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There are few kitchen tasks as deceptively tricky as lining a baking pan with parchment paper. Whether you typically try to cut it down to the perfect size, just smoosh it in, crumple it up, or create ...

Whether you're baking a cake or broiling a delicious piece of salmon, it makes sense to cover up your baking pan to save yourself from the hard work of scrubbing the pan clean. While lining your ...

The process of making a layer cake—gathering and mixing ingredients, cracking eggs, and heating the oven—often seems simple until you get to the line in the recipe that says line pans with parchment.” ...

I have seen recipes that call for buttering or greasing a cake pan, then placing parchment paper on top and then buttering the parchment. What is the point of buttering the bottom of the pan? For that ...