From Christmas cookies and pecan pie to winter-themed cupcakes and sweet giftable confections, there’s a special treat to help celebrate your favorite festive occasion. In these colorful, inspirational pages, you’ll find recipes for beloved baked sweets to mark holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve, as well as ideas for entertaining and gift giving. The more than 50 enticing recipes include everything from cookies, candies, cakes, pies, and cupcakes, to muffins, sweet breads, rolls, and waffles.

Consider this a comprehensive book among every home baker’s resources, the first go-to to learn how to master basic baking recipes, from the family favorites to the holiday specialties. Along with suggestions for essential supplies and ingredient substitutions, bakers will find their creativity exploring new grounds, whether improvising those cakes, making your breads vegans, or trying a new flavor altogether. You can also check out this title as eBook on Hoopla and as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.

The Everyday Baker is the ultimate encyclopedia for aspiring bakers.   Each technique is shown step-by-step with close to 1,000 photographs.

Become a master baker with Peter Reinhart’s revised The Bread Baker’s Apprentice:  Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread.  Reinhart is a leader in America’s artisanal bread movement.