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Learn how to be a better baker with these baking tips! From ingredient guides to how-tos, from tips to techniques, this is the place to get started on your journey to becoming a sugar hero in your own kitchen.

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Hand holding a small key lime above an assortment of key limes and regular limes.

Ingredient Guides

Key Limes vs Regular Limes: What’s the difference?

Cake with an assortment of blue and green chocolate feathers affixed to the side.

How-Tos & Techniques · Video Recipes

Chocolate Feathers

Variety of dark and milk chocolate leaves on a white plate.

How-Tos & Techniques · Video Recipes

How to Make Chocolate Leaves

Jar full of Cinnamon Syrup, with cinnamon stick poking out of the top.

Breakfast · Homemade Ingredients

Cinnamon Syrup

Lavender syrup in a clear glass jar, with a sprig of fresh lavender tied to the top.

Homemade Ingredients

Lavender Simple Syrup

Close up of a pink and white Chocolate Bowl.

How-Tos & Techniques · Video Recipes

How to Make Chocolate Bowls

Passion fruit puree in a glass jar with a white spoon sticking out.

Homemade Ingredients · How-Tos & Techniques

How to Make Passion Fruit Puree

Two passion fruit, cut in half, on a white plate with a colorful napkin in the background.

Ingredient Guides

Passion Fruit Guide: Choosing, Storing, Eating, & More

How to Separate Eggs into Egg Whites and Egg Yolks

How-Tos & Techniques · Video Recipes

How to Separate Eggs (Four Different Ways!)

Brush dripping Homemade Pan Release into a plastic container.

How-Tos & Techniques

Homemade Pan Release

Spoon smoothing shortening into a measuring cup with can of shortening in the background.

How-Tos & Techniques

How to Measure Shortening

Cameo brooch chocolate mold.

How-Tos & Techniques

How To Make Your Own Chocolate Molds

Four Fantastic Ways to Use Ganache | From SugarHero.com

Four Fantastic Ways to Use Ganache

2 photo collage of chocolate being melted and stirred until smooth for the How to Temper Chocolate post.

Candy · How-Tos & Techniques

How to Temper Chocolate

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Close-up of a Crème Brûlée Donut on a white plate with more donuts in the background.

Crème Brûlée Donuts

Brown Butter Brownie leaning against a mason jar of milk

Brown Butter Brownies

Close up of black forest mini cake with hand placing cherry on top and additional mini cakes in the background.

Black Forest Mini Cakes

Deep Fried Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Deep Fried Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Chocolate-Dipped Pretzel Cupcake on a white plate with caramel drizzling down the front.

Chocolate-Dipped Pretzel Cupcakes

Close-up of three scoops of chocolate ice cream in a waffle cone.

No-Churn Chocolate Ice Cream