Must-Have Baking Ingredients for Holiday Cookie Recipes

There are certain cookie recipes that are staples in a baker's kitchen. Check the freshness and quality of these holiday cookie recipe essentials before baking season begins. Stale or tasteless baking ingredients make for stale and boring holiday cookies. Replace what needs to be replaced, and purchase a few new ingredients to make the best holiday cookies that you can.

Must Have Cheap Baking Ingredients for Holiday Cookie Recipes

White All-Purpose Flour

Replace your bag of white flour from last year with a fresh bag of white all-purpose flour, for the best-tasting cookies on the block. The white flour is not the healthiest flour you can buy, but it does bake quite well. If you want to buy white flour that is a little healthier, purchase the non-bleached version for this year's holiday cookie recipes.

Nothing is worse than cookies made with stale or old flour. Any unopened bag of flour may have a stale scent to it. To keep flour fresh and full of grain moths by placing one large Bay leaf into your flour after it is open. Store unused flour in a canister, marking the date in some way.

If rolled sugar cookies or homemade pie crust are on your holiday baking list, you may consider purchasing two bags of flour. If you make cookies to give as gifts, the second bag of flour will come in handy.

Baking Soda

To all would-be-bakers out there, baking soda and baking powder are not interchangeable. If you mix these up, or just substitute one for the other, you are asking for an unsuccessful holiday cookie recipe.

Purchase three boxes of cheap baking soda. Keep one for baking, and put one in your freezer and one in your refrigerator. The holidays are a good time to add a baking soda box to your refrigerator, because this usually cheap item can usually be found on sale.

Baking soda is essential to many holiday cookie recipes.

Baking Powder

Have you ever had a holiday or other cookie baked with baking soda instead of baking powder? It just does not bake the same, or taste the same. Many tasty recipes for baked goods like sugar cookies require both.

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