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so what went wrong with the fondant?

I used this recipe but it just didn’t come out right. It was too tacky so I slowly kneaded in more powderedc sugar, but at a certain point it was still soft and tacky, and also cracking. Bits would peel off the top onto my rolling pin even though it had been covered [...]

I need help with a chocolate rum cake recipe?

This is a recipe that I’ve altered to use stevia extract instead of sugar. What I would like to do is take the rum from 1/2 cup to 1 full cup. How would I do that? I would also like to make the cake more moist than it is.
4 ounces melted dark chocolate* 2 cups all [...]

Most fattening recipe you can think of?

So my husband and I have a bet going that we started yesterday. He is in the navy and in a few weeks he is leaving for 5 months, our bet is which one of us can lose the most body weight percent over the time he is gone (because men lose weight more [...]

how important is oven quality in baking?

I’ve been an avid baker for years. One problem I seem to encounter continuously is with cake baking, my cakes often come out quite dense or cooked unevenly…
i have a very old oven (came with the house 15 years ago) and i know this is definitely part of the problem. the "bake" doesn’t even [...]

I'm making fondant for a cake. Recipe calls for vanilla extract. Can I use lemon or almond extract instead?

I’m using this recipe (which I found on Y!A), but my vanilla extract is ugly brown and not clear :/ Will the fondant taste bad if I use lemon or almond? If both are okay, which would be tastier?
Fondant
1 cup light corn syrup
1 cup shortening
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
2 pounds confectioners’ [...]

Ok, I have a hand mixer, but it only has thin wire whisks attachments. do i need a "Flat beater"?

for cakes & cookies.
the wire whisk things can’t do butter, sugar I don’t think, it’ll get all clogged & they are kind of delicate (more for egg whites I guess?). The other attachments are just dough hooks or immersion blending (both of which I don’t need).
I noticed on Food Channel etc. they almost always use [...]