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Raise the Bar (& Your Baking) With These New Five Two Goods

The secret ingredient in every one of our Five Two products has always been our community. Using your input and reviews, we design the ultimate tools, and that goes for our latest drop of bakeware and barware. From easy-release loaf pans to brass bottle stoppers, these game-changing goods will help make the holidays celebratory and sweet, but they’ll be just as pretty, practical, and perfect for hosting in the new year, too. Give your home bar and baking a refresh—or surprise a special host—with one of these community-inspired items.

Five Two Bakeware

Let us guess: You’ve been baking up a storm this season, and there’s at least one old, warped pan you’d like to remove from heavy rotation. Enter our all-new bakeware. Their two-toned design—pretty blue nonstick enamel inside, even-heating aluminized steel outside—means they travel from oven to table seamlessly and guarantee easy releases and cleaning. Add essentials like platinum-grade silicone mats and cooling racks to our sheet pans, or order as a set, and make it even easier to go from baking cookies to sliding a sheet-pan dinner into the oven.

20 Baking Tools for the Perfect Summer Pies & Cobblers

We talk a lot about summer cooking here at Food52. Once the temperatures get high enough to warrant regular backyard dining, we can’t help but focus on summer salads, grill-friendly recipes, and cocktails you’ll want to sip on under the sun. However, w…

We talk a lot about summer cooking here at Food52. Once the temperatures get high enough to warrant regular backyard dining, we can't help but focus on summer salads, grill-friendly recipes, and cocktails you'll want to sip on under the sun. However, we can't ignore summertime baking staples, either.

In the same way we think of juicy heirloom tomatoes and bubbly spritzes from June through Labor Day, we also think of our favorite warm-weather cakes, pies, and cobblers. Peach, key lime, coconut, strawberry and rhubarb...the list truly could go on, and on, and on, but we'll try our best to spare you an endless scroll. Instead, we'll keep things nice and simple: Here are 20 baking tools and accessories to help you make the perfect summer dessert, whatever that might be (plus a couple of our favorite recipes, too).

10 Eco-Conscious Swaps to Help Cut Back on Baking Waste

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Let’s be real: There’s more to an eco-conscious kitchen than organic p…

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Let’s be real: There’s more to an eco-conscious kitchen than organic produce and free-range eggs. (Though don’t get me wrong, those are super crucial, too.) It’s also important to think about your tools—especially when it comes to those baking accessories. I might’ve spent my teenage years mastering the almighty cookie cake—just ask my friends!— but it wasn’t until I recently bought a stand mixer and upped my baking cadence that I noticed how much waste making something sweet and delicious creates. As someone who tries to shop sustainably, the thought of a trash can stuffed with superfluous parchment paper and muffin liners is, well, a bummer. (If you clicked on this story, I have a feeling you’re right there with me.)

Tools of the Trade: A Pastry Pro’s 8 Home Baking Essentials

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Pippa Allen…

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Pippa Allen began baking to avoid being boring. “I was working my first full-time job after college and terribly scared of becoming someone whose only hobby became hanging out with their friends and working out,” she said. “I grew up cooking, but I really wasn't much of a baker—I'm not very good at following directions and doing math—so baking was never really for me, but I needed a challenge.” Little did she know, she’d soon be kneading dough full-time.

21 Baking Tools for Your Favorite Chocolate Desserts & Beyond

This article is a part of Chocolate Week—seven days of recipes and stories, all chocolate—presented by our friends at Guittard. A fifth-generation family business, Guittard has been crafting an array of chocolate offerings (from top-quality baking chip…

The store aisles in February are always the same: overflowing with pink and red stuffed animals, flashing heart-shaped trinkets, and rows of chocolate boxes. You walk down the aisles of your drug store or grocery and you’re face to face with chocolate, heart-shaped marshmallows, bonbons, truffles, and any seasonal candy that just might help you say I love you.