🧁 Bread rises because of yeast burps. Seriously! 🫧🧁 A "pinch" is about 1/16 of a teaspoon. 🥄🧁 Astronauts baked cookies in space in 2019! 🚀🧁 Vanilla comes from an orchid flower. 🌸🧁 In the Netherlands, kids eat sprinkles on toast for breakfast. 🍞🧁 Honey can stay good for thousands of years. 🫙🧁 Cold butter = flaky pastry. Soft butter = fluffy cake. 🥛🧁 Egg whites can grow up to 8 times bigger when whipped! 🥚🧁 Chocolate melts at about body temperature. That’s why it melts in your mouth! 🍫🧁 Ancient Egyptians baked bread over 5,000 years ago. 📜🧁 Sweden has a whole holiday just for cinnamon buns! 🇸🇪🧁 Salt makes sweet things taste even sweeter. 🧂🧁 The world’s biggest cupcake weighed over 1,200 pounds! 🧁🧁 Sifted flour looks just like snow. ❄️🧁 Opening the oven too early can make a cake sink. 🕳️🧁 Bread rises because of yeast burps. Seriously! 🫧🧁 A "pinch" is about 1/16 of a teaspoon. 🥄🧁 Astronauts baked cookies in space in 2019! 🚀🧁 Vanilla comes from an orchid flower. 🌸🧁 In the Netherlands, kids eat sprinkles on toast for breakfast. 🍞🧁 Honey can stay good for thousands of years. 🫙🧁 Cold butter = flaky pastry. Soft butter = fluffy cake. 🥛🧁 Egg whites can grow up to 8 times bigger when whipped! 🥚🧁 Chocolate melts at about body temperature. That’s why it melts in your mouth! 🍫🧁 Ancient Egyptians baked bread over 5,000 years ago. 📜🧁 Sweden has a whole holiday just for cinnamon buns! 🇸🇪🧁 Salt makes sweet things taste even sweeter. 🧂🧁 The world’s biggest cupcake weighed over 1,200 pounds! 🧁🧁 Sifted flour looks just like snow. ❄️🧁 Opening the oven too early can make a cake sink. 🕳️
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Baking Academy · Lesson 9
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Amazing Baking Facts

Get ready to say "No WAY!" These true baking facts are perfect for show-and-tell.

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Ancient bakers

People in ancient Egypt were baking bread over 5,000 years ago. Some loaves were even found in tombs!

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The cupcake name

Cupcakes might be named after being baked in cups, or because the recipes were measured in cups: 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, 4 eggs!

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Space snacks

Astronauts baked the first cookies in space in 2019 on the International Space Station. They took 2 hours to bake instead of 20 minutes!

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Honey never spoils

Honey can last thousands of years. Archaeologists have found honey in ancient tombs that was still good.

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Birthday cake origins

Kids in Germany in the 1700s had "Kinderfest" birthday cakes with candles, one for each year plus one "light of life" candle.

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Pretzel prayers

Legend says pretzels were invented by monks who shaped dough to look like arms crossed in prayer.

🎟️ Passport quiz

Where were the first cookies baked in space?