Cookbooks, cooking reads, and books about food
Junior’s restaurants in New York are known for great food and delicious cheesecakes. Junior’s Dessert Cookbook contains 75 recipes including their famous cheesecakes, layered cakes, and pies. The chapter on the basics includes sauces, buttercreams, and decorations for the different desserts. And if you become …
Another good read from Bullock-Prado, even with all the mistakes. (Read the review to get the link for the publisher’s errata). An edited version of her Scraps Tartlets is also here. After reading Sugar Baby (see the review here), I was excited to read …
Vintage Cakes by Julie Richardson. Julie Richardson brings old recipes to new life in her book Vintage Cakes. Her re-discovered treasure trove of old recipes left by the previous occupants of her Baker and Spice Bakery in Portland, OR, was put to use, as …
Confetti Cakes for Kids This isn’t so much as a kid’s baking book, rather than a great idea book and pattern book for creating lovely and inventive cakes for kids. The book I purchased is hefty and hard covered, and since I already have The …
The Cake Decorator’s Motif Bible (Sheila Lampkin, Quarto, 2007, ISBN: 9781554072811) is nothing but the goods, with all the illustrations you need to complete any flat fondant project. This review was published on the Pastry Sampler blog. Enjoy, Renee Shelton 🙂