Skip to content
SBScientific Baking The cited reference library
Foundations Pâtisserie Specialist Crafts Category Atlases Presentation Professional
Search the library /
Tools Calculators Diagnose
About & methodology
Home/Category Atlases
Category Atlases

Each category, in depth

Where Foundations covers the shared science, the atlases give each category its own dedicated deep-dive: the governing variables, the sub-styles, and the troubleshooting that category demands.

13

Bread & Sourdough Live

Reading a formula as a style, the lean, rye, and enriched atlases, and the deep sourdough-microbiology centerpiece.

Flagship
14

Viennoiserie & Lamination Live

The yeasted laminated craft: the butter block, turn math, and the sub-28 °C proof discipline.

Lamination
15

Cakes & Sponges Live

The two families and their hybrids, formula balancing, high-ratio cakes, and tiered-cake structure.

Formula balancing
16

Cookies, Macarons & Petits Fours Live

Cookie spread and browning science, the macaron centerpiece, and the petit-four taxonomy.

Macarons
17

Pies, Tarts & Fruit Desserts Live

The four governing variables, crust systems, the soggy-bottom arsenal, and the fruit-thickener comparison.

Thickeners
Scientific Baking
Foundations Category Atlases Calculators About & methodology Search
A cited reference library on the science and craft of baking. © 2026 Scientific Baking.