Dorie Greenspan, author of Baking with Julia and the award-winning Desserts By Pierre Her, has persuaded Paris’ greatest pastry chefs to part with their most cherished recipes and has thoroughly tested them for American home bakers. The result is a charming Read the full article...
Baking, Bread, Dessert
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.
Every cook needs a reliable source for cookies for when the cookie mood strikes us! With a terrific selection of recipes that work every time, along with great photographs, The Good Cookie is our favorite from a field of many. Read the full article...
Home Baking is another splendid book from husband and wife author team Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid (Flatbreads and Flavors; Seductions of Rice; Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet), and is their most accessible book yet. Once again the authors went on a culinary search to bring readers a tour Read the full article...
This is a collection for home cooks who want to take the time and effort to create a truly memorable end to a meal, and will not be swayed by lengthy ingredient lists or calories alike. Chef/owner Todd English of Olives in Boston has teamed Read the full article...
How to Be a Domestic Goddess is not only about baking, but also about enjoying being in the kitchen; about taking sensuous pleasure in the entire process and relishing the outcome. The “domestic goddess” has to maintain her (or his) cool when faced with pastry of course; but with Nigella’s guidance, Read the full article...
Winner of the IACP Cookbook of the Year, The Pie and Pastry Bible should be on your top shelf right alongside Rose Levy Beranbaum’s other award winner, The Cake Bible. As with that baker’s staple, this is the best researched book on the subject. With more than 300 recipes, Read the full article...
Wayne Gisslen’s professional cooking and baking texts are the standard in the culinary field and have educated hundreds of thousands of professional chefs. Read the full article...
Baking with Julia (written by Dorie Greenspan) features hands-on baking with recipes and techniques that teach you how to make great breads, pies, cobblers, cookies, cakes, and pastries—both sweet and savory. Bakers will find simple to stunning Read the full article...
For home cooks wanting more on the slightly sweet side, Nancy Silverton’s Pastries from the La Brea Bakery is the follow-up to the popular Breads from the La Brea Bakery. Read the full article...
According to authors and culinary adventurers Jeffrey Allford and Naomi Duguid, Flatbreads and Flavors is “in part a journal, a travel, diary a record of events and memories expressed in recipes.’” All of their cookbooks are excellent—the personal writing, the recipes, their instructions, Read the full article...