Parchment paper why use it

Content Area 1. Baking paper, parchment paper, bakery paper, waxed paper, cooking paper, butter paper — what are these all about? Some examples of those include: Waxed paper or wax paper as it is also called actually has wax on it, so it should not be used in the oven. NOTE: Baking paper can be used in most applications that call for wax paper as a non-stick surface.

However, the reverse is not true, as using wax paper may cause smoke in the oven and affect taste. Butter paper sometimes called as sandwich paper does not have a non-stick surface, so it should not be used for baking, but instead e.

Easy cookie decorating clean up: Lay down parchment on your counter before frosting and decorating cookies. In the end, you can easily scoop up all the sprinkles and mess, and toss in the garbage. Rolling out dough: From pie crusts to sugar cookies, roll your dough between two sheets of lightly floured parchment paper!

Use the same sheets to roll dough evenly for your entire recipe. Then gather up and toss the mess when done! Transferring cookies to and from a baking sheet: If you line your baking sheet with parchment, you can easily slide the entire tray of cookies directly onto your cooling rack, once they are out of the oven.

Others tend to have hot and cool areas that result in baking issues. Using parchment paper creates a thin airy layer between the baking sheet and the paper that helps regulate the temperature, and neutralize hot spots. Parchment paper gives cookie dough something to hold on to, for fuller cookies that do not to spread too much. When cookies are thicker, they tend to be softer in the middle as well. Cookies baked on parchment paper slide right off the baking sheets.

Cake pans lined with parchment allow the cakes to flip easily out of pans, without clinging to the bottom. Ever wonder why brownies and bars in photos look so perfect, yet yours are squashed or messy around the edges?

If you line pans with parchment before baking, you can easily lift the entire sheet of treats out of the pan by the edges of the paper.

This enables neat straight cuts, without the sides of the pan getting in the way. Try it with casseroles as well! Wiping the knife with a wet paper towels also keeps the brownie edges clean! Hate scrubbing burnt-on crusty bits off large pans and baking sheets? Me too. Lining pans with parchment paper makes cleanup a breeze!