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.
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 holiday pleaser. I also really enjoyed making (and eating) the Gingerbread-Pecan Tart…
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…..
The Essence of Chocolate by John Scharffenberger 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…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 11/02/2007
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…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 09/05/2007
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…..
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…..
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…..
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…..
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…..
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…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 03/15/2005
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…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 11/29/2004
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…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 10/02/2004
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…..
Wayne Gisslen’s professional cooking and baking texts are the standard in the culinary field and have educated hundreds of thousands of professional chefs…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 09/10/2004
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…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 08/21/2004
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…...
Posted by Editor Carol on 04/04/2004
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…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 03/14/2004
Baking in America is a wonderful retrospective of the history of baking in the country starting with the first American cookbook published in 1776, American Cookery. Author Greg Patent, presents a unique collection of recipes that have been forgotten over time, until now…..
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