Baker's Field Guide
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Who wants cupcakes? Long a staple dessert of birthdays and holidays, cupcakes are more popular than ever kids of all ages. In A Baker's Field Guide to Cupcakes, you'll find 15 master recipes for cake batters and frostings and 60 easy-to-follow recipes for creatively decorated cupcakes for holidays, special occasions, or anytime you need a treat! Adults will enjoy ringing in the New Year with "Champagne” Cupcakes or presenting someone special with a plateful of Heartfelt Cupcakes. On Mother's Day, kids can help bake Mom a batch of Breakfast-in-Bed Cupcakes, and they'll be delighted to dig into Dirt and Worms Cupcakes at a birthday party. With a color photograph of every recipe, A Baker's Field Guide to Cupcakes gives you everything you need to make scrumptious, fun, and irresistible cupcakes at any time of the year!
A must - have for chocolate lovers and a fresh, original take on a favorite subject, A Baker's Field Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies is a collection of 75 mouthwatering cookies presented in a user - friendly format and fun design. America's favorite cookie gets the star treatment with recipes ranging from kid - friendly to decidedly grown up, using white, milk, semisweet, and bittersweet chocolate chips and chunks. Every cookie is photographed in full color, and each recipe features entries explaining the Type (drop cookie, rolled, shaped, or bar), Description (appearance, taste, surrounding traditions), Field Notes (tips and further information), Lifespan (storage information and how long the cookie will stay fresh), and Related Species (variations). Special graphic icons indicate which cookies are fun to make with kids, which freeze well, which ship well, which are quick to make, and more. There are also loads of " Good Cookie Tips" sprinkled throughout. Often the first cookie that kids learn to bake, this easy - to - pull - together combination of basic ingredients becomes a deliciously addictive springboard for a lifetime of experimentation.
The world of chip - filled possibilities is huge; Toll House relatives include Milk Chocolate Chip Banana Streusel Cookies and Espresso White Chocolate Chunk Cookies. Newfangled cookies include Caramel Chocolate Turtle Cookies and Coconut Chocolate Chip Snowballs. And cookie boundaries are explored with Mocha Walnut Chip Meringues and Chocolate Polka - Dot Mint Crackles.
The world of chip - filled possibilities is huge; Toll House relatives include Milk Chocolate Chip Banana Streusel Cookies and Espresso White Chocolate Chunk Cookies. Newfangled cookies include Caramel Chocolate Turtle Cookies and Coconut Chocolate Chip Snowballs. And cookie boundaries are explored with Mocha Walnut Chip Meringues and Chocolate Polka - Dot Mint Crackles.
For those of us who remember biting into a warm doughnut, fresh from the stovetop, or for the younger generation who might be experiencing that decadent confectionary for the first time, few can resist the allure of this nostalgic pastry that has become a staple in American baking. A Baker's Field Guide to Doughnuts is the newest addition to the best-selling series from baking expert, Dede Wilson. In this whimsical collection, Wilson convinces us that homemade is the only way to enjoy the best-quality doughnuts, and moreover, doughnuts are no more difficult to make than a birthday cake or a batch of cookies. Where home bakers had once been daunted by the challenges of frying, flipping, and frosting, Wilson breaks down each doughnut with step-by-step instructions that are simple enough to guide anyone through creating doughnuts that look as beautiful as the photographs throughout the book. In over 60 different recipes, she includes all the essentials like cider doughnuts, old-fashioned buttermilk doughnuts, and French crullers, but adds a healthy dose of creativity as well. In the first part of the book she provides "The Master Recipes," a variety of basic doughnuts, frostings, fillings, and glazes. The second part contains "The Field Guide," where she puts together the master recipes in decadent combinations like chocolate caramel-bourbon-pecan doughnuts, creme brulee doughnuts, and German chocolate cake doughnuts. Innumerable in their variations and just plain irresistible, doughnuts are a baking delight won't go out of style. Wilson both celebrates and reinvigorates the doughnut-baking tradition in this guide, essential to any baker's cookbook collection.