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I highly recommend this book. It is like baking with a friend at your side to help you create a successful dessert. Dorie Rocks.
The instructions are very clear. I have over one hundred cookbooks and you can tell which ones are really good by how messy they are. Each recipe is delicious. This cookbook is full of chocolate smudges, sugar crumbs and honey stains. Every single recipe is fabulous. I'm working my way through the book and haven't found a bad recipe in the bunch. If you want a cookbook that is fun to read and that you will really use, this is the one.
This book is so popular there is even an online group devoted to Baking with Dorie. Dorie Greenspan's style of recipe writing and her knack for description make this book a pleasure to read AND to bake with. [.].Put your trust in Dorie, you won't be sorry. Full of beautiful pictures, tips for success and variations, this book is a source of inspiration and also a fall-back manual for classics. Recipes range from basic yellow cake to Pecan Honey Sticky Buns or Caramel Peanut Topped Brownie Cake. With a few recipes I've been skeptical about flavor combinations but they always end up being great. I love the easy, casual tone of the book too.
I keep trying new ones and each is better than the last. this is the queen mother of all desserts. Greenspan gives detailed instructions for the most delicious recipes ever. Ms. I've been baking most of my life, well over 50 years, and I have countless cookbooks, many of which are baking specific. What a treasure trove of baking recipes. If you are a lemon lover (and there ARE many of us out there). But my very favorite, the one my family swooned over and I still dream about at night is "The Most Extraordinary French Lemon Cream Tart".
Lemon velvet. The "Cornmeal Shortbread Cookies" were perfection. This one is the BEST. The crust is like a shortbread cookie, nice and rich and crunchy, but the filling.oh, my. The "All In One Holiday Bundt Cake" was moist and had just about every holiday ingredient possible in one cake. The cornmeal gave the buttery shortbread a nice, gritty CRUNCH that was SO GOOD. Tart and sweet at the same time, but balanced. I can't wait to try more.
I have recommended this book to many of my baking friends and everyone has thanked me. While viewing the recipes, you feel like you are reading notes and directions from an old friend.
Dorie Greenspan writes this for all bakers. I am long overdue in writing a review of this fantastic book.
Dorie writes with a clear and easy style. An expert baker will enjoy the book and a neophyte baker will enjoy the ability to create fabulous sweets because of Dorie's guidance.
It is a welcome pleasure to find a cookbook that explains details of the baking process, what to expect in results (World Peace cookies: "the rounds are likely to crack as you're cutting them, don't be concerned, just squeeze the bits back onto each cookie") gives "playing around" ideas to create different outcomes by changing flavor, additions, etc. I love that she shares the history of the recipes, such as source for her rugelach cookies.
I can't wait for her next book, "Around the French Table".
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