By Sharon Davis, HomeBaking.org What a perfect time to spotlight home baker Jenny Kalvaitis and her family’s traditional Lithuanian Bacon Buns. This family recipe and favorite of Jenny’s is a common Lithuanian recipe with her own family’s twists and small improvements from over the years. They often bake them during Christmas and holiday seasons. They’ll […]
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A Baker’s Dozen Labs
A Baker’s Dozen Labs digital manual provides 278 pages of teaching material! Thirteen labs with first, intermediate and advanced culinary baking formulas and lessons. Includes 32+ copy-ready resources and worksheets. Each lab includes baking science experiments, computer labs, community service connections and live links to how-to-videos and the baking glossary. This is a must have […]
Exciting Butter Book Offer from HBA
The Butter Book brings food enthusiasts of all levels together to learn and master pastry, baking and cake decorating – SAVE $49.99 Founded by world-renowned chefs Sebastien Canonne & Jacquy Pfeiffer of The French Pastry School, The Butter Book is an online baking community with lessons designed to inspire delicious creativity in the kitchen. If you’re a beginner looking to master the […]
Perfect Summer to Shape Baking Skills
With this year’s challenge in what’s open and what’s closed, you can make time can fly with some creative baking skill building with dough. Any summer sandwich tastes great on a Kaiser or Rosette Roll. Use a well-kneaded and cold yeast dough. We recommend the Refrigerated Potato Dough from Dough Sculpting 101 but any well-kneaded […]
Educator Award Winners Announced
Congratulations to the 2020 Home Baking Association Educator Award Winners! First Place Selection: Marla Prusa Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher Howells, Nebraska Entry: Pastry Pizazz Honorable Mention – Ingredient Inspired Elizabeth Hagan Bayard, Iowa Sugar Detectives: Uncovering and Examining the Sneaky Ways Sugar Transforms Baked Goods Honorable Mention – Community Service Inspired Marissa Johnson Savannah, GA Baking […]
Measurement Guide
Purchase a pack of these Measurement Guide cards to share with your classroom! Measurement Guide The measurement guide includes 25 standardized references for measuring. $8.00 (Pack of 25)
You’ve Got Flour!
Contact: Sharon Davis, Family & Consumer Sciences EducationHomeBaking.org, hbadavis@gmail.comDownload PDF of this release You’re home. You’ve got a kitchen. You’ve got flour! Homebound might not be all bad. There are dozens of essentials you can bake. The Home Baking Association can help get that flour from the bowl to the oven and on your table. […]
Whole Grain Sampling Day
The Home Baking Association loves to award bakers who share what they know with someone else! Why not make make Whole Grain Sampling Day a part of your creative plans to teach OR share with a group of your favorite baked whole grain product and how you prepared it. Whole grain (WG) flours or meal […]
Living Well
Our heads are spinning with virus news and cancellations. No matter what, no one can afford to be sick. There are some great resources to be accessed for Living Well Month with the national Family & Consumer Sciences professionals at www.NEAFCS.org Your #1 Tip: Wash your hands. 1. Wash after you’re out and about. 2. Wash counters, […]
Bake and Take!
The simplest baked item made and delivered by you is therapy for all these days. In Kansas this practice became “Bake and Take Day” more than 40 years ago, launched as an opportunity to celebrate relationships with friends and family. Now a national promotion and celebrated throughout March, the Kansas Wheat Commission is teaming up with […]
