Check Out My Organized Baking Closet

Small Baking Closet

The Closet When Opened

Yesterday, I was baking and I couldn't find my small fondant rolling pin.  I had my regular rolling pin but I wanted to use this one for cookie dough rolling.  I looked in my baking closet and it was no where to be seen.  I finished baking, cleaned the kitchen and decided, that since the kiddos were outside with their dad, that I was going to tackle reorganizing my baking closet. 

I think that this closet was originally designed to be a broom closet.  Since our basement is unfinished and there were already broom and mop hooks in a small basement stairwell alcove, we put shelves in this closet instead.  A long time ago it was used to organize the Crock-pots, Tupperware and Pyrex type dishes.  Then, I had the inspiration to make it my baking closet.  It is handy to have all of those things that you usually only need when baking in 1 spot.

After I took everything out and organized, I did find the small fondant rolling pin!

This closet has 4 shelves and then the floor gives me a fifth storage space.  All of the little bins and trays that I have ended up with from other organization projects over the years has ended up here in this baking space.  Most of my cabinet dividers have ended up in here, too.  They are very useful for such small little items.


Top Shelf

On the top shelf, I keep a few mixes, store bought frosting, liquid measuring cups, sprinkles and muffin & cupcake wrappers.  That plastic bag on the left covers some disposable cake plates.

My next shelf contains marshmallows, candy, nuts, small bowls with covers (perfect for cracked eggs), all the baking chocolates, baking powder and baking soda, fondant tools and all of my measuring spoons and cups for dry goods (they were all hand washed yesterday as part of the project so that is why they are missing).  Also on this shelf are the candy molds, baking mat (rolled up), Christmas cupcake decorations and a small tray of office supplies.  My kids have a tendency to get into things so having all of that miscellaneous stuff in a small tray on a shelf in a closet keeps it out of their little hands.  I also keep my kids iron-on labels here as well. 





The third shelf is where I store canola oil, extra sugar, and my FoodSealer Canisters. 
In these canisters, I put confectioners sugar, marshmallows, brown sugar and nuts.  I also have my cupcake mix dispenser, extracts and flavorings, frosting dyes, candles, sticks, off-set spatulas, the traditional rolling pin  and fondant.







The next shelf contains our 2 bottles of olive oil, mini cupcake maker, cake pop pan, cake pop stand, mini pie maker and waffle maker.  Yes, I am the person who likes those little machines!  In the plastic containers in front are the cookie cutters.  One container has holiday cutters while the other box is non-holiday cutters, plus the birthday cutter.

Finally we have the floor or the final shelf.  Here I have a small tote that has non-scratching pads on the bottom.  It holds my pour-able tubs of sugar and flour.  I stash the "butter" liquid that we need for our popcorn maker.  Finally, the cake pop maker is stored down here.

Having this all organized makes me so happy!  Someday I want to jazz up that bottom shelf.  But, I hardly ever see it at this exact angle.

2 closet door reorganizations

Recipe - about this blog's recipes

I have always enjoyed cooking and baking.  I love trying out new recipes and tweaking them to our tastes, budget and cooking tools.  Between my wedding shower, the wedding and various gifts since then, I have a lot of cooking and baking supplies.  My kitchen is at capacity so I am going to try and avoid buying new things.  I am able to stash a few things in the basement on some shelving like the Bread Maker and the Set-It-And-Forget-It (you know that you have thought how cool it would be to own this at least once!).

I like to separate out my recipes between crockpot and non-crockpot cooking methods.  Sometimes, when I am busy or have plans to be gone out of the house for a long period then I just know that I need to make something in the crockpot.  I keep all my recipes in spreadsheets based on their cooking method for easy look up.

I own a TON of cookbooks. I have tried to pare them down over the past few years due to space limitations, but it is HARD.  I don't want to get rid of one and then one day, have an inspiration about something that I want to make and can't  - because I parted with the cookbook.































I just want to mention that I have the first edition on the mixer bible, I believe.

DR Closet Organization

Our dining room closed was in need of some desperate TLC.

I wish I had a before pic but, I honestly didn't think it was going to be that exciting!

I asked the DH to lower the bar for our hanging coats. Then I got a bunch of baskets at Target to organize. I like these ones b/c if they are not needed they will fold flat, they have space for a label and they were 2/$8.