Baking Ingredients

This Ghirardelli Brownie Mix is my favorite boxed mix! With a chewy texture and a crackly top crust, it's my ideal brownie taste and texture.

This spice cake mix makes it easy to whip up a spice cake at home!

I love these Circus Animal Cookies! They're such a fun addition to cakes, cheesecakes, ice cream, and so much more! Their bright colors and sweet flavor are nostalgic and fun.

Oreo cookies make a great addition to any dessert. Crush them and add them to ice cream, buttercream, cakes, brownies, cookies, and more!

These mini Oreo cookies make adorable decorations for cakes, cupcakes, and more!

Dried lavender adds a wonderful lavender flavor to cakes, frostings, muffins, and more! You can grind it up with granulated sugar and use this lavender sugar in baking recipes, or add it to liquids to infuse milk or water with lavender.

Freeze-dried strawberries are my secret weapon for adding a vibrant strawberry flavor to desserts. These crunchy little morsels are tasty on their own, but my favorite way to use them is to grind them up in a food processor and add the strawberry powder to whipped cream, buttercream frosting, or any cream filling! The powder gives it a strong strawberry taste without adding excess liquid that might mess up the texture.

This Meringue Powder is great for making royal icing. It stays fresh for a long time, so it's good to keep as a pantry staple, and can be used as a substitute for powdered egg whites in a pinch.

This Orange Flavoring Oil is great for giving candies and baked goods a strong, vibrant orange flavor. Unlike extracts, orange oil is very potent, so you only need a small amount to get a big orange taste! It can also be added straight to melted chocolate and will not cause the chocolate to seize.

These chocolate oranges are great for eating, and also make wonderful cake and cupcake decorations!

This is my favorite purple gel food coloring. Just a little bit is needed to turn your frosting and baked goods a beautiful shade of purple! Regal Purple is nice because it's a true purple--not too blue and not too pink. If you're looking for something more on the blue spectrum, try Americolor Violet, and if you prefer something more pink, try Americolor Electric Purple.

This is my favorite blue gel food coloring. Just a little bit is needed to turn your frosting and baked goods a beautiful shade of sky blue!

This is my favorite pink gel food coloring. Just a little bit is needed to turn your frosting and baked goods a deep pink color.

Chocolate Biscotti is a delicious treat on its own, but it can also be an ingredient used in making other desserts! I like to crumble it up and use it as a cake and cupcake topping, or use it instead of ladyfingers in trifles and tiramisu.

Avocado Green gel food coloring from Americolor is a beautiful deep green with yellow and brown tones. It gives a nicely realistic color to plants, leaves, vines, succulents, and more.

Mini Candy Canes are a baking necessity around Christmas time! Use them to decorate cakes or cupcakes, or crush them up and mix them into brownie batter or frosting!

Black gel food coloring is a MUST in my kitchen! It is so hard to achieve a true black color without adding a gallon of food coloring--and even then, you often end up with a dull gray instead. This Americolor gel is the best I've found--it's very intense, and will produce a deep black without the need to add a ton of additional coloring.Pro tip: whenever possible, when trying to achieve a black color, I like to start with chocolate desserts. It's much easier to get to black when starting from brown, versus starting from white! So if chocolate frosting or chocolate cake works with the dessert you have in mind, I suggest starting with chocolate and adding black food coloring to that. You'll thank me for it!

Red Candy Melts are an easy way to make red candies at home. Red can be a very hard color to achieve with food coloring, so whenever possible I always recommend buying red candy coating or red fondant–it’s just much easier to get a true red without having to add a gallon of coloring! These wafers melt easily, have a pleasant taste, and are great for dipping and molding. Use them for making Valentine's Day Candies, Christmas Candies, or spooky Halloween candies!

This cream cheese flavoring is my secret weapon when it comes to making cream cheese buttercream! Adding cream cheese to frosting makes it softer, and sometimes I really want a stiff buttercream with a tangy cream cheese flavor. Introducing this flavoring extract! It's specially formulated for use in frostings, and a small amount will give your boring buttercream a great cream cheese flavor. It really allows you to have the best of both worlds!

Junior Mints are a great baking ingredient--they make a delicious, refreshing addition to cookies and brownies. They can also be used as a cake or cupcake topper!

Soft caramels are GREAT for baking. Melt them with a little liquid (I recommend cream or milk, although water also works!), and you have an instant caramel sauce or filling!

Creamy Peanut Butter is one of my favorite baking ingredients! When I'm having a PB&J I'm all about that crunchy PB life, but for baking, creamy is tops. It's easy to mix into things, and if you want peanut chunks, you can add freshly chopped ones so you can control what size and how many peanuts are included.

Snickers aren't just for eating--you can bake with them, too! They make great toppers for cupcakes, cakes, and brownies.