Ice Cream

In this delicious story of ice cream, we are taken on an exotic journey for the old world to the new, from ice harvesting in ancient China to birthday celebrations in the age of Louis XIV to ice cream cones painted by Andy Warhol in the twentieth century. It’s a story filled with history, adventure, myth, and intriguing facts about ice cream. Did you know that Scots believed ice cream parlors were dens of iniquity? Or that there are more than seven hundred flavors and that the flavor you prefer expresses your personality? In all its many forms, ice cream has become one of the oldest, most popular, and most democratic of pleasures, The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream, wrote the poet Wallace Stevens. A wonderful surprising, entertaining, and intelligent book, Ice Cream is about the dessert itself and how we have come to regard it. As Marilyn Powell reveals, ice cream is the dessert of memory, a perfect food for the imagination. Containing illustrations, anecdotes, and famous recipes, Ice Cream will delight ice cream lovers around the world.

More Great Good Dairy-Free Desserts Naturally

Desserts are celebratory and provide an emotional as well as physical satisfaction. This collection of recipes for sin-sational sweets can be enjoyed without the guilt. They're all rich in wholesome, minimally processed ingredients and free of chemical additives and superflous fat. Even if you're a novice baker, you'll be able to make rich, moist cakes, delightful cookies, and flaky pie crust--all cholesterol free. Designed as a complete course in dairy- and egg-free baking, readers can still go directly to any recipe; each one is detailed and complete. You'll learn all the tricks of the trade for making and baking : gels, creams, mousses, puddings, and sauces, cookies, bars, little bites, cobblers, crisps, biscuits, muffins, cakes (basic to elaborate), pies and tarts as well as fillings, frostings, glazes, and frozen desserts. Dessert lovers everywhere will be delighted with these sumptuous treats and now those who are lactose intolerant, watching their cholesterol, or simply health conscious can have their cake and eat it too.

Chocolate Sensations

Chocolate Espresso Roll Chocolate-Almond Cupcakes Brown Sugar Blondies Chocolate Profiteroles Brownie Fudge pie Chocolate Popovers with Custard Halloween Brownie Cake Chocolate-Walnut Bread And a host of other tempting chocolate delights!

Great Cakes : Over 250 Recipes to Bake, Share, and Enjoy

Carole Walter has had a love affair with baking since she was a child. That passion has flowered into a professional career that has taken Walter around the world to study baking and the culinary arts with renowned chefs in Austria, Denmark, France, and Italy, as well as in the United States. For twenty years she has been sharing this wealth of expertise with her own students, and now she shares it with you. With Carole Walter at your side, you will be able to achieve professional results every time. Her clear instructions and invaluable tips will help you avoid the common pitfalls that every baker, no matter how experienced, faces from time to time. Many of the cake recipes in Great Cakes can be baked in under an hour and don't require frosting or filling, yet they are attractive enough to serve to company. Here are recipes for Old-Fashioned Pound Cake and Streusel Lemon Torte, Chocolate Marble Cheesecake and Italian Purple Plum Cake, and more -- over 250 recipes in all. You'll also find an array of basic butter cakes, jelly roll cakes, coffee cakes and cheese cakes, as well as cakes that have fruit, nuts, and vegetables as their main ingredients. Once you've mastered the basics, you can go on to fillings, frostings, glazes, and toppings for glorious results. A complete compendium of cake recipes, this is the only cake baking book you'll ever need, the one you'll use again and again to make simple yet utterly delicious cakes for your family and friends. Great Cakes is more than a cookbook -- it's a baking course between two covers.

Complete Cake Mix Magic

The 300 best cake mix recipes, in a new concealed wiro format! Complete Cake Mix Magic combines the best selling Cake Mix Magic and Cake Mix Magic 2 with 50 new recipes, and is now full color throughout. Here is a selection of the great cakes: Single-Layer Cakes: Apple Crisp Cake, Triple Lemon Cake, Chocolate Strawberry Cream Cake Multi-Layer Cakes: Black Forest Cake, Apricot Hazelnut Cake, Mocha Toffee Cake Tube and Bundt Cakes: Chocolate Macaroon Ring Cake, Butterscotch Swirl, Hummingbird Cake Special Occasion Cakes: Choo Choo Train Birthday Cake, Chocolate Yule Log, Pumpkin Pie Squares Cookies: Spicy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, Crispy Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Hazelnut Biscotti Bars and Squares: Raspberry Dream Bars, Toffee Chocolate Bars, Cherry Cheesecake Bars Frosting, Fillings and Glazes: Very Peanut Buttery Frosting, Chocolate Ganache, Lemon Butter Cream These 300 recipes provide results that taste homemade in less than half the time it would take to bake from scratch. Practical tips and techniques throughout the book ensure perfect results every time.

Baking for Dummies

Baking is fun, easy, and best of all, the results are delicious. Filled with tantalizing recipes for homemade treats, as well as baking tips and techniques, this accessible guide makes baking for birthdays, holidays, or everyday easier than ever. Whether it's savory or sweet, fruit-filled or dripping with chocolate, this cookbook has it all. Includes 100 scrumptious recipes, list of basic ingredients and essential equipment, and step-by-step instructions.

Farmhand's Favorite Pies

You will be inspired to get ready to take home the blue ribbon at the country fair by this book! An easy-to-follow format provides recipes for various pastry crusts and then serves up mouth-watering recipes for cream pies, meringues, southern favorites, fruit pies, tarts, and one-crust favorites. The authors also provide advice about equipment, ingredients and decorative touches. These recipes and the fun format in which they are presented will bring out the true country in any cook. From Ellie's Coconut Cream Dream to Prefect Pumpkin, Pucker-Up Rhubarb and Apple Galettes, this book serves up some good eats!

Sweet Seasons

Here Chef Richard Leach shares 400 of his building block recipes that can be combined to create 100 of his favorite, original desserts, organized by season so bakers can take advantage of the freshest ingredients available–and richly illustrated with 113 color photographs illustrating plated desserts and their assembly. Each recipe is structured so as to allow readers to prepare all or any part of the dessert, based on level of expertise and availability of ingredients. Throughout, Chef Leach provides useful substitution tips and plating instructions, and includes sources of ingredients and equipment.

Baker's Dozen Cookbook

America's top bakers cook up the ultimate, one-of-a-kind handbook sure to change the way America bakes! Ten years ago, renowned bakers Marion Cunningham and Flo Braker gathered a baker's dozen of their professional friends to share their wisdom and common passion for baking. Today the Baker's Dozen embraces 300 amateur and professional bakers, and now with this remarkable cookbook, they invite bakers everywhere to join their celebrated circle and discover the pleasures of baking. In this essential resource, these experts reveal the secrets for creating flawless favorites every time, from muffins and meringues to pound cakes and popovers. Here are ultimate recipes for coffee cakes and custards, tarts and tea loaves, accompanied by detailed step-by-step directions garnered from years of experience. Throughout, they encourage bakers to form their own baking groups, offering time-tested wisdom and tips on everything from ingredients to techniques.

Basic Baking

In her inimitable, user-friendly style, Lora Brody teaches new bakers to turn out classic favorites as she takes them step-by-step through the process. First-time bakers will learn what cream butter and sugar means, become familiar with the difference between baking soda and baking powder, and learn to master basic recipes for cakes, cookies, pies, tarts and quick breads. Packed with helpful sidebars and variations, this invaluable cookbook provides a clear understanding of the basic techniques behind baking and offers endless tips on how to prevent common baking mishaps with up-to-the-minute advice that can be applied to any recipe. Learn how to make light-as-a-feather angel food cake, the perfect blueberry muffin, or the best chocolate chip cookies—as well as scones, buttermilk biscuits and more. As it gives bakers confidence, this essential kitchen tool will inspire them to tackle more challenging recipes and desserts.

Look & Cook Delicious Desserts

Using the unique Look & Cook method, you will be able to create more than 40 delicious dishes, including crepes, souffles, and gateaux, ice creams, meringues, and exotic fruit deserts.

Cookies Unlimited

Few things in life are as comforting as home-baked cookies, and popular cooking teacher and acclaimed author Nick Malgieri teaches how to make them right in this beautifully illustrated cookbook. Praised for his delectable recipes and flawless, easy-to-follow approach to baking, Malgieri has collected his favorite recipes from across the world to provide a range of more than 350 original and time-tested recipes for cookies for every occasion. From classics like peanut-butter drop cookies and gingersnaps to impressive French tuiles, marbled chocolate biscotti, and spectacular gingerbread houses, this book offers everything homebakers want to know about making cookies. Whether you've made one cookie or hundreds, this volume will help you to always keep that cookie jar full!

Sweet Miniatures

The best things come in small packages and no one knows the art of making sweet miniatures better than acclaimed baking expert Flo Braker. This revised and expanded edition of Sweet Miniatures offers step-by-step instructions for making all kinds of delectable desserts scaled down to an irresistible one-bite size. Miniature chewy Panforte di Siena, crispy Florentine Squares and tangy Shreveshire Tarts will whisk family and friends away on an exciting mouthwatering journey. Little sweet somethings—Candied Almond Clusters, Golden Caramels and Toffee Butter Crunch—make a thoughtful gift during the holidays. From cheerful Chocolate Hedgehogs to a set of Midas Cups for adding that golden touch to a festive soiree, this book has all the right ingredients for creating the perfect bite-sized morsel to suit any occasion. Jam-packed with more than 125 delicious treats, this IACP Award-winning cookbook explains, step-by-step, the methods, tricks, and techniques for ensuring a perfect batch of little pastries, cookies, cakes, or candies every time.

The Ice Cream Lover's

Whatever one's passion—whether Italian gelati, fresh-fruit sorbet, creamy nondairy dessert, delectable frozen yogurt, or genuine no-frills, no-holds-barred ice cream—this book offers readers exceptional and effortless recipes in every category. gourmet readers will adore the sophisticated tastes, and the traditionalists can rest assured there are quick and easy recipes for all the classic favorites: vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. If sugar-free, fat-free or lactose-free desserts are important, readers will find tempting selections to meet any diet restriction—without skimping on flavor!

Bittersweet

2004 IACP Cookbook of the Year 2004 IACP Award Winner for Single Subject Category Thirty years since she opened up the Berkeley, California, pastry shop that changed the face of chocolate desserts in America, Alice Medrich is about to do it again! The time when home bakers had only one choice of baking chocolate is long passed. Today, we have an entire new generation of chocolates to choose from: chocolates with less sugar, more cocoa bean solids, and definitely more flavor. These new chocolates--called percentage chocolates--beg for the creation of new recipes and a fresh take on the classics. With Bittersweet, the First Lady of Chocolate gives the new-generation chocolates and chocolate nibs--the ground-up roasted hulls of cocoa beans that are the new chocolate chip--a starring role. Every recipe is foolproof and utterly delicious, no matter your level of expertise. You'll marvel that recipes as classic as brownies, chocolate cake, and ice cream can still surprise and that souffles, crepes, even pasta sauces can be so dramatically flavorful. Still learning, discovering, and sharing what she loves and understands about chocolate, Alice Medrich brings us Bittersweet.