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Chocolate for Baking - by America's Test Kitchen

America's Test Kitchen just recently tested chocolates in preparation for our holiday baking.   Here are their Test Kitchen winners--

• Unsweetened Chocolate - Scharffen Berger Unsweetened Chocolate
• Cocoa Powder - Callebaut Cocoa Powder
• Bittersweet/Semisweet Chocolate - Ghirardelli Bittersweet Chocolate
• Chocolate Chips - Guittard Semisweet Chocolate Chips & Nestle Semisweet Chocolate Chunks

via Cook's Illustrated

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10 Favorite Cakes & Pies for the Holidays

Great baking ideas for Thanksgiving and Christmas

Epicurious.com presents its top 10 favorite cake and pie recipes from their recipe database.  Some are just perfect for your Thanksgiving dinners and Christmas parties.  If you have your own favorite, submit your own dessert recipe to their monthly contest for different prizes each month.

Favorite cakes and pie recipes  |  via epicurious.com

How to Bake Bread in a Dutch Oven

Dutch ovens were made for baking. In the hands of a practiced baker, a Dutch oven will create beautiful breads and desserts. (Though some of us tend to burn breads in a Dutch oven.)

You can always bake bread in a well-oiled Dutch oven but instead of baking directly in the oven, consider this method: Put the dough in a baking pan and the pan in the Dutch oven.

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Cookie cutters for Halloween cookies

Make your spookiest  cookies with these  Halloween themed copper cookie cutters.

Halloween Cookie Cutters  |  $19 at Sur la Table

The Cupcake Rage Continues

Track the love affair with cupcakes at Cupcakes Take the Cake blog. Filled with photos, recipes, and reviews of cupcake bakeries from around the country.  Make no mistake, cupcakes are a real food trend.

Visit the blog:  Cupcakes Take the Cake