1. Flour

Most of the time the only flour you’ll really need is All-Purpose Flour; also known as AP Flour. There is a bunch of other flour out their like pastry, bread, and cake flour to name a few. You can also make certain flours is you have the right ingredients.

2. Sugar

The top three sugar you need is white, brown and confectioner (Powder) sugar. A majority of the time you will only be using white and brown sugar. Confectioner sugar is mostly saved as a garnish to sift on top but you also use this for buttercream frosting.

3. Salt

Using salt in your baked good don’t only enhance the flavor but also help enhance other flavors you may not notice. When you add salt in bread, it helps control the fermentation rate of yeast.

4. Vanilla Extract

I love adding vanilla extract to everything that needs flavor and mostly that’s what vanilla extract is used in; everything. All your flavor comes from extracts their only there for the flavoring factor.

5. Baking Powder

Baking powder is a leavening agent used in baked goods. This will help rise your baked good as well keep its structure.

6. Baking Soda

Baking soda is the reaction to the wet ingredients. The air bubbles created by the reaction helps the baking powder to give the baked good its height.

7. Oil

Using Oil helps with texture and moisture. If you feel as if a cake or muffins were too dry, look at what you use for oil. Sometimes you either use the wrong type or not enough.

8. Chocolate Chips

In my house, I always have chocolate chips on standby. Whether you got to make a dessert for an event or just want chocolate chip cookies. You can add these in cakes, cupcakes, muffins, bread, and cheesecake.

9. Parchment Paper

When I first started to learn to bake in high school that’s when I found out about the wonders of parchment paper. I use to spray my pans with vegetable oil, but I found when that when I did these the sides of my cake would feel weird. Whereas parchment paper I can get the picture perfect phot without the look of oil on the side of my cake.

10. Cupcake Liners

Just like parchment paper, cupcake liners are used the same way. I like to use this two different way; either by lining a muffin pan or when I do large batches I’ll set them up on a cookie sheet.