels, taste like they come from New York.
Non-Diastatic Malt Powder
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When making brown butter, add some of this to make your flavor more intense
Malted Milk Powder
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Nice salt is a MUST when it comes to sweets. A sprink of this on top of your desserts and it will make your flavor.
Maldon Sea Salt Flakes, Bulk Bucket, Organic Pyramid Crystals (1.25 lb)
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Add some of these to your chocolate chip cookies next time. 🤫☺️
Navitas Cacao Nibs, 8 oz
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Gelatin sheets are a pastry chef’s secret weapon for creating silky-smooth textures in mousses, panna cotta, marshmallows, and glazes. They dissolve more cleanly and reliably than powdered gelatin, giving your desserts a professional, glossy finish w...
Gold Gelatin Sheets for Baking – 40 Sheets (100 Grams) – Unflavored Clear Leaf Sheets for Desserts – 200 Bloom Strength – Product of Germany – Easy to Use – by Fit Lane Nutrition
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Add some espresso powder to your chocolate cake or brownies, to get a richer chocolate taste.
Espresso Powder
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The best and only cocoa powder I use.
Ghirardelli Majestic Dutch Processed Cocoa Powder, 2 lb
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Loved for their mild cocoa flavor and smooth melt, milk chocolate chips are popular in cookies, muffins, brownies, and snack mixes.
Callebaut No. 823 Finest Belgian Milk Chocolate | 33.6% Cacao, 20.8% Milk | 5.5 lb
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If you're making caramel, or candy. Find a recipe that uses glucose and notice how much better it'll turn out.
Gourmanity 2.2 lb Glucose Syrup, confectioners glaze, Liquid Glucose for baking, liquid glucose syrup, glucose baking, fondant glaze, glucose sugar syrup, Sucrose syrup, Kosher
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Caramelized white chocolate is so fun to make. But you can also skip a step and already have it done!
Cacao Barry Zéphyr Caramel 35% Caramelized White Couverture Chocolate Pistoles
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Make your desserts shine with gold foil ✨️ 💛 use a pencil eraser to easily get your piece off
10Pcs 24K Gold Foil Edible Gold Leaf Sheets For DIY Cake Decoration Arts Cra AL
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Cardamom extract enhances the flavor better than powder.
Cardamom Extract
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Take your favorite chocolate chip recipe, and use dried blueberries and white chocolate chips instead of chocolate chips 🤫😊
Dried Blueberries by It's Delish, 3 LBS Jumbo Container
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Make snickerdoodles, and instead of rolling in cinnamon-sugar mixture, use this 😍😍 one of my favorite fall tricks
Maple Cinnamon French Toast Sugar
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My go to white chocolate
Callebaut W2 28% White Chocolate Callets
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