Baking: From My Home to Yours

From Strand Bookstore

Dorrie Greenspan returns to her first love, baking, sharing three decades of her own favorite recipes, as well as the secrets she learned in the kitchens of the world's great chefs. Each of the more than three hundred recipes is magical, memorable, & infallible. Among them are: Blueberry-Brown Sugar Cake, World Peace Cookies, French Chocolate Brownies. Double Apple Bundt Cake, Black-and-White-Chocolate Cake, Creme Brulee, Mixed Berry Cobbler & Vanilla Ice Cream. With A Dessert Maker's Glossary, with more than 100 entries that answer just about every question a baker may have, from which butter is best to buy to how not to burn your cookie bottoms! Color illus. 514p.

From the Publisher

Drawing on three decades of experience with home baking, the author of the award-winning Baking with Julia introduces three hundred tempting recipes for home bakers, offering an array of spicy muffins, sweet breads, brownies and cookies, tarts, and other special treats, highlighted by a helpful glossary, expert baking tips and advice, and full-color photographs.

Review

Publishers Weekly
"Recipes like Perfection Pound Cake and All-American, All-Delicious Apple Pie convey a comfortable, almost homey, familiarity that will bring readers back to this collection again and again...This is baking at its best."

Review

Florence Fabricant - New York Times
"Ms. Greenspan's accomplished approach is evident in this handsome, lavishly photographed book...This is a book to open time and again when you want to bake irresistible dessert from scratch..."

More about the book

Lauded BAKING WITH JULIA co-author Dorie Greenspan has created a homey, yet sophisticated, baking book for those who delight in sweet treats at all times of the day. From delicious Allspice Crumb Muffins for breakfast to an afternoon tea companion of Blueberry Crumb Cake to Four-Star Chocolate Bread Pudding--perhaps topped with White Chocolate Whipped Cream?--for a decadent dessert, the recipes cry out to be made throughout this lovely kitchen companion. With full-color photographs.