From cookies to breads, cakes to pastries! Find your new favorite sweet or savory bake with this list of enticing baking books.
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A collection of 100-plus unfussy, oh-so-good sweet and savory recipes inspired by the hit online community Bake Club. Recipes are a mix of the online bake club’s greatest hits as well as all-new future classics.
Authoritative and accessible, The King Arthur Baking Company Big Book of Bread is exceptional for its range: the 125 recipes for yeasted and naturally leavened breads are designed to appeal to novices and advanced bakers alike, as well as those who are deep into sourdough. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook from Libby.
Here are 88 approachable recipes that are firmly rooted in classical French technique but travel far and wide. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook from hoopla.
Providing countless solutions and tips for commonly encountered baking problems, this updated and expanded cake cookbook provides precise instructions for baking and decorating spectacular special-occasion cakes of any size. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook from Libby.
Cookie Swap! Is packed with theme ideas, planning information, and tips for tackling the cookie swap math-plus more than 50 delectable, failproof recipes for cookies both classic and innovative.
Desi Bakes offers a new world of over-the-top glamour and bling to home bakers and industry pros alike who wish to build on their knowledge of Indian flavors and traditions.
Armed with a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry, Katarina Cermelj lays out the science behind baking and the ingredients that make it work, so you can easily adapt your baking to your diet and lifestyle, and still make sure it tastes spectacular.
Bring your kitchen to life with the smell of tantalizing ingredients like cardamom, rose, orange blossom, and pistachios. In this exciting cookbook, Lamees AttarBashi highlights the recipes she grew up on, as well as her own spins on the classics.
Most of these recipes are easier than you’d think, from beer pretzels to Danish dream cake. But in baking, the little things count—so Milk Street is here to help you avoid pitfalls with recipes that you can count on.
Great British Bake Off finalist Ruby Bhogal is here to delight us with a flexible approach to baking tasty, sweet treats that give you double helpings of temptation.
In Pan y Dulce, baker Ford helps home bakers embrace the extraordinary world of Latin American baking and break free of Eurocentric approaches to the craft.
An essential guide to baking that takes away the fear of baking failure by combining easy-to-follow, science-based advice with 100 reliable and delicious recipes for both novices and more experienced bakers.