Pillsbury Baking

The ultimate baking cookbook–with 175 of Pillsbury’s best recipes for breads, cookies, bars, cakes, pies, and desserts With 99 percent consumer awareness, the Pillsbury brand reaches 82 million households and is supported by a 340 million marketing budget each year. Now Pillsbury gives today’s home cooks the versatile, all-around baking book they need, filled with great recipes everyone will love. Beginners can start with basics like Dinner Rolls or Soft-and-Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies. More experienced bakers can head for more challenging breads and desserts, like Herbed Oatmeal Pan Bread and Black Bottom Strawberry Cream Pie. Many of the recipes offer variations with new flavor twists and combinations. Eighty color photos include how-to shots for basic recipes like muffins, biscuits, and pie crust and showcase the tempting finished results. Readers will find great ideas for virtually every need, occasion, and lifestyle. For time-pressed cooks, an entire chapter of express baking recipes using refrigerated dough makes it easy to create delicious, fresh-baked goodness in a hurry. A Kids Bake chapter has child-friendly recipes that are easy to make and taste great–a low-stress way to make lasting kitchen memories for the whole family. Pillsbury Baking also has plenty of options for festive holiday treats to give as gifts or serve at home to family and friends, from String-o-Lights Almond Wafers to Hanukkah Rugelach and White Chocolate Bread Pudding with Red Berry Sauce. With information on baking equipment and techniques as well as advice on cutting and storing, this book truly is an enduring turn-to reference that will become a staple in any kitchen.

Cookies

Everyone loves a cookie - perfect with a steaming mug of coffee or a cold glass of milk, they are a treat at any time of day. Try Cookie Jar Classics such as Gingerbread Cookies and Extra-crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies. In Heavenly Chocolate you'll find treats for anyone who simply can't resist chocolate, from Chocolate Fudge to Double Chocolate Pecan cookies. Occasional Treats brings you recipes for celebration cookies from around the world including Sardinian Wedding Cookies and Greek Shortbread Biscuits. In Little Indulgences you'll find scrumptious treats like Cookie Ice Cream Cakes or melted marshmallow S'Mores. Easy, no-fuss recipes for some of the tastiest cookies you'll ever eat!

Old Farmer's Almanac Best Home Baking

Best Home Baking, brought to you by the editors of the venerable Old Farmers Almanac, features prizewinning baked goods from Americas country fairs and food festivals, as well as bonus recipes carefully selected from the Almanacs own cooking contests. From Breads and Muffins to Cakes and Pies to Brownies, Bars, and Cookies, youll find many tasty treats here that are sure to please your family and friends for years to come. As a special add-on value, this fun and easy-to-use recipe book also includes valuable Blue Ribbon Tips, with inside hints and helps from Americas best amateur bakers. Makes a wonderful gift for anyone interested in baking or great foodincluding yourself!

Chocolate

In every form -- cakes, flans, crusts, sprinkles, sauces -- chocolate is the national favorite. Chef Trish Deseine provides 100 easy and original recipes, each one accompanied by a truly mouthwatering photograph. The dishes are arranged into practical groupings, such as Chocolate with Crunch, Chocolate for Kids, Chic Chocolate and Chocotherapy. This delicious collection includes a special section on the tricks and techniques and the various tools used in professional kitchens to carve, mold, melt and form chocolate to suit every possible need. From dainty to decadent, there is something in this book to fill every fantasy about chocolate. The tasty selections include: Honey-glazed chocolate madeleines Chocolate granola Chocolate body paint Rolled chocolate cake

Book of Chocolate, Revised and Updated Edition

The Book of Chocolate takes its readers into a totally chocolate world, starting with its history and describing the many forms of chocolate in this day and age. Based on the original Flammarion title, The Book of Chocolate, this lavishly illustrated book, now edited and brought up to date, takes readers on a journey through the history and production of the world's most seductive confection: chocolate. Learn how the cocoa bean, first enjoyed by the Aztecs, has traveled around the globe to produce endless variations of chocolate. Through the eyes of food critics, chefs, journalists, and historians, this book explores the rich history of chocolate, along with a modern-day investigation of its many flavors and forms. A list of tantalizing recipes and a guide ti the finest purveyors of chocolate worldwide make this volume indispensable to chocolate lovers everywhere. If the list of recipes is not enough to bring out the chocoholic in you, just look at the delicious illustrations, specially commissioned photographs, rare vintage posters, and fine printings all in honor of this favorite confection.

Chocolate : A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light

2006 IACP Award Winner: Literary Food Writing Category! A delectable journey into the world of chocolate--from manufacturing to marketing, French boutiques to American multinationals--by the award-winning author of Olives. Science, over recent years, has confirmed what chocolate lovers have always known: the stuff is actually good for you. It's the Valentine's Day drug of choice, has more antioxidants than red wine, and triggers the same brain responses as falling in love. Nothing, in the end, can stand up to chocolate as a basic fundament to human life. In this scintillating narrative, acclaimed foodie Mort Rosenblum delves into the complex world of chocolate. From the mole poblano--chile-laced chicken with chocolate--of ancient Mexico to the contemporary French chocolatiers who produce the palets d'or--bite-sized, gold-flecked bricks of dark chocolate--to the vast empires of Hershey, Godiva, and Valrhona, Rosenblum follows the chocolate trail the world over. He visits cacao plantations, meets with growers, buyers, makers, and tasters, and investigates the dark side of the chocolate trade as well as the enduring appeal of its product. Engaging, entertaining, and revealing, Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light is a fascinating foray into this food of the gods.

Betty Crocker Baking for Today

Deliciously simple ways to make the most out of America’s Favorite Flour. Gold Medal Flour has been a baking mainstay in American homes for 125 years. In celebration of this milestone, the Betty Crocker Kitchens have teamed up with Gold Medal to present 150 great-tasting recipes using America’s favorite flour. Betty Crocker Baking for Today showcases an array of scrumptious, time-honored classics as well as fresh, new options the whole family will enjoy. With recipes like Honey-Whole Wheat Bread and Fudge Brownie Pie, baking from scratch has never been easier or more satisfying. And, 60 full-color, contemporary photographs highlight the freshness and charm of the baked goods. Complete chapters on main courses, cookies, cakes and pies, baking with kids, breads and biscuits, regional favorites, and more offer just the right blend of old and new traditions for today’s busy cooks. Measuring tips, information on different kinds of flour, high altitude directions and other how-to’s help ensure great results every time. And, in tribute to Gold Medal Flour’s rich heritage, there’s a brief history of the award-winning flour and its evolution into a kitchen essential. Complete with a stylish contemporary design and 60 full-color photographs, this book will help cooks rediscover Gold Medal Flour and make the most out of this versatile pantry staple–whatever the meal or the occasion. And to make sure home cooks know about the book, General Mills will advertise it on tens of millions of Gold Medal Flour bags!

Ice Cream!

This irresistibly appealing book covers the world of ice cream, exploring classic flavors such as vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. And for the more adventurous palate, there is Cranberry Cosmo Sorbet, Caramelized Fig and Orange Ice Cream, Mango and Basil Granita, and Chocolate Peanut Butter Wave. The recipes are made from simple, luxurious ingredients such as creamy organic dairy products; rich, dark chocolate; and ripe, seasonal fruit. All are unbelievably delicious and surprisingly simple to make at home. You don't even have to have an ice cream maker!

Brownie Mix Bliss

Incredibly, all 175-plus recipes in Brownie Mix Bliss begin with a standard box of brownie mix. What's more, all the recipes have been streamlined for easy, everyday baking. The problem, if you can call it that, will be deciding which treat to make first. How about Mocha Buttercream Brownies? Or Snickers Supreme Brownies? Or maybe Mint Julep Ganache Brownies? And that's but the tip of the chocolate iceberg. While brownie mix can be used to create all manner of mouthwatering concoctions, it can also be transformed into countless other very easy, very chocolate desserts ranging from sophisticated biscotti, soufflé cakes, madeleines, and cheesecakes to nostalgic drop cookies ice cream novelties, gooey layered bar cookies, and so much more. In addition to the recipes, Saulsbury offers Brownie Points, or tips for baking success. For the accomplished baker as well as the novice, Brownie Mix Bliss takes the chocolate dessert to a new level of, well, bliss!

Ultimate Frozen Dessert Book

The latest edition to the bestselling Ultimate series offers a diverse menu of frozen desserts from simple gelati, sherbets, and granita made from scratch, to ice cream pies, cakes, and bon bons made with favorite store-bought flavors. All the classics are here--Raspberry Sherbet, Lemon Granita, and homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches, as well as cooling indulgences such as Frozen Key Lime Mousse Cake, Frozen S'mores Pie, and Frozen Tiramisu. Here, too, are delicious ends for year-round holiday feasts, including egg nog, pumpkin, and chestnut gelati.

Book of Chocolate

Aztec legend has it that chocolate was brought on a sunbeam from Paradise, and wisdom and power came from eating it. Today, world consumption of coca bean products exceeds 600,000 tons. This fact-packed look at the amazing history of chocolate traces its meandering route around the world to its status today as the oldest and most beloved treat.

Cupcakes Year-Round

Cupcakes have always been crowd-pleasers at school birthday parties and neighborhood bake sales. But today they are also among the hottest culinary trends for sophisticated adults. Cupcakes Year-Round offers a platter full of delicious, grown-up recipes-Black Forest Cherry Cupcakes, Hot Buttered Rum Cakes, Carrot and Zucchini Cakes, and many more-along with kid-friendly PB & J's, Snowballs, and Spelling Bee Alphabet Cakes. In addition to 50 tasty recipes, organized by season (Easter Egg Nests for spring, Reindeer Snacks for winter), the book includes helpful information on the basics of making cupcakes, from mixing to icing, as well as instructions for piping techniques and tips on customizing cupcakes with syrups, fillings, and decorations. Mix-and-match batter and icing combinations give the baker more than 100 delectable cupcake options. With its unique easel format and retro design, this book proves that cupcakes are just as much fun to make as they are to eat.

Old Fashioned Homemade Ice Cream

This informative, enthusiastic guide provides complete instructions and helpful advice for making delicious homemade ice cream, either in a hand-cranked or electric freezer. Includes 58 exotic, mouthwatering ice cream recipes, plus recipes for toppings, sauces, more. Introduction. Illustrated throughout.

Tate's Bake Shop Cookbook

Kathleen King made her reputation—and a thriving bakery business—on her famous chocolate chip cookies, a longtime favorite in the Hamptons and beyond. In Tate's Bake Shop Cookbook, she brings her touch for simple, utterly delicious cookies, muffins, pies, cakes, scones and brownies to every home baker. Each one of Kathleen’s recipes is easy to make at home, built from scratch, and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. Most of her recipes can be made in less time than it would take to go and get a store-bought version! Some of the recipes you’ll want to make again and again include: Blueberry muffins Ginger scones Sour cream pound cake Zvi’s cinnamon swirl bread Old-fashioned soft sugar cookies Double peanut chocolate cookies Beach brownies Peach pie Apple cranberry crisp Carrot cake Chocolate chip cake There’s even a section with recipes for energy bars, granola, and other healthy treats that Kathleen—an avid outdoorswoman—developed for biking and hiking trips. You don’t need a special occasion for Kathleen’s recipes—but she can help with terrific ideas for birthday cakes, picnic basket goodies, bake sale offerings and more. Tate's Bake Shop Cookbook will get you into the kitchen and out with a little heaven on a plate.

Brownies & Bars : More Than 70 Inspiring Recipes

Conran Kitchen Series - The gift-quality cookbooks in this beautifully designed series are each packed with more than 70 fun and inspiring recipes, organized around an ingredient or occasion. Because mealtime is about more than food, the series emphasizes simple and creative ways to serve the dishes. Easy to make--packed with chocolate--they might be the most perfect treat in all of human history. These delectable recipes for brownies and other tray-baked sweets include simple step-by-step instructions, cooking and preparation time, and special tips to help things turn out just right. Chocolate Brownies Plum Cake Fudgy Lemon Bars Espresso Slices Pumpkin Cake Chocolate Fudge Squares