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Cooking / Baking Tips & Tricks

A collection of informative posts around cooking and baking tips and tricks.

Want to understand the science behind baking or everyday cooking tips? Is caster sugar the same as granulated sugar?,  How do you spatchcock a chicken? or maybe you just want theperfect pizza base recipe.

All these questions and more will be answered in a series of posts about baking that you'll find right here.

Close up of a pavlova toppedw with whipped cream and fruit on a wooden platter

How To Make Perfect Pavlova

A glass bowl filled with chcolate fudge frosting

Chocolate Fudge Frosting

Birdseye view of a pastry tart shell on a floured worktop with a grey tea towel and rolling pin nearby.

How To Make Shortcrust Pastry

A piece of baking paper with yellow custard powder piled on top

How to Make Custard Powder

Caramel sauce being poured from a saucepan into a glass jar. Another sits behind

Homemade Quick Caramel Sauce

A pizza topped with tomato paste, ham, tomato and mozzarella.

Easy Homemade Pizza Dough

2 chocolate chip brownies stacked on top of one another

How To Make Perfect Brownies

A whole chicken that has been butterflied and is ready to grill

How to Butterfly a Whole Chicken

Close up shot of a white bowl of frozen berries

Baking with Frozen Fruit

A graphic showing 8 different types of sugar in bowls

Common Types of Sugar in Baking (Baking Essentials)

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Hey there and welcome to Sugar Salt Magic. I'm a self-taught home baker and cook passionate about making delicious food from scratch to share with family and friends. I want to give home cooks the confidence to get in the kitchen and create delicious recipes. Marie xx Read More…

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HI! I’M MARIE …

…and I’m the recipe developer, cook, photographer, and author behind Sugar Salt Magic. I’m also mum to 3 amazing fur babies and wife to the most amazing man in the world. Life is good. I love food and creating easy (mainly sweet) recipes that I can share with you. I’d love you to join along in my journey so sit back, relax and have a look around for some yum that you can feed your friends and family with. Read More…

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