2020 Baking A calendar of baking hacks and hospitality - Top Baking Hack: Always consult our Bakers Glossary.

2020 Baking
       A calendar of baking hacks and hospitality.

Top Baking Hack: Always consult our Bakers Glossary.
            HomeBaking.org/glossary/

January Bakers

 Janus is the Roman god of beginnings and endings.
 Mentor a beginning baker! Together you can reduce the use of
  packaged, single serving, ready-to-eat foods— $aving$ for you and
  the planet!
 Baking Hack: Level-headed Measuring

January Bakers
                 Celebrate Oatmeal!
 Treat yourself well: why oatmeal’s so
  great!

 Bake Oatmeal Jam Bars

 Love more whole grains

Healthy Addition Pancakes

Baking Hack:
Short on brown sugar? Cream 1 cup
white sugar with 2 Tablespoons
molasses

January Bakers
                     It’s Soup Month!

 Home baked bread bowls are great
  for your favorite soups and hot or
  cold dips.
 Bread bowls are pennies to bake.
  Surprise! They’re ~$4 when you eat
  out.
 Let Chef Tess guide you!
  4-Ingredient Bread Bowl
 Baking Hack: Cool unused baked
  bowls and wrap to freeze up to 3
  months. Thaw, unwrap just before
  using; warm 10 minutes in 350°F
  oven until heated through.

January Bakers
                   It’s Slow Cooker Month

 Bake and Tell! #SlowCookerMonth

 Baking Hack: Fix-It and Forget-It Baking author Phyllis Good
  suggests: “Bake in a round 5- or 6-qt slow cooker—round 1-qt
  baking dishes, cake pans, loaves, canning jars can be used.”

 Try Cheesecake in a Jar

 Slow Cooker Fudge Pudding Cake

January Bakers
          Week 2 = Folic Acid Awareness Week

 Folic acid (a form of folate) is a B-vitamin with many
  health benefits

 Baking Hack: An all-purpose good move: Since 1998,
  the FDA required enriched flours, cornmeal, corn grits,
  pasta, and many baked goods to be fortified with folic
  acid.

 Cele’bake with Gemma’s                               1-
  Hour Dinner Rolls

January Bakers
          IT’S PIZZA WEEK! January 12 to 18, 2020

 A week? Just a start for pizza bakers!
 Let “adulting” begin with making your own
  pizza crust. $ave dollars and
  packaging…make your own dough. Freeze it
  to “top-and-bake” and save time.
 Here’s how: Home Made Pizza Crust
 Baking Hack: No Oven? Grill Pizza! I’ve
  even baked it on an oven-safe dinner plate!
 No pizza pan? SEE video on how, to bake
  Easy Sheet Pan Pizza

January Bakers
                  Week #3: Sugar Awareness

 Farm to Table, there’s more to
  sugar! Explore the science, facts
  and myths. What IS Sugar?

 What’s sugar’s role in food ?

 Diet: How much are we eating?

 Baking Hack: Learn the types of
  sugar and their uses.

 Homemade Baked Sugar Donuts!

January Bakers
                January 6 is Shortbread Day

 What is Shortbread? It’s a Scottish
  staple with tea.
 Baking Hack: No matter how large
  or small the recipe, shortbread’s a
  “3-2-1” recipe. 3 parts flour, 2 parts
  butter and 1 part powdered sugar.
 Here’s our member Gemma’s Bigger
  Bolder Baking 3-Ingredient
  Shortbread Cookie recipe and
  video!

Bittersweet Chocolate Day
                      January 10, 2020

 Launch 2020 learning! Join
  Fundamentals of Chocolate at
  The French Pastry School April 28-
  April 30, Chicago.
 There’s nothing bittersweet about
  these Whole Wheat Brownies!
 Baking Hack: Don’t have bittersweet
  chocolate? Bittersweet and
  semisweet, both dark chocolates,
  must contain 35% cacao and less
  than 12% milk solids. Semi-sweet
  will likely be sweeter though.

Blonde Brownie Day
                       January 22, 2020

NEW BAKING INGREDIENT ALERT!
            Golden Sugar
 Golden sugar: a less-processed cane
  sugar, with beautiful brown color and
  hint of molasses flavor

 Use: cup-for-cup like white sugar

 Test Bake: Blondie Brownies with
  Walnuts and Chocolate Chips

National Pie Day
                        January 23, 2020

 Start smart with the pie Test
  Kitchen Pros. All About Pies

 Baking Hack: Chill everything-
  water, fat, flour, bowl. If needed,
  roll dough disc between two
  parchment paper sheets and slide
  into the freezer to re-chill dough.

 Going with a savory pie? Chicken
  Asiago Spinach Quiche
  Go with Wheat Pastry Crust.

Chocolate Cake Day
                     January 27, 2020

 Cupcakes, sheet cakes, layer, bundt, cake bites, bars, mug
  cakes…just bake something chocolate and share!

 Baking Hack: Bake cake done at center (200° F.) No
  thermometer? How to tell if your cake is done.

 Go vintage…Buttermilk
  Choco-Nut Sheet Cake!

 Or… Chai Brownie Cup Cakes

with Creamy Froth on top!

Blueberry Pancake Day
                       January 28, 2020

 It’s also Have Fun at Work Day…so
  bring your blueberry pancake recipe,
  ingredients, griddle and make some
  fun happen!
 Baking Hack: Keep a package of
  dried blueberries on hand. Pre-
  condition dried fruit: Cover in water,
  immediately drain. Just before you
  ‘flip, sprinkle on bubbling batter.
 Orange Oatmeal pancakes topped
  with Blueberry Simple Syrup – What
  a great flavor combination!

Hot Chocolate Day
                         January 31, 2020

 Baking Hack #13 : Young and old
  can learn from Chocolate. A Small
  History by Sandra Markle.

 Hot Chocolate: Whisk together 2
  tablespoons unsweetened cocoa and 1
  heaping tablespoon brown sugar. Stir
  into 1 cup milk, 2 tablespoons cream
  and ¼ tsp. vanilla. Heat to steaming.

 Sign off January as Mentoring Month
  and “Book and Bake” with a friend,
  Hot Chocolate Cookies

February Bakers
        Sneak Peak

 Bake for Family Fun events
• Build family & communities
• Provide hands-on life skills
  development
• Increase communications
• Kindle food and “adulting”
  skills
• Offer Baking Food Safety
  resources
• Take virtual to actual skills