Cookbooks We Love presents reviews of “Baking, Breads & Desserts Cookbooks”, a short-list of our favorite baking cookbooks, bread cook books, breadmaking and bread making books including some of the best pie, cookie, bread, dessert, pastry and cake recipes. Use these cook books to make fantastic breads, cakes, cookies, biscuits, buns, pastries and scones.
Food trucks are all the rage these days and author/food truck owner Kim Ima, reinforces the belief that if you are passionate about something and can visualize it, you can make it happen and be successful. “I want to make it real,” I told my friend. It was love. And when it’s love, what else […] Read the full article...
Tartine Bread is my ideal bread book. No more excuses, no more stalling, time to expand beyond pizza dough and brioche. Bread baking is very personal by nature. We all take to the ovens with varying degrees of enthusiasm, skill, and expectations. Not to mention time commitments. The most important element of a bread book, […] Read the full article...
As cliché as this might sound, I really want to bake everything in Joanne Chang’s new baking book, Flour, Spectacular Recipes from Boston’s Flour Bakery + Café. Really, there’s not a recipe I don’t want to try. She makes it all look easy, delicious and impossible to resist. There’s nothing over-the-top and too showy in […] Read the full article...
I simply had to post a review for Flo Braker’s Baking for All Occasions right away just to share the recipe for Eggnog Pound Cake with Crystal Rum Glaze. Next best thing to eggnog in a cup, combination of fresh eggnog, rum and currents baked in a nutmeg infused light pound cake is a definite […] Read the full article...
With seven cookbooks to her credit and countless articles in such noted magazines as Bon Appetit, Gourmet and Food and Wine, Carole Bloom surely is an accomplished baker and writer. In The Essential Baker, her eighth book, she shares with us her wealth of knowledge and baking skills Read the full article...
The Essence of Chocolate by John Scharffen and Robert Steinberg gives us recipes, photographs and personal reflections to tell the story of Scharffen Berger, one of America’s most popular and finest chocolate makers. Read the full article...
Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook is a solid collection of sweet and savory baking recipes from America’s favorite homemaker. Ideal for new bakers, The Baking Handbook offers up over 200 fairly traditional recipes handily organized; there’s cookies, muffins, pastries, pies, cakes, yeast breads, Read the full article...
Baking by Flavor takes 18 basic ingredients—chocolate, vanilla, and lemon to name a few—and introduces the recipes that enable you to boost the flavor in each category according to your own level of passion for said flavor, rather than type of baked good. For example, in the almond chapter, Fallen Chocolate Almond Cake contains Read the full article...
Winner of both the 2002 IACP and James Beard Awards for Cookbook of the Year, The Bread Baker’s Apprentice is an extraordinary book from a master baker and teacher. Peter Reinhart is just who you want peering over your shoulder as you attempt to master (or at least muddle through) your own creations. Read the full article...
Donna Hay applies her magic touch to desserts in Modern Classics Book 2. A great collection of sweet favorites redefined with modern ingredients, outlook, and style. As with all of her books (Modern Classics, Entertaining, The New Cook, New Food Fast), each recipe is simple to follow, clearly written, Read the full article...
