Essential Recipes Every Baker Should Have

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Here are the Top 6 Essential Recipes Every Baker Requires or should have to carry out their further baking endeavors. From cakes to cookies, there are millions of recipes on board but a few are essential, to begin with, your baking journey !!

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Very often I’m asked which is the recipe you love the most. Well !! The answer to it is I love basic recipes that can be developed further into gorgeous creations. 

As bakers, we are always on a hunt for quality, fool-proof excellent recipes. But I want you to know that before you begin with baking a number of fancy recipes that are all over the internet, you need to get your basics right !! 

Eg: To create a fancy birthday cake, you first need to master baking of a simple cake sponge and then move to frostings and decoration 

So here are the Essential recipes every baker requires or should have which will help in developing more recipes and enhance baking skills for future challenges 

Essential Recipes Every Baker Requires Or Should Have

#1 Vanilla Cake Sponge 

Have you ever dreamt of creating gorgeous cakes ?? Or maybe making a beautiful birthday cake ?? Well, it all begins with having a great cake sponge. There are so so many cake recipes online, from red velvet to blue velvet and more but you need to get started with owning the basic vanilla sponge cake that you are happy with. 

As a baker, you may have tried making a vanilla sponge cake but some of you may not be too happy with your version. Let me step in and give you a taste of my personal recipe which I totally rely on. It helps me come up with more variations like rainbow cakes, marble effect cakes, etc with variations to this recipe itself 

My Personal Recipe

Vanilla Cake Sponge With Egg (I also call it my classic butter pound cake)

Vanilla Cake Sponge Eggless 

#2 Chocolate Cake Sponge 

The market is all about chocolate lovers so after you’ve got the vanilla sponge right you need to move to the chocolate sponge. Chocolate cakes are a must to master whether you love it or don’t, your family or clients or both LOVE IT !! 

If you’ve mastered cakes from vanilla to chocolate, you’re all set to create more recipes in future 

My Personal Recipe

Chocolate Cake Sponge (eggless)

#3 Basic Bread Dough

Now that you know how to bake a cake let’s move onto how to bake a bread. At first no fancy bread recipes on board, you need to learn the right techniques and follow the right recipe to making a good simple basic bread. This will help you in building recipes in the future and also following the right techniques for baking more bread  

My Personal Recipe 

Super Soft Basic Bread (eggless)

#4 Chocolate Chip Cookies 

Cookies are tricky !! They sometimes turn flat and sometimes don’t spread at all. Among all the cookie recipes chocolate chip cookies are super popular and a must own recipe for every baker. These cookies are loved by many and the internet has so many recipes available. I developed my perfect cookie recipe. Have you found yours ?? 

My Personal Recipe 

The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

#5 Pie crust / Tart Crust 

Every baker needs to have a good pie crust/tart crust recipe that they could rely on. With just one recipe you can create so many types and flavors of pies and tarts. My definition of a perfect crust is crisp & buttery. In the past, I’ve even shared with you a post on All You Need To Know About Baking A Pie Crust/ Tart Crust 

My Personal Recipe 

Sweet Pastry Crust

Pie Crust / Tart Crust

#6 Chocolate Ganache Recipe 

Now that you know how to make basic cakes, cookies, bread, etc you need to get a little advance on how to decorate or simply just make the basic baking tastier. That’s where frostings step in. The most popular and easy frosting to make is the chocolate ganache frosting. You can use it on cakes, cookies, in bread and even as a filling for your tarts. 

To master this, I thought I should introduce you to my master itself.

Veena Azmanov is a super popular baker and cake decorator based in Israel. I believe her article on Chocolate Ganache is to the point and perfect for all you bakers. 

Her Personal Recipe 

Chocolate Ganache Recipe – Dark, Milk Or White Chocolate

These Top 6 recipes are something that every baker should possess. Their foolproof and will help you come up with more variations. If you are new to baking, I’d recommend mastering these recipes and then the others all over the internet cos basics is what matters the most 

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