The American Pie Council
The American Pie Council is an organization committed to preserving America's pie heritage and promoting American's love affair with pies. Members exchange recipes and participate in contests. A good idea if you're really serious about your pies.
American Society of Baking
This is a professional society for people involved with wholesale or large-scale bakery production. There are some great biographies, a knowledge center, and much more.
Bakery-net.com
Baking news, professional formulas, classified ads, and forums for serious bakers.
Bakingshop.com
Need a wedding cake stand? Pastry tips or cake pans? How about a scooby doo candle? This is your site.
Baking and Baking Science
Really in-depth information from a retired baker about the science of baking.
Baking Bits
Nice collection of recipes for breads, pies, pastry, and more. There's also a message board and cookbook reviews.
Baking 911
A colorful site with lots of useful info. Not only are there tons of recipes, but there are online classes, baking science info, and a whole lot more.
Better Baking
Marcy Goldman's magazine for bakers. You'll have to subscribe to get the recipes, but there's some interesting stuff on here anyway.
Bread.com
Company website for Integrated Bakery Resources. They have info about their brands (including Oregon Bread, Oregon Trail, and Simple Grains), grain info, and a game called Breadtris (like Tetris, but with bread).
The Bread Baker's Guild of America
A professional group whose goal is to provide education in, and foster the growth of, artisan baking and the production of high quality bread products.
Bread Recipe Archive
Big collection of traditional and bread machine recipes.
Bread World
This is a site for Fleischman's Yeast. There are lots of bread recipes sorted by skill and whether or not you use a bread machine.
Cake Mix Doctor
Anne Byrn has some great strategies for making cake mixes into elaborate desserts. The web site has her book for sale plus some recipes, a newsletter, and a message board.
Candy USA
Excellent site to get your candy education. Learn about the history of candy corn, design a virtual jack-o-lantern, or get a recipe for a candy bar pie.
Chocolate.com
Gifts, truffles, cookies, candy, and brownies. Sort by price and check out the latest in chocolate news.
Chocolocate: The Chocolate Lover's Page
Over 1175 chocolate web sites from around the world, searchable by category, state, and country.
Christmas Cookies
Everything you would ever want to know about making Christmas cookies.
The Cookie Tin
An online cookie cookbook featuring cookies from all over the world as well as help with techniques and ingredients.
The French Pastry Chef
Formulas with high quality pictures. Some great looking stuff here, and it's ranked according to skill level.
Home Baking
A really cool site dedicated to educating and helping people grow as home bakers. Recipes, educator tools, a glossary, and baking tips.
Joy of Baking
Huge recipe index with quality pictures, ingredient substitution tables, ingredient info, a glossary, and conversion charts.
King Arthur Flour
Take the flour quiz, take an online class, and learn more about baking.
Modern Baking
Web site for the magazine that keeps professional bakers current.
Old Fashioned Candy
Gifts for candy lovers dating back all the way to the 1950's. Baskets of era-related candy will be a unique and original gift.
Pastry Chef Central
Professional tools and ingredients for the professional or aspiring pastry chef. There are also some recipes and you can ask a Pastry Chef a question.
Pastry Profiles
A web site for pastry professionals that includes photos, competition results, and membership info.
Pastry Wiz
Really cool site for the artist in you. Lots of quality instructions here, and lots of good themes.
Tasty Pastry Shoppe
Famous New York pastry shop with Italian pastries, cakes, cookies, and desserts. Lots of good mail order stuff and lots of diabetic options.
Virtual Chocolate
Chocolate e-cards, wallpaper, chocolate muses, and a chocolate locator. All put together by some real chocolate lovers.
Wilton
Great site for cake decorating supplies, techniques, forums, and much more.
