Okay. So, if you’ve gotten this far, you really want to make some bread. Well, good for you, I hope this will work for ya. Below is the recipe, here is the explanation. First. Lets analyze Yeast, especially the Active Dry Yeast used here. Yeast, is a living organism as said by the Science of...

Scientific Content of the Ingredients: The ingredients that this recipe calls for are cream cheese, eggs, sugar, salt, chocolate chips, flour, cocoa, baking soda, water, vinegar, vegetable oil, and vanilla. For some of the ingredients, their purpose is flavor, like vanilla, and salt. Others, work behind the scenes in the chemistry aspects of it, to...

Introduction: Have you ever wondered why certain ingredients are in a recipe? What is the role of each ingredient? We are going to uncover what makes a GIANT sugar cookie perfect by looking into each ingredient’s effect. Scientific Content: What does each ingredient do? 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened to room temperature Purpose: To bind...

Making the perfect, fluffy, buttermilk pancakes involves much more chemistry than you might think! Here I will take a closer look at the science behind what makes these pancakes so yummy. First, lets look at the role each ingredients plays in the recipe: All-purpose flour is a starch. It helps to absorb the moisture from...

In this post we are going to talk about such a simple, but still very diverse thing as crepes. People say that they originated from France(Festa, 2019), but in this case it is hard to figure out the exact location. They are consumed all over the world in many different ways, people eat them with...

Introduction: A chocolate lava cake is known is for most like all other cakes, what makes it stand apart is the “molten” core where it gets the moniker of lava cake from. This cake is quick to make with only two steps that need to be done perfectly. Folding the chocolate and egg mix, and...

When I was six, my dad bought my mom a Betty Crocker’s Kids Cookbook for mother’s day with the idea that us kids, myself and three younger siblings, would cook one meal a month for her, by ourselves, as a treat. All these years later, the only recipe that has been touched in that book...

This recipe does not call for very many ingredients, but each one serves an important purpose beyond just adding flavor to the cookies.  Changing anything about this recipe, including the ingredients, the amount of an ingredient used, the order in which they are combined, or the baking temperature could result in a different or inferior...

Introduction: My goal of this blog is to focus on a simple brownie recipe and see how changing certain factors will affect the overall taste.  I choose to focus on brownies because it is a dessert that most people love and doesn’t require too many ingredients. Within this experiment, we will see chemistry present through...

Purposes of Ingredients All-Purpose Flour – Includes starch and gluten-forming properties which allows it to keep all of the ingredients together Sugar – Adds texture, and caramelizes which adds the ever-important sweetness to the cake Cocoa powder – Chocolate flavor Baking powder and baking soda – Leavening agents. These are used to release gases inside...