noun / -ing form · informal
baking
/ˈbeɪkɪŋ/BAK·ing
Making bread, cakes or pastries in an oven; the activity of cooking baked goods
Examples
“I took up baking during lockdown and now I make sourdough most weekends.”
“Her baking is famous among neighbours — she always brings cakes to meetings.”
“In Part 1 I mentioned baking as my favourite hobby because it's relaxing.”
Band 8 sentence
“I find baking therapeutic: following a recipe and watching dough rise gives me a real sense of achievement.”
Collocations
- baking bread / baking cakes
- go into baking
- baking class
Word family
Common mistakes
I enjoy to bake cakes.→I enjoy baking cakes.
She do baking every weekend.→She bakes every weekend. / She does some baking every weekend.
Say it for a higher band
5cooking→6making cakes→7+baking
Synonyms
pastry-making
Easily confused
cooking
“I enjoy baking because it requires precise measurements, unlike most cooking.”
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