18 at-home baking hacks for when you're missing ingredients or tools

Samantha GrindellMay 19, 2020, 21:48 IST

Baking substitutes and hacks can help when you're missing supplies or tools.Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock

Unlike cooking, baking requires you to follow recipes exactly, with even a tablespoon of butter making a huge difference in taste.
But there are actually a lot of common substitutes and baking hacks you can make use of if you're out of an ingredient or tool and can't run out to the store for supplies.
Yogurt, applesauce, and even avocados can replace common baking ingredients, and you can use a wine bottle as a rolling pin in a pinch.

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You can make yeast at home.

You don't have to buy yeast. Shutterstock

You can make your own buttermilk, or use yogurt as a replacement.

You can recreate buttermilk. Bonita Cooke/Getty Images

Greek yogurt can also act as a substitute for sour cream.

Greek yogurt is a common substitute. goodmoments/Shutterstock

You can bake bananas to ripen them more quickly.

You can ripen bananas. Olaf Schulz/Shutterstock

Running out of cooking oil isn't the end of the world.

Applesauce can work as a substitute for oil. Oksana Mizina/Shutterstock

A wine bottle can be a rolling pin in a pinch.

You can flatten dough with a wine bottle. gorodisskij/Getty Images

You don't need yeast to make certain kinds of bread.

Yeast isn't always necessary. Reuters

Tinfoil can make your pans smaller if you don't own a variety.

Tinfoil can make pans smaller. Ulker/YouTube

There are multiple ingredients that can act as a substitute for eggs.

You don't need eggs. BlacKCatPRO/Shutterstock

A slice of bread can prevent your brown sugar from going hard.

Bread stops brown sugar from clumping. Pat Wellenbach/AP

Gluten-free oats can become flour.

Oats can become flour. Foxys forest manufacture via Getty Images

You can make powdered sugar at home.

Powdered sugar can be made at home. Natalia Smirnova/Getty Images

And brown sugar is also really easy to make yourself.

You can make brown sugar. Martin Barraud/Getty Images

You don't need special tools to make a pretty pie crust.

You don't need a pastry cutter. Matthew Mead/AP

You can replace butter with avocados.

Avocados are helpful for baking. NatashaPhoto/Shutterstock

A mason jar might be your new best friend if your whisk breaks.

Mason jars can help you mix things. JeniFoto/Shutterstock

Combine Jell-O powder with white frosting if you're out of food coloring.

Jell-O powder is a substitute for food coloring. Shutterstock

You can use dental floss to make a layered cake.

Floss can create cake layers. Shutterstock

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