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Martha Bakes: Perfect Puff Pastry Episode

With Martha Bakes, discover Martha Stewart’s tips and techniques to create delectable baked goods. Be sure to check your local listings to see when the program will be airing in your area. Watch a Preview Known for its decadent, flaky layers, puff pastry is a chef’s secret weapon for anything from last minute hors d’oeuvres to impressive looking desserts. On today’s show, Martha shares three recipes including an irresistible raspberry mascarpone tart, saucisson en croûte that’s perfect for any hors d’oeuvres tray, and a tasty apple jalousie tart. Recipes so […]

Martha Bakes: Embellished Pies Episode

With Martha Bakes, discover Martha Stewart’s tips and techniques to create delectable baked goods. Be sure to check your local listings to see when the program will be airing in your area. Watch a Preview Everyone loves pies. They’re as American as, well, apple pie. Join Martha as she shares clever techniques for baking gorgeous pies including a woven blueberry lattice pie, an enticing petal-topped poached pear and cranberry pie, and a savory pie featuring a unique hot water crust. Pies reinvented with a decorative twist! This Week’s Recipe   […]

Martha Bakes: Frosted Cakes Episode

With Martha Bakes, discover Martha Stewart’s tips and techniques to create delectable baked goods. Be sure to check your local listings to see when the program will be airing in your area. Watch a Preview When you present a celebration cake, you want it to have a combination of great taste and a stunning presentation. On today’s show, Martha transforms one cake recipe into three dazzling frosted cakes: a colorful strawberry ombré cake, a zesty lemon mousse cake artfully piped with meringue, and a lofty berry layer cake covered in […]

Martha Bakes: Patterned Episode

With Martha Bakes, discover Martha Stewart’s tips and techniques to create delectable baked goods. Be sure to check your local listings to see when the program will be airing in your area. Watch a Preview Coming Soon On today’s show, Martha demonstrates how adding pattern to decorate your baked treats can really change the look, flavor, and color of cakes, cookies and tarts. She turns an ordinary cheesecake tart into an extraordinary dessert with the addition of apricot, creates a unique marbleized roulade using a simple technique, and introduces a […]

Season 5, Episode 1: Cake

Twelve new bakers don their aprons and head for the iconic tent in the heart of the British Countryside. Continue

Season Five Episodes

A new crop of amateur bakers invade the tent in pursuit of being named Star Baker for Season 5. Your favorite baking competition returns to PBS on June 22. Check local listings. Continue

Martha Bakes: French Cookies

With Martha Bakes, discover Martha Stewart’s tips and techniques to create delectable baked goods. Be sure to check your local listings to see when the program will be airing in your area.   Watch a Preview When it comes to baked goods, no one does it better than the French. Today on Martha Bakes, time-tested techniques in three renowned French cookies: papillons with their caramelized exteriors and flakey layers within, French meringues in a rainbow of colors and flavors, and perhaps the most popular cookie in France, sablés Bretons. This […]

Martha Bakes: Classic Italian Cookies

With Martha Bakes, discover Martha Stewart’s tips and techniques to create delectable baked goods. Be sure to check your local listings to see when the program will be airing in your area.   Watch a Preview In Italian, la dolce vita means the sweet life so it seems fitting that Italians eat cookies at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On today’s show, Martha shares three scrumptious recipes including Sicilian buccellati cookies filled with a delicious combination of pecans, figs, and raisins, Italian wafer cookies known as pizzelle, and the distinctive diamond-shaped […]

Martha Bakes: Cookies of the Netherlands

With Martha Bakes, discover Martha Stewart’s tips and techniques to create delectable baked goods. Be sure to check your local listings to see when the program will be airing in your area.   Watch a Preview For a country as small as the Netherlands, the Dutch have a huge variety of cookies. On today’s show, Martha shares three famous cookie recipes and how they got their unusual names: speculaas traditionally formed using carved wooden molds, stroopwafels made from two waffles sandwiched together with caramel, and buttery, crisp arnhemse meisjes, cookies […]