BAKING

SAN ANTONIO – There’s a pot o’ gold on every one of these cupcakes! Allie Olguin with Cakes by Tori Elizabeth shows us how to make cute St. Patrick’s Day-themed cupcakes with things you might already have at home. When you order from Cakes by Tori Elizabeth, you’re supporting a local business. Olguin’s husband does the baking and she does the decorating. For more information, check out her Instagram page, and there’s still a few minutes to enter her St. Paddy’s cake giveaway!

SAN ANTONIO – With everyone’s Halloween pivoting towards a more creative at-home vibe this year, here’s a simple recipe you can make this weekend courtesy of young chef, Neko Masi. The national recognition solidified her passion for culinary arts and she continues to dazzle us with her creative culinary ideas. Young chef, Neko Masi, during one of her stops at the SA Live studio. (KSAT-12)For Halloween, she shows us how to turn a pan of brownies into a spooky graveyard in the video above. It’s a Halloween of an idea.

When it comes to cookies, they’re all pretty good, but they were not all created equally.

There is no better way to celebrate the red, white and blue with red, white and blueberries, right?

Share how youre paying it forward to your community on the SA Live Facebook page. Mike has a few tricks up his sleeve with a little help from The Magicians Agency Theatre. This 8-year-old foodie will knock your socks off with a little help from Cakes Couture. SA Live airs weekdays at 1 p.m. on KSAT 12. Stream the show anytime from the KSAT TV app on Roku, Fire Stick, your smart TV or your smartphone.

No, it’s just not you -- it seems that everyone is making banana bread during quarantine, and if you haven’t done so already, it’s time to jump on the bandwagon. Banana bread is really more of a cake than a bread, but regardless, it’s the perfect thing to make if you’re wanting to dip your toes into the wonderful world of baking bread. Most bread recipes are generally the same, but we searched the internet high and low to find the easiest-looking banana bread recipes, so you can impress your friends and family with your new-found baking skills. This is another easy banana bread recipe. It combines two of the greatest breads that have ever existed: cinnamon swirl bread, and obviously, banana bread.

Once you execute one of these simple recipes, we guarantee you’ll be hooked on making your own bread. It’s a perfect bread to make for the first time if you’ve never done it, and the best part is that you don’t have to knead the dough, which can be one of the most difficult things about making homemade bread. Once you make this bread, you’ll wonder why you ever brought the pre-sliced kind from a grocery store. This recipe does require you to knead the bread, but eventually you’re going to have to do it, so this is a great, simple recipe to introduce you to the task. Once you bake your way through these three recipes, we have a feeling you’ll be able to conquer any future bread recipe you want to try.