Kimberly Palizia, a fourth-grader at Goshen Elementary School in Gaithersburg, is looking forward to baking bread at home. The 10-year-old and about 600 other fourth-graders from seven Montgomery ...

Don’t look now, but baking season is breathing down your neck. (I know, already?) This column will help you understand some of the science that goes into baking perfect cookies, cakes and breads. This ...

Yes, baking is chemistry, cooking is art. But this oversimplified nugget of kitchen wisdom holds some serious truth, and understanding how might just change how you approach your next meal. The ...

Leavening agents rarely attract attention beyond the moment a cake rises or fails, yet their chemistry shapes texture, flavour, and even nutritional exposure across home kitchens and industrial ...

In cake making sugar and flour are combined to make a sweet batter. The lightness is obtained by entangling air in the eggs and by the formation of a gas resulting from the union of soda and cream of ...