If you're scared to start baking, don't be! There are a ton of apps that can help you learn how to bake pretty much anything, even if you don't have any experience.
Whether you just want to learn how to make a great cake for someone's birthday or you want to master the fine art of bread baking, there's an app to help you out. Check out these six Android apps that will help you become a better baker with delicious results.
1. Bread Recipes
If you want to learn bread making, this is the app for you. Whether you want to bake the perfect sandwich bread or the fluffiest feather bread rolls, Bread Recipes has you covered.
There are a ton of great recipes on the front page that are recommended specifically for you. When you first open the app, you'll see some of the most popular recipes. After you've made a few and liked them, you'll start to see personalized recommendations.
One of the best features of Bread Recipes is the Smart Recipe Finder. If there are a few ingredients in your pantry that you need to use up, you can select them from a list and the app will find recipes with those specific ingredients in them. This feature will help you reduce your food waste and inspire you to combine ingredients you may not have thought to use.
The only in-app purchase is a monthly or yearly subscription to remove ads.
Download: Bread Recipes (Free)
2. All Baking Recipes
All Baking Recipes is a helpful app for anyone who doesn't know much about baking yet. Although the app needs a bit of a face lift in places, the recipes it offers are fantastic. Through this app, you can learn about all different types of cakes and exactly how to make them. The ingredients list and steps to make each recipe are simple and easy to follow.
Also, you can post comments on each uploaded recipe. So if someone else has made the recipe and tweaked it a little to make it better or if someone really enjoyed a recipe, you can usually find that information in the comments.
Download: All Baking Recipes (Free)
3. Cupful
Cupful is a handy unit converting app that will help you immensely in the kitchen. Baking is a science, so being precise is key. That's where Cupful comes in.
Baking recipes will often have cup measurements, even though gram measurements are better for baking. With the Cupful app, as an example, you can easily convert 2 cups of all-purpose flour into 280 grams. This way, your recipe is more precise and your finished product will turn out much better.
There are over 500 different ingredients that you can convert from volume to weight and vice versa. And although you will need a scale, measuring by weight instead of volume means less clean up and faster measuring.
Download: Cupful (Free)
4. Desserts
The Desserts app comes with a mix of easier recipes and more advanced recipes. There are a few different ways to filter recipes on this app, depending on your dietary preferences and where you want to start with your baking journey.
You can choose to see all recipes or you can filter by vegan, vegetarian, or non-vegetarian diets. You can also filter recipes by cooking type, including boil, bake, steam, knead, and fry. So if you only want to see recipes that involve baking in the beginning, you can easily do that. Then, once your baking skills improve, you can check out the recipes that involve kneading or frying.
Similar to the Bread Recipes app, you can also search for recipes that use certain ingredients. Under the Cook With tab, you can type in any ingredient and find the recipes that include it. Once you find a recipe you want to make, you can click on the plus sign next to each ingredient to add it to your shopping list.
Plus, if you ever get the urge to create your own recipe, you can contribute to the app and share your recipe with the community.
Download: Desserts (Free)
5. Tasty
Tasty is great for both aspiring bakers and cooks. The app is super easy to interact with and navigate. If all you want to explore on the Tasty app is desserts recipes, there are a ton to choose from. Or if you want to create meals for the whole day from breakfast through dessert, you can do that too.
Each recipe comes with an ingredients list, easy to read preparation steps, and a step-by-step mode that will show short videos to help you with the recipe. With the extra help of the videos, it'll be difficult to mess up a recipe.
Plus, the Tasty app has quite a few useful filters. First, you can set your dietary preference to be vegetarian if you don't eat meat; every recipe that shows up for you will be vegetarian if you select this filter. Then, you can sort through recipes further by difficulty, meal type, occasion, more diet options, or cuisine.
Download: Tasty (Free)
6. Cake and Baking Recipes
There are so many amazing recipes to choose from in this app. There's a section for each style of recipe, like cakes, pies, cupcakes, cheesecakes, and cookies. So it's easy for you to pick a section that appeals to you and sounds easy enough to start with.
Once you click on a recipe, you'll see the ingredients and the directions. If you look through the ingredients list and see an item you don't have, you can click the open circle to the left of it to add it to your shopping list.
Then, after you make the recipe, you can come back to rate it and mark it as cooked. Marking recipes as cooked can be useful if you want to make as many new recipes as you can so that you don't end up remaking the same thing.
The only in-app purchase is for removing the ads. You can also remove ads each day by watching a short video.
Download: Cake and Baking Recipes (Free)
Start Your Baking Journey Today
With any or all of these Android apps, you're set to be a baking pro in no time. Baking is a finicky science, but with enough practice and determination, you can bake delicious cupcakes and the perfect loaf of bread.
After you feel comfortable with these introductory recipes, you may want to explore a few other sources of baking inspiration. There are plenty of baking websites and blogs out there that are constantly adding new recipes to their already large repertoire.