Baking Day Word Search

About this puzzle

A baking day starts with the basic ingredients — flour, butter, sugar, yeast, baking soda, vanilla — moves through the work of whisking, kneading and rolling, and ends with something from the oven: a loaf of sourdough, a tray of cupcakes, a bowl of frosting waiting to be spread. It is a good list for a cooking club or a classroom lesson on measuring and following steps.

The default layout is Medium on a 13×13 grid. Easy, Medium and Hard each use their own checked layout of the same words, and every one can be printed in standard or large print on US Letter or A4.

Word notes

Flour

Most flour is ground wheat; bread flour has more protein, which helps build the stretchy gluten that traps gas.

Yeast

A living fungus that feeds on sugars and releases carbon dioxide, which makes bread dough rise.

Whisk

A tool of looped wires that beats air into eggs or cream and smooths out lumps.

Knead

To press and fold dough so it becomes stretchy.

Sourdough

Bread raised by a starter of wild yeast and bacteria.

Baking Soda

Sodium bicarbonate; it reacts with acids such as buttermilk or yogurt to make cakes and cookies rise.

Try this after the puzzle

Write a simple recipe together using at least six words from the list, in the right order: ingredients first, then the steps. If you can bake, make the recipe and tick off each word as you use the ingredient or tool. For younger children, sort the words into "things we use" and "things we do".

All 14 words

Flour · Butter · Sugar · Yeast · Dough · Whisk · Oven · Knead · Rolling Pin · Frosting · Vanilla · Sourdough · Baking Soda · Cupcake