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Easy muffin, cake and cookie recipes for first-time cooks are presented. The recipes include buttermilk spice muffins, yellow cake, chocolate layer cake, lemon buttercream frosting and chocolate chip cookies. Cupcake recipes are also presented.

Cooking tips excerpted from 'The Woman's Day Cookbook' help people better prepare salad, buy eggs, cook chicken and meat, grill food, cook grains and dried beans, prepare foods with garlic, cook pasta, store vegetables and buy seafood. Baking tips are also provided.

Baking tips for measuring ingredients, using eggs, sugar and honey in recipes, baking cakes, cookies, cheesecake and brownies, decorating cakes, and making a pie crust or dough are presented. Resources for further baking tips and using microwave ovens to bake are also given.

Low-fat cakes can be made by using applesauce for moisture. Recipe and illustrations, as well as nutrient content per serving, are included.

Home-baked pie crust and filling recipes are outlined.

Every trip to the kitchen can be a learning experience for the best of chefs around the world but one must use these experiences to good effect to work wonders in the kitchen. One is educated on how to buy the best veal in town or how to locate the right onion at the markets and in the ultimate proficiency test, one is taught how to make soft pretzels, a New York City icon.

Recipes for Halloween cake and cookies are presented. The cake takes 40 minutes to bake, and the time needed to decorate it depends on the skill of the baker. The cookies are made as decorations for the cake, and require food coloring to obtain the bright Halloween colors.

THE SHAPE OF CAKES TO COME Modern baking came to be the way all good things (antibiotics, petting zoos, firecrackers) came to be: through trial and error. As techniques improved [...]

Q: How can I keep cookies from spreading out and running together during baking? A: Chances are you're not letting the baking sheet get cool enough between batches. But if [...]

Baking is both an art and a science. With stovetop cooking, the home chef can try adding a pinch of this or a splash of that and consistently get good [...]

The creaming method in cake making usually requires softened butter to be beaten with sugar until light and fluffy. The interpretation of this direction is rather subjective with the extent of beating affecting the rising process. This is illustrated in the cooking of an almond cornmeal cake.

Farmer Dan of Wisconsin bakes apple-pie in a unique way inside a brown paper bag, which allows the juices of the fruit to simmer in it, which makes the pie crispy. The outlet, which stocks berry plants, asparagus crowns and potato seeds at his place are mentioned and Farmer Dan's passion is strawberry which inadvertently leads, to his discovering the way to bake his apple pie.

Pound cake is enjoyable to make, since it can be made at least eight hours in advance, can last for more than a week and freezes beautifully. Various recipes including dark chocolate brown sugar pound cake with chocolate glaze, and brown sugar sour cream are presented.