The Bake Junction

Sunday evening well spent baking and devouring this 3-in-1 pizza 😀

An important reason to learn to bake breads at home! You can customize your breads - just like this fully loaded sourdough pizza with 3 flavours on 1 pizza.

Slow and Steady Wins the Race!

Wanted to share a message I received from one of my sourdough workshop students ( swipe left) and some of my thoughts regarding the same.

Whenever I take Basic Sourdough baking workshops, students ask me why I teach breads with Maida/All-Purpose/white flour and not with Wholewheat flour.

My answer always  is that as this is a basic class I expect students to be totally new to sourdough baking and most of the times even bread baking. For the beginner, baking bread with Maida or white flour is like learning the ABCs before you learn to Read and write.

I cannot stress enough that Bread Baking is all about understanding the process and technique and it is much easier to understand this when you bake with Maida/All-purpose/white flour. Once you master this process you can (and you should) easily move on to bake any kind of bread with any flour you wish to!

》Some understand this, accept my advise, learn and master the bread baking process and then move on to baking with whole grains/millets and succeed- Like my student has done (swipe left to see her message)...so proud to see her progress!

》Some get upset and do not join the class. Their loss!

》Some try to bake with wholegrains right from their first bread after the class. While a few are resilient and succeed , majority just fail and give up because they have not mastered the process first.

I completely agree that the entire goal behind baking bread from home is one should be able to make healthier breads with wholegrains. I am just saying that this needs some patience and practice. Learn your ABCs first - understand the process and slowly achieve your goal. Afterall slow and steady wins the race!!

(PS: Of course if someone is already familiar with bread baking process I make an exception and allow them to make wholewheat sourdough in the class.)

Wishing everyone a Happy & Colourful Holi!

What a beauty! Don't you agree 🙂🙃

Happy Sourdough Sunday!!

Baking sourdough bread give me so much joy ❤️.....and when it turns out looking this great it is a cherry on the cake😍

Baking bread - especially sourdough is about the process and not a recipe. I always tell my students what I was taught - 'Listen to your dough' ....your dough tells you what it wants, how it is going to turn out. As a beginner it may be difficult to understand what this means, but as you practice and put your soul into the process you will understand this. And only when you start understanding the "dough language" you have truly mastered this art 😊

In picture a garlic and herbs sourdough bread. No crumbshot as it went out to a friend.

Wishing all our Patrons, Followers and Well-Wishers a very Happy 2024!!

It was an Awesome 2023 at The Bake Junction where we had a lot of firsts
* Launched our first hands-on sourdough workshop post covid and went on to do 3 workshops last year meeting a bunch of awesome enthusiastic bakers
* Published our first book - Sourdough Baking Simplified ( looking forward to many more :-))
* Conducted innumerable first time baking trials on our Gluten-free bakes (hoping to launch our workshop this year)

Finally ended 2023 on a high note baking our popular Christmas Plum Cakes. Thanks for loving them so much!

Looking forward to making 2024 even more sweet with many more awesome bakes and workshops!

It was a Marathon baking over the last few weeks!! Managed to click a few pics before final deliveries went out!

And this is not all...the marathon continues to the end of the year with some more deliveries to be made for the 31st!

But for now it is time to put up my feet, relax and enjoy the festivities!

Merry Christmas everyone! May Santa fulfill all your wishes🌲☃️🎅

Our Christmas plum cake - deliciousness in every bite!!

Time to book your order for our delicious Christmas Plum Cake!!

Deliciousness and full of dried fruit in every bite!

Delivery taken for Pune and Mumbai.

Wishing all our Patrons, Well-Wishers, Students and Followers a very Happy Diwali !

May this Diwali bring you good health and happiness!