HOW TO ORGANIZE BAKING INGREDIENTS

Before you give in to the temptation of copying those Pinterest-perfect and Instagram-worthy baking pantries, you must keep in mind that those systems may not be realistic for you to keep up with. Also, immediately decanting your baking ingredients into those beautiful jars and canisters before you even need to use them can cause them to expire more quickly. I share all about how to properly organize your baking ingredients so they stay fresh longer and are safe from pest invasions. And, did you know, you can also organize your spaces according to your organizing style? You can find out what your organizing style is here.

Before organizing your baking ingredients, you must purge the expired ones and the ones you do not like. Be ruthless and purge the excess so you can more easily store what you do use.

In my freebie library here, I include guides which help walk you through the organizing process and help you decide what to purge and keep. I also include my declutter and organizing challenge calendars and guides to help direct you through each area of your home. These guides ensure you get through every nook and cranny and finally get to the other side of clutter … an organized and functional space!

In this post, we focus on how to organize your baking ingredients. Below, I share ideas on how to properly organize these baking ingredients with different types of organizing solutions that will work for your organizing styles and spaces. (The proper storage and organization of other dry goods including bean, grains, and legumes, cereal, and pasta are linked as noted.)

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How to Properly Contain Baking Ingredients

STOP! Before you decant those flours and starches into those beautiful jars, are you going to bake them right now? Flours and starches need to stay in their original packaging (if sealed well) until you are ready to use them. If the original package is not sealed well or only after you open the package, if you are not going to cook or consume the entire package, is when you can decant the rest of the goods into a container. The container you use must have a proper gasket around the edge of the lid to help keep it air tight. This is important for keeping pantry moths away. If you have ever experienced having pantry moths, you know how very important it is to keep these flours and starches sealed. Once those critters invade, all that food must be thrown away and your entire pantry must be deep-cleaned. Let me save you the trouble now. I share all about what to look for in pantry jars and canisters here. Canisters that you can purchase individually are helpful so you don’t have to worry about matching any jar or canister sets. You can purchase just the size jar you need and as many of that size as you need whether now or later as your pantry grows.

Depending on your baking ingredient needs, here is a larger container for flour, for example:

Here is a medium size for sugar, for example:

Here is a smaller size for brown sugar, for example:

How to Organize Baking Ingredients

Knowing now that your baking ingredients must stay in their original packaging until opened to use, here is how to properly organize them. Depending on how deep your kitchen cabinets or pantry shelves are, you can choose one of two options which I share in the previous post here.

For your special baking ingredients like sprinkles, you can store these smaller ingredients in lidded containers if you don’t bake too often. Or, if you bake a couple times a month, you can use something like this which is stackable making it space-saving:

If you bake even more frequently, you can organize your sprinkles and icings and other baking accessories with containers and organizers as suggested in my spice organization post here.

And, for those super bakers who makes bulk purchases of flours and sugar for all your creations, bulk containers like these might be perfect for you:

I also shared a verstion on wheels in my dry goods post here.

I hope you found some ideas for how to organize your baking ingredients for your organizing style and/or the space that you have! In my next post, I share ideas on how to organize your pasta and sauces. Don’t forget to grab my free resources from my freebie library here. Let’s get to the other side of clutter … an organized and functional space!

Happy Organizing!