Baking
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Average rating4.6
Greenspan, coauthor of books with culinary icons such as Julia Child (Baking with Julia), Daniel Boulud and Pierre Hermé, shares her favorite recipes in this tantalizing collection, which covers all the baking bases, from muffins, cookies and brownies to spoon desserts, pies and cobblers. Instructions are clear and easy to follow, and Greenspan uses everyday ingredients readily available to the home chef. 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. In addition, she provides insight into matters many cooks may not often consider, such as leaveners, technique and choosing the right pan. Numerous mouth-watering photos dot the book throughout, making it hard to choose which one to make first. Especially helpful is the Indispensables: Base Recipes section at the end of the book, which includes pointers for making key ingredients such dough, pastry cream, lemon curd and faux crème fraîche. This is baking at its best. Over 100 full-color photos. (Nov.)
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My library program “Cookin the Books” used this cookbook for this month's (February 2016) program. We made Brownie Buttons, Blueberry Crumb Cake, Coco-Nana Bread, Low & Lush Chocolate Cheesecake, Chewy Chunky Blondies , Mini Milk Chocolate Bundt Cake, Far Breton Cake, Chocolate Gingerbread and Nutty Chocolatey Swirly Sour Cream Bundt Cake.
I think the general consensus was that we enjoyed the cook book (hence the 4 star rating) but felt it could have used either editing or test cooking. I personally made the Mini Milk Chocolate Bundt cakes. I ended up having to double the recipe because it didn't make the amount it said it would. Several people found recipes that seemed to need tweaking. My favorite recipes of the ones presented was the Nutty Chocolatey Swirly Sour Cream Bundt Cake. I will be making that in the future! The one fail of today's meeting was the Coco-Nana Bread. It was very dense and dry. One person had made it previously without the chocolate and said it was a delicious Banana Bread. Overall, we had a great selection of the treats to try. “Baking: From My Home to Yours” is a good resource for baked dessert ideas.
My recommendation for this cookbook is test cook recipes cause you might be tweaking the recipe.
Bon Appetit!
