Cookbooks, cooking reads, and books about food
I’ve reviewed Get Started: Baking for the Pastry Sampler blog. Get Started: Baking is a solid baking book with basic fundamental recipes found in any recipe box. But what makes this book especially useful for beginners is that the ‘whys’ for successful baking are explained …
A great baking read: You’ll find familiar breads using store-bough basic instant yeast, long fermented (straight) doughs, doughs using pre-ferments, breads using levain cultures (no commercial yeast), and hybrid leavening (combo levain breads with additional yeast). Read the full review on Pastry Sampler’s baking …
The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook: Blending Old-Fashioned Fun and Modern Desserts What do you get when you combine old-fashioned baked goods in a fun retro location? You get Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, GA. The owners, Cheryl and Griffith Day shared …
Vintage Cakes by Julie Richardson. Julie Richardson brings old recipes to new life in her book Vintage Cakes. Her re-discovered treasure trove of old recipes left by the previous occupants of her Baker and Spice Bakery in Portland, OR, was put to use, as …
Candy Experiments: Combination Science and Candy Book Candy Experiments makes a good after school or weekend science book, but also as a fun way to incorporate candy into science fair projects. If you’ve ever struggled with helping a youngster come up with an idea or …
75 different treats that use alcohol. Spiked Desserts, from Fox Chapel Publishing, is a dessert book where every recipe is spiked with something, and the book engages readers to try 75 different luscious treats that use everything from bourbon and stout beer to …
The Art of Making Good Cookies Plain and Fancy. My latest find at the library’s ‘Friends of the Library’ store – an older cookie recipe book from the sixties. The Art of Making Good Cookies Plain and Fancy (Annette Laslett Ross and Jean Adams Disney, …
Confetti Cakes for Kids This isn’t so much as a kid’s baking book, rather than a great idea book and pattern book for creating lovely and inventive cakes for kids. The book I purchased is hefty and hard covered, and since I already have The …
Crazy for Cake Pops – Unique Designs The one thing this book has over the [competition] is a better variety of recipes: chocolate, vanilla, red velvet, peanut butter, toffee and lemon cake are the tasty ones included, and the frosting recipes are unique as well …
Fine Cooking Cookies – 200 Best-Ever Recipes for Cookies, Brownies, Bars, and More Overall, a great cookie recipe collection that presents both European and American favorites and new ideas in a way that makes it easy for home cooks to recreate in their kitchens. …