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Baking can be rewarding if your food turns out right. However, baking can be complicated if you forget a step. That's why these baking hacks will change baking as you know it!

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The Amazing Baking Hacks Include: 

1. Make your own buttermilk

Using a 1-cup measuring cup, add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar. Fill the remainder of the cup with plain milk. Let it sit for five minutes.

2. Bring eggs to room temperature in five minutes 

If you forget to take the eggs out an hour before cooking just put the eggs in a bowl of hot water for 5 to 10 minutes.

3. Make your own oat flour with oats and a blender.

Just blend up some gluten-free oats in your blender until they're powdered!

4. Need a rolling pin? Grab a wine bottle!

Just use a wine bottle as your rolling pin! Empty or full, remove the label and scrape off any residue, then wash the outside of the bottle.
5. Make cake from a cake mix taste like a homemade treat.
6. “Ripen” bananas in the oven for baking.
Cook the bananas you need for your recipe in a 300ºF oven for 30 to 40 minutes. Be sure to line the pan with parchment paper or foil as some bananas may leak when cooking. Once the bananas are black and soft, remove them from the oven and let them cool for 20 to 30 minutes.

7. For chocolate chip cookies with the perfect texture

First, always chill the dough prior to baking (one hour is good; overnight is better). Second, when you remove the cookies from the oven, bang the pan straight down on the stove to force the cookies to settle.

8. Keep brown sugar from going hard

Throw a piece of bread into the container. The bread magically keeps the sugar soft and never gets moldy or gross.

9. Soften butter in the microwave 
Most baking recipes call for butter softened to room temperature . Always use POWER LEVEL TWO, and start with 8 to 10 seconds. Flip the butter over and then, on POWER LEVEL TWO, do another five seconds or so.

10. Make homemade brown sugar
just process some plain old sugar with molasses.

Finished!

These baking hacks will make baking so much easier, you may want to bake all the time – Have you used these baking hacks yet?

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Article & Photo Source:Cosmopolitan