Gorgeous Cakes

Baking cakes is enjoying a new lease on life as people remember how fun and easy to make they are. This is a comprehensive cake book with everything from classics to new creations. There are sumptuous cheesecakes, cute cupcakes, delicious dream cakes, indulgent chocolate cakes as well as guilt free cakes every cake you would ever want to make, or eat, is included in this stylish, fun and beautifully illustrated book.

Super-Duper Cupcakes

These cupcakes—from the owner of the Cupcake Caboose Company—are the yummiest and best looking ever! They come in sweet chocolate or creamy vanilla, dyed and decorated with dazzling designs. Best of all, every kid can make one. Ambitious little bakers will enlist a parent’s help and start from scratch, using the well-illustrated recipes for both cupcakes and frosting. Or they might want to get creative with store-bought pastries, mixes, and packaged icings. Either way, becoming a “cupcake artist” is easy, especially with the handy “cupcake key” to explain which are simplest and which need a little more practice. It’s delicious fun!

Williams Sonoma Baking

Baking presents over 200 recipes, both classic and contemporary, from the award-winning Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library series. Find delicious preparations for muffins, breads, pizzas, cookies, cakes, pies, and fruit desserts. The basic recipes and techniques section includes an illustrated glossary. Each recipe is kitchen-tested and accompanied by a full-color photograph of the finished dish, as well as suggestions for planning, serving, garnishing, and storing. Step-by-step photographs illustrate instructions and tips for kneading and shaping bread dough, baking and decorating beautiful cakes, and ideas for topping a variety of baked goods.

Galletas : Cookies, Spanish-Language Edition

Spanish Language Edition! This delightful title celebrates the cookie in all its shapes, sizes, and flavors, from homey Scotch shortbread and sparkling holiday stars to sophisticated treats like chocolate espresso bars and elegant hazelnut meringues. Decorating tips and a guide to cookie-making basics ease the way, and color photos add delicious inspiration.

Caramel

Caramel is the dreamiest, yummiest, most irresistible of sweets. And this full-surrender cookbook celebrates its remarkable versatility with creamy puddings, crunchy toffee, moist cakes, and fluffy meringues. Whether enjoying the satisfying crackle through a Crème Brulee crust, fresh fruit drizzled with Classic Caramel Dessert Sauce, Mad Cap Marshmallows dipped in chocolate and caramel, or luscious Caramel Crème Anglaise, everyone will find a favorite among these delicious treats. Step-by-step instructions make each recipe practically foolproof, while a helpful overview of basic techniques gives caramel lovers the tools they need to explore all the possibilities of sugar in its most sublime form. More than 30 select recipes and 20 color photographs paint a portrait in caramel no cook will want to miss. Peggy Cullen is a freelance food writer whose work has been featured in Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and Food and Wine. She lives in Massachusetts.

Betty Crocker's Cookie Book, Updated

Everyone loves cookies, and with Betty Crocker, everyone can bake them! From novice to pro, these cookies will fill the bill, whether for holiday treats, bake sales, or everyday energizers, these are the cookies you want, with more than 240 to choose from. Every chapter has a most requested cookie, hot from Betty Crocker's kitchens--these are the cookies America's been asking for. There is also an entire chapter for kids, as well as tons of super-easy bar cookies--just pour, bake, and enjoy! And with the Doughs and Doughnut's chapter to guide readers through the basics, there is no part of cookie baking that will cause even the most inexperienced baker any concern. About the only problem readers will have is deciding which cookie to make first, Deluxe Chocolate Chip Cookies, No-Roll Sugar Cookies, Mousse Bars, Rocky Road Bars, Walnut Biscotti--but whatever they choose, it'll be a winner.

Best Brownies and Bars

A slim volume of the best delicious brownies and bars from author Gregg R. Gillespie. Each recipe is accompanied by a mouth-watering, full-color photograph. Contains nearly 100 easy-to-make recipes organized alphabetically for easy reference.

Good Housekeeping Great Baking

More than 600 sweet and savory recipes, all shown in beautiful color photos and with the Good Housekeeping imprimatur, fill the pages of this home baker's must-have. It's so easy to make the most humdrum day sparkle with these triple-tested, fresh-from-the-oven delights. Memories are made with traditional treats like sugar cookies or fudgy brownies. For something new, try a silky custard pie or big-city cheesecake. Make scrumptious souffles (yes, you can!), pizzas and quiches, or international specialties such as Italian and Greek breads, elegant French fruit tarts, or buttery Danish pastries. All the baking basics are included, along with enough helpful hints to get it right the first time and every time after.

Perfect Pastry : The Fine Art of Sweet

Who can resist the smooth, crumbly texture of a rich fruit tart or warm savoury starters encased in crisp, light pastry? This new book will help cooks get the pastry just right. There are recipes for every type of pastry from shortcrust and choux to puff and strudel, plus practical advice on preparing savoury and sweet fillings. Basic techniques are explained with step-by-step photography. Over 70 delicious recipes are included from well-loved Chicken Charter Pie and Alsace Leek and Onion Tartlets to mouth-watering Coffee Cream Profiteroles. Full of fabulous recipes and packed with helpful advice and essential information, this is the ideal kitchen reference for every household.

Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

Driven by his obsession, stubborn idealism, and the promise of free candy, self-confessed candyfreak Steve Almond takes off to discover candy's origins in America, to explore the little companies that continue to get by on pluck and perseverance, and to witness the glorious excess of candy manufacturing. From the Twin Bing to the Idaho Spud, the Valomilk to the Abba-Zabba, Almond uncovers a small legion of singular handcrafted candy bars made by unsung heroes, working in old-fashioned factories for tiny profits to produce something that they love. Fascinated by the emotional power of their confectionery delights, the primal and persuasive experience of the world in our mouths, Almond describes our candy cravings in sensuous and titillating detail. Though the road is laden with free samples, he discovers that the world of candy making is not the sweet world of childhood reveries but one beleaguered by stiff competition, closely guarded secrets, and increasingly limited markets. But no matter. As he also finds, every candy maker, even when poised on the edge of failure, is happy, indulgent, and childlike. For finally, even the darkest market forces, even the clout of the Big Three candy companies that threaten to wipe out all others, cannot lessen our desire to lose ourselves in chocolate. Candyfreak is the bittersweet story of how Steve Almond grew up on candy--and how, for better and worse, candy has grown up, too. Almond gives us a hilarious, sugar-high tour of those old-fashioned candy companies.

Search for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie

What chocolate lover could resist this mouth-watering collection of delicious, award-winning chocolate recipes, including Fudge Fantasies, Brownie Chip Meringues, Mocha Dreams, and many others.

Best 50 Dessert Tarts

It's easier than it looks to bake a great sweet tart, and you'll find the very best dessert tart recipes in this inexpensive book. Tarts don't have to be complicated and time-consuming creations, and author Sandra Rudloff makes them easy for you. The Best 50 Dessert Tarts lists numerous successful crust recipes--most important for cooking a great dessert--and a variety of delicious fillings, with step-by-step baking instructions. Get creative and mix and match crusts and fillings to make your own impressive dessert darts. Fruit tarts, lemon tarts, chocolate tarts: whether baked in a shell or cream- or custard-filled, you'll never need another tart recipe.

Wild, Wild 1950's Cookies

Three recipes for cookie dough--Jukebox Gingies, Bobby Socks Scotchies, and Cherry Chocolate Cookies--with tips on shaping the cookies into 1950's icons. Main focus is on tips in dough-making, shape-cutting, frosting and decorating, and storing and shipping.

Sinfully Vegan

The author has veganized all the traditional favorites, giving us 100 recipes that cover the full spectrum of desserts-- from cakes, candies, cookies, and brownies to pies, tarts, puddings, and breads--all of which are dairy and egg-free.

Sweet Food

Why resist? When your next craving hits, Sweet Food offers 200 recipes that are sure to cure. Whether it’s a seductively satisfying crème caramel, the naughty but oh-so-nice chocolate fudge pecan pie, or an exotic saffron spice cake that’s needed, you’re sure to find it here. A new addition to the acclaimed Little Food Series, Sweet Foods offers delectable treats from the elegant to the comforting. Each one is sure to ssatisfy your sweet tooth.