Some cooking techniques and cooking terms explained

Baking

Baking is the technique of prolonged cooking of food by dry heat acting by convection,normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones. It is primarily used for the preparation of bread, cakes, pastries and pies, tarts, quiches, and cookies. It is also used for the preparation of baked potatoes, baked apples, baked beans, some pasta dishes such as lasagna, and various other foods, such as the pretzel.

A good book on baking see:

Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook

Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook presents the doyenne of the Better Way in tip-top form. Or rather, it offers the work of a dedicated team who, under Stewart's stewardship, has devised over 200 baking recipes for both savory and sweet treats, ranging from the traditional likes of buttermilk biscuits, gingersnaps, blueberry pie, bagels, and chocolate angel food cake, to the more novel pleasures of Sausage and Feta Hand Pies, Cherry Fragipane Gallete, Carrot-Ginger Cupcakes, and even the buttery-sugary to-die-for yeasted pastry called kouign amans. Also present and accounted-for are Stewartian showpieces like Mocha-Pistachio Wedding Cake.

For some  Baking & Serving Sets please see this page here from Amazon.com