Baking Spices and Extracts
Common baking spices like cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, and ginger are essential for great baking and flavorful desserts. Other sweet spices and fruit flavorings can be used to mix up delectable cakes, cookies, desserts, and pies. Not just for seasonal baking, this selection of essential baking spices, sugars, and pure extracts will keep you well-stocked any time you're craving sugar, or want to bake up a sweet treat. Try our multiple different varieties of cinnamon, vanilla, and cocoa.
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The flavors of our pumpkin spice include cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and cloves, making it perfect for fall baking and autumnal savory dishes. If ...
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What are the most used baking spices?
Cinnamon is probably the most commonly used baking spice. You'll probably also want to have cocoa powder, vanilla, ginger, and nutmeg on hand. Other baking spices include allspice, cloves, and other extract flavors.
How do I find the best extracts?
For the best baking extracts, it's important they're bake-proof & can withstand high temperatures for baking, so that they retain their flavor even after being in the oven.
What is baking spice?
Baking spice is a blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and ginger. To make a simple Baking Spice blend, combine 2 Tbsp cinnamon with 1 Tbsp nutmeg, 1 1/2 tsp allspice and ginger.
What spices are good in cookies?
It depends on the cookie! Definitely vanilla extract. If you want to make gingersnaps, you have to have ground ginger. For snickerdoodle cookies, you'll need cinnamon.
What spices are used in cakes?
The most commonly used spices when making a cake are vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cocoa powder -- or try baking with a different flavor like butterscotch, almond, maple, or lavender extract.