Dessert and Baking
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A Baker’s Field Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies
By Dede Wilson
Paper-over-boards with covered spiral binding , $17.95
America’s favorite cookie gets the star treatment in this mouthwatering collection of 75 recipes. Like Wilson’s other books in the series, A Baker’s Field Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies features full-color photos of every recipe, a concealed wire-o binding that allows it to lie flat when open, and helpful icons indicating which recipes are especially good for kids to make, which keep well, which are quick to make, and more!
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A Baker’s Field Guide to Christmas Cookies
By Dede Wilson
Paper-over-boards with covered spiral binding , $17.95
A fun, original new take on a classic subject, A Baker’s Field Guide to Christmas Cookies is a collection of more than 75 Christmas cookie recipes from all over the world, set up in field guide format. Organized alphabetically, every cookie is photographed in full color, followed by “field notes” on its type, habitat, description, and more.
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A Baker’s Field Guide to Cupcakes
Deliciously Decorated Crowd Pleasers for Parties and Holidays
By Dede Wilson
Paper-over-boards with covered spiral binding , $18.95
Dede Wilson brings the successful, user-friendly Baker’s Field Guide approach to cupcakes. With clear, easy-to-follow instructions, handy icons, and full-color photos accompanying every recipe, A Baker’s Field Guide to Cupcakes offers experienced and novice bakers alike dozens of simple, creative, and fabulously fun ways to celebrate any day of the year.
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Biscuit Bliss
101 Foolproof Recipes for Fresh and Fluffy Biscuits in Just Minutes
By James Villas
Paperback , $16.95
In Biscuit Bliss, acclaimed author James Villas offers a multitude of recipes for the quintessential American bread: from everyday classics like Cloud Biscuits and Buttermilk Biscuits to flavored biscuits such as Southern Sweet Potato Biscuits, and from Cinnamon-Pecan Drop Biscuits to fancier fare like Blue Cheese and Walnut Biscuits or Smoked Salmon and Dill Biscuits. There’s even a chapter on “the biscuit’s cousin,” the scone, and luscious color photographs that will have everyone reaching for the butter.
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Icebox Cakes
Simply Irresistible No-Bake Desserts
Hardcover , $29.95
Paperback , $17.95“No-bake cake” may sound like an oxymoron, but it is possible to make delicious and beautiful desserts without turning on the oven; instead, use the refrigerator or freezer to finish a dessert. Chilling takes the place of baking in these surprisingly delicious recipes – you assemble a cake by layering together ingredients such as store-bought pound cake, ladyfingers, wafer cookies, snack cakes (even Twinkies), ice cream, pudding, or whipped cream, then let the flavors meld together as the cake chills and sets up in the “icebox.” No-bake cakes are notoriously easy, but you’d never know by looking at or tasting these delicious recipes.
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Icebox Desserts
100 Cool Recipes for Icebox Cakes, Pies, Parfaits, Mousses, Puddings, and More
Paperback , $17.95
Icebox Desserts is a collection of 100 fun and flavorful recipes for homemade desserts designed with ease in mind— they require no baking (some call for minimal cooking on the stovetop), and most are what the author calls “little construction projects,” involving merely mixing together or layering the ingredients. These are delightfully delicious yet downright simple recipes for every taste and every occasion.
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Icebox Pies
Scrumptious Recipes for No-Bake No-Fail Pies
Paperback , $16.95
In Icebox Pies, Lauren Chattman offers 100 easy and delicious homemade desserts that don’t require a whole lot of work. There’s no rolling of pastry dough—the crusts are made from cookie crumbs and quickly crisped in the oven; the fillings are uncooked or prepared on the stovetop; the pies set in the refrigerator or freezer for a few hours before being served. These delightfully simple yet delectable pies will inspire experienced bakers and neophytes alike.
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Mom’s Big Book of Baking
200 Simple, Foolproof Family Favorites for Birthday Parties, Bake Sales, and More
Paper-over-boards with covered spiral binding , $21.95
Mom’s Big Book of Baking has more than 200 recipes tailor-made for today’s extremely busy mom. The recipes are all tested in a real mom’s kitchen (Lauren Chattman’s) and tasted by real kids (her own). Chattman has created streamlined recipes that produce the highest quality baked goods with the least amount of fuss, striking a balance between familiar favorites and new twists. There are loads of tips on vital topics including when and how to let kids participate, how to mass produce cupcakes, how to make the most Christmas cookies in the least amount of time, and how to make a birthday cake your child will remember forever without losing your mind.
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Mom’s Big Book of Cookies
200 Family Favorites You’ll Love Making and Your Kids Will Love Eating
Paper-over-boards with covered spiral binding , $21.95
Written by a mom for moms and featuring gorgeous 4-color photography and a user-friendly lay-flat binding, Mom’s Big Book of Cookies also offers 200 quick, easy, and deliciously kid-friendly cookie recipes. The book is full of useful tips to ensure cookie-baking success and suggests ways in which kids can help in the cookie-making process. With Mom’s Big Book of Cookies, any mom is sure to find recipes for her family that will be gobbled up from lunch boxes, at baseball practices, and as wholesome after-dinner treats.
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Pie
300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie
By Ken Haedrich
Paperback , $27.95
Finally, there’s a book with all the recipes and tips home cooks need to make every kind of pie. The delectable pies range from old-fashioned classics and traditional favorites to new creations and easy and delicious refrigerator and freezer pies. Novices and experienced pie bakers alike will find reassuring advice and time-tested tips on equipment, ingredients, judging baking times, rolling and shaping dough, and everything else needed to get through to the last scrumptious bite of homemade pie.
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Prairie Home Breads
150 Splendid Recipes from America’s Breadbasket
Hardcover , $18.95
To create these 150 recipes that celebrate the best of America’s bread baking tradition, Judith M. Fertig visited artisanal bakeries, working farmhouse kitchens, rural church suppers, urban bakeries, farmer’s markets, and home kitchens. She found delicious loaves, buns and rolls, biscuits, popovers, crackers, muffins, coffeecakes, kuchens, strudels, and more, as well as rich stories of ethnic and regional culture, agriculture, Midwestern culinary traditions, and warm celebrations of Heartland food.
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Salty Sweets
Delectable Desserts and Tempting Treats
with a Sublime Kiss of Salt
Hardcover , $19.95
Do opposites really attract? In the case of salty and sweet, you bet they do! Like peanut butter and jelly—itself a classic salty-sweet duo—these tastes were made for each other. Salt helps balance and heighten sweets, transforming ordinary cookies, cakes, and candies into truly special confections. It brings out the complexities of chocolate, highlights the subtleties of fruit, makes nuts really pop, and turns caramel and butterscotch into pure ambrosia. The salty-sweet combination has swept the nation, with chefs, candy makers, and retailers all offering tantalizing sweets complemented with salt.