Dessert and Baking
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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 , $24.95
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
Paperback , $14.95
In Prairie Home Breads, James Beard Award and IACP Award nominee Judith Fertig captures Old World tradition, New World ingenuity, and Heartland abundance in 150 recipes for the very best home-baked breads including yeast breads, quick breads and muffins, biscuits and scones, whole-grain breads, and rolls and pastries.
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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.
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The Best Quick Breads
150 Recipes for Muffins, Scones, Shortcakes, Gingerbreads, Cornbreads, Coffeecakes, and More
Paperback , $16.95
The pleasure of a perfectly high-domed muffin, the butter-tender crumb of a teatime scone, a sizzling skillet of golden-crusted cornbread, a piping-hot stack of fluffy pancakes—quick breads are an everyday luxury, an affordable indulgence, a reminder of how special simple foods can be.
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The Birthday Cake Book
75 Recipes for Candle-Worthy Creations
By Dede Wilson
Hardcover , $27.95
Paperback , $18.95There’s no better way to celebrate the birthday of a friend or loved one than with a one-of-a-kind cake that looks amazing and tastes delicious. Dede Wilson has created 75 recipes for special birthday cakes that will make any celebration a memorable one. In her signature clear and friendly tone, Wilson guides bakers of all skill levels through the delicious world of birthday cakes, from making the perfect parchment cone for icing the cake to mixing up a fresh batch of chocolate ganache.
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Truffles
50 Deliciously Decadent Homemade Chocolate Treats
By Dede Wilson
Hardcover , $12.95
Everyone knows that truffles are luxurious and indulgent, but who knew that they could be so easy to make? In Truffles, Dede Wilson presents 50 clear, easy-to-follow recipes for truffles using milk, dark, and white chocolate infused with a wide range of fabulous flavorings, such as raspberry, ginger, curry, espresso, cognac, passion fruit, hazelnut, and champagne. Featuring mouthwatering full-color photos with creative ideas for packaging truffles as gifts, Truffles is a sweet treat for any chocolate lover!