The transformation of a few ingredients into a crackling-crusted sourdough is nothing short of miraculous. Complex and fascinating chemical and biological processes are taking place in your mixing bowl and oven, thanks to wild yeast and bacteria, and the natural sugars, enzymes, and proteins found in flour. However, baking a great loaf of sourdough does not have to be complicated or overwhelming. Understanding the science behind these processes makes all the difference. In Sourdough by Science, molecular biologist Karyn Newman provides a reliable path to sourdough success by arming you with informative descriptions of what's happening on a molecular scale and a strategy for learning from and optimizing your own bakes. Recipes are delectable, doable, and dependable-from a Rustic Boule to Wild Challah to Hazelnut Buns- teaching you the hows and whys of bread making along the way. Sourdough by Science has the answers to an array of sourdough questions: What is a sourdough starter? How do different flours respond? When should you add salt to a dough? How does the crust get crisp and crackly? The book makes it easy for readers to develop sourdough intuition with an invaluable and wide-ranging troubleshooting guide. Complete with resources and step-by-step photos, this is an essential book to build your bread-baking expertise.

This collage of mini-cake designs is for every level of decorator. Designs range from simple ideas for novice bakers to intricate work from a Food Network Cake Challenge gold medal winner. Miniature delicacies submitted from a wide range of geographic locations in the United States, Canada, and South America are illustrated in full color. Make delightful creations for birthdays, special occasions, and holidays, and even enter a cupcake category at a future cake show. Helpful tips and detailed instructions for making cupcakes accompany over 340 photographs of cupcake designs and techniques.

Since its 1990 publication, Rose's Christmas Cookies has been a phenomenal success. Who can resist Chocolate-Dipped Melting Moments Cookies or moist Mini-Cheesecakes with Lemon Curd . . . or David Shamah's Jumbles, a fabulous cross between a chocolate-chip cookie and a chunky candy bar bursting with raisins, chocolate chips, and pecans. Whether you need a cookie to decorate your tree or grace your mantelpiece (cookies like Stained Glass or Christmas Wreaths), a sweet to send (Mahogany Butter Crunch Toffee, Maple Macadamia Bars), or a special holiday treat for your dinner party (Praline Truffle Cups, Chocolate-Pistachio Marzipan Spirals), you'll find that perfect something here. Complete with 60 cookie recipes and a color photograph of each cookie for handy reference, this easy-to-use and fun-to-read book will result in scrumptious, festive, and splendid-looking cookies every time.

The Pie and Pastry Bible is your magic wand for baking the pies, tarts, and pastries of your dreams -- the definitive work by the country's top baker.

• More than 300 recipes, 200 drawings of techniques and equipment, and 70 color pictures of finished pies, tarts, and pastries
• Easy-to-follow recipes for fruit pies, chiffon pies, custard pies, ice-cream pies, meringue pies, chocolate pies, tarts and tartlets, turnovers, dumplings, biscuits, scones, crostadas, galettes, strudel, fillo, puff pastry, croissants (chocolate, too), Danish, brioche, sticky buns, cream puffs, and profiteroles
• All kinds of fillings, glazes, toppings, and sauces, including pastry cream, frangipane, Chiboust, fruit curds, ice creams, fondant, fruit preserves, streusel, meringues, ganache, caramel, and hot fudge
• A separate chapter featuring foolproof flaky, tender, and original crusts of every kind imaginable. Here are a few: Flaky Cream Cheese Pie Crust, Flaky Cheddar Cheese Pie Crust, Miracle Flaky Lard Pie Crust, and Flaky Goose Fat Pie Crust; Bittersweet Chocolate, Coconut, Ginger, and Sweet Nut Cookie Crusts; and Vanilla, Gingersnap, Chocolate, and Graham Cracker Crumb Crusts
• Countless tips that solve any problem, including the secrets to making a juicy fruit pie with a crisp bottom crust and a lemon meringue pie that doesn't weep
• How to make a tender and flaky pie crust in under three minutes
• How to make the best brownie ever into a crustless tart with puddles of ganache
• Exciting savory recipes, including meat loaf wrapped in a flaky Cheddar cheese crust and a roasted poblano quiche
• Extensive decorating techniques for the beginning baker and professional alike that show you how to make chocolate curls, pipe rosettes, crystallize flowers and leaves, and more
• Detailed information on ingredients and equipment, previously available only to professionals
• The wedding cake reconceived as a Seven-Tier Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse Tart
• Pointers for Success follow the recipes, guaranteeing perfect results every time

Make Every Loaf a Work of Art Get ready to bake bread that looks as phenomenal as it tastes. From graphic artist and baker Brittany Wood comes a gorgeous and comprehensive guide to all things sourdough scoring. With lush full-page photography, step-by-step tutorials and expert tips, Brittany covers every skill you'll need to successfully create one-of-a-kind patterns on your loaves. Learn how the depth and timing of your cuts can affect the way your lines bake and burst, and never be disappointed by deflated dough again as Brittany's calm, encouraging voice guides you through a huge variety of dazzling designs. As an added bonus, Brittany includes her tried-and-true master method for high-hydration sourdough. She then takes it a delicious step further with 10 additional recipes for incredible flavors, like Sharp Cheddar-Rosemary Sourdough and Chocolate-Cinnamon Sourdough, as well as gorgeously shaped goods like Orange Brioche Festive Star Bread. With this inspiring resource, you'll bake your creativity and artistry into every loaf you make and bring your sourdough scoring dreams to life with bread that never looked more beautiful.

Bread Machines are more popular than ever, and Bread Machines For Dummies makes it easy to use this popular kitchen tool to create a variety of homemade breads.

Bread Machines have become a staple of the American kitchen. Over the years as these convenient appliances have dropped in price and increased in quality, they've found their way into millions of American households. But when it comes to creating a variety of delicious homemade breads with this ingenious device, many are at a loss for anything besides your standard white bread.

Look no further! With Bread Machines For Dummies, Tom Lacalamita and Glenna Vance show that a wide variety of delicious homemade baked goods can come from this machine. Clearly explaining the finer points and special features of various machines, even a dummy will be enjoying delicious, freah-baked breads at the touch of a button. Whole wheat, sourdough, nut breads, holiday breads, you name it, with 75 delicious recipes these experts show that there's much more to a bread machine than just your standard white. And even if you are just looking to have a fresh loaf of your favorite sandwich bread waiting for you in the morning, let these experts show you how to get the most out of your bread machine.

The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible Learn over 150 cake decorating techniques with The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible, the international bestseller from renowned sugarcraft expert Lindy Smith. This is the ultimate guide to contemporary cake designs - you will learn how to make decorated cakes, starting with basic sugarcraft tools, baking recipes and ingredients, and finishing with advanced modelling techniques, including royal icing stencilling, brush embroidery, buttercream piping, using sugar cutters and moulds, making cake jewellery, and so much more! Get creative straight away with simple, step-by-step instructions for more than 80 celebration cake, mini cake, cupcake, and cookie designs. Essential tips and advice are included for all skill levels, from complete beginners to the most confident of cake decorators, and you can even learn how to make Lindy Smith's signature 'wonky cakes'. Inside The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible: The Basics - delicious cake and cupcake recipes, and recipes for making your own sugarpaste (rolled fondant), royal icing, sugar glue, buttercream, and more! This section of the book also includes instructions for making round, square and ball cakes, assembling tiered cakes, and carving and assembling wonky cake designs. Cake Decorating Techniques - here you will find 11 chapters each covering a huge range of essential cake decorating techniques, all explained with easy-to-follow step instructions and clear photography. Topics covered include: Carving Colour Painting Stencilling Cutters Flowers Embossing Tools Piping Moulds Cake Jewellery Contemporary Cake Designs - step by step instructions teach you how to make each of the 80 amazing cake designs featured in the book, from tiered cakes to cute cupcake and cookies. With this comprehensive guide you will discover everything you need to know to create celebration cakes that are beautiful, unique and truly contemporary.

The essential reference to modern cake decorating with buttercream icing, this remarkable book demonstrates more than 50 innovative techniques in beautiful step-by-step photographic sequences. With over 40 stunning cake designs to create at home, from simple cupcakes to three-tiered wonders, you will discover the sheer accessibility of buttercream, which needs very little specialist equipment or skill to get started. Start by perfecting a stable buttercream recipe that also tastes delicious then learn how to pipe simple textures and patterns, buttercream roses and an array of other flowers. From there you will learn how to create a myriad of creative effects in buttercream using diverse techniques such as stamping, stencilling, palette knife painting, buttercream transfers, lace and crochet effects, brushed embroidery, marbling, blending, writing, embellishing and more! If you're a beginner, you will learn new techniques that you can put into practice straight away on easy, single-tier projects and cupcakes; while more experienced cake decorators will enjoy mastering some of the more intricate and advanced buttercream piping techniques and create stunning three-tier cake designs. This is the only complete guide to creating buttercream cakes, bringing a traditional cake-decorating method bang up to date for the modern baker! Praise for the book: "The Contemporary Buttercream Bible is an absolute game changer in the industry of cake art. I've never seen techniques and talent presented in such a way as to be concurrently hugely aspirational yet completely approachable. I look forward to learning all the skills that I, as an artist in rolled fondant, have only the most rudimentary grasp of. Not since Cakewalk by Margaret Braun have I been this excited about a cake book. Bravo!" - Chef Duff Goldman, Ace of Cakes "If you love buttercream you'll adore this book. Lots of fascinating techniques to try and lovely ideas to develop. Thank you Valeri and Christina for generously sharing your buttercream secrets." - Lindy Smith, author of The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible

This book features 25 irresistible sweet bakes. Celebrate the fabulous world of home baking with these delicious tried-and-tested cupcake recipes to enjoy at any time of day. It includes all the essentials about making, baking and decorating cupcakes, with easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photography. Recipes include Fresh Fig and Raspberry Cupcakes, gooey Butterscotch Cupcakes, Chocolate Truffle Cupcakes, as well as seasonal and special occasion cupcakes. Glace icing, buttercream, fondant, chocolate, marzipan, fresh fruits and pretty flowers - all are used to add an individual touch to every cake. This beautifully presented book contains 25 gorgeous recipes for cupcakes. A concise introduction details the basic equipment required and presents basic cupcake batters. It also covers a wonderful array of ideas for piped cream toppings, glace icings and other ingenious decorations. 25 recipes then follow, with something for every taste. Choose from Honey and Spice Cakes, Blueberry Buns and the luxurious Chocolate Mint-filled Cupcakes.Included too are more unusual recipes with sensational toppings like Madeleine Cakes with Raspberry Buttercream, Pistachio Flower Cupcakes and quince-scented Apple and Calvados Cake. All the recipes are written with clear instructions and are illustrated throughout. Whatever the occasion, with this selection of recipes you are sure to impress friends and family.

Celebrate deliciously and beautifully! Master sugarcraft sculptor Alan Dunn shows how to create festive cakes decorated with cascading, lifelike floral arrangements built from sugarpaste. Make your cakes the centerpiece of any celebration with romantic flowers, lush foliage, brightly colored fruits, and fantasy butterflies. Alan's easy-to-follow directions, accompanied by stunning, mouthwatering photographs, cover 35 floral varieties and 18 charming cake designs for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, christenings, holidays, and more. If you're looking for the ultimate guide to sugarcrafting, this book won't fail to impress.

Double the cookie, double the fun. Ice cream sandwiches, whoopie pies, macarons, homemade Oreos-this irresistible baking book has recipes for all these delicious sandwich cookies and plenty more. From Browned Butter Blondie creator Heather Mubarak, Stuffed features 65 mix-and-match cookie sandwiches for every occasion and craving, including both sweet and savory bakes that range from childhood classics with a twist (Nutter Butters, Chipwiches!) to sophisticated, party-ready treats (Strawberry Shortcake Macarons, Parmesan Polenta Crackers with Chive Cream Cheese). A whole chapter dedicated to swirly buttercreams, smooth ganache, fruity jams, and more lets you experiment with different cookie-filling pairings to your heart's content. Or leave out the filling altogether for a super simple bake - the possibilities are endless! Home bakers of all levels will appreciate the flexible, choose-your-own-adventure format, while fans of Snacking Cakes, Dessert Person, and 100 Cookies will delight in a new trove of crave-worthy recipes. In a chunky package with a puffy case and a photo of every cookie sandwich, this book is stuffed with all the cookie recipes you'll ever need.

A follow-up to the successful 'The ScandiKitchen' (published September 2015), this new book from Bronte Aurell features over 60 recipes for cakes, bakes and treats from all over Scandinavia. From indulgent cream confections to homely and comforting fruit cakes and traditional breads, sweet buns and pastries. FIKA is a Swedish word meaning to meet up for a cup of coffee or tea over something delicious. It is also the word for the delicious treats themselves. Swedes traditionally stop twice a day for fika: taking a much-needed break from the daily grind. People fika with family, colleagues, friends, children and even go on fika dates. HYGGE (pronounced hue-guh) is a word that originated in Norway but is now mainly used in Denmark. It means 'a sublime state of cosiness you feel when you are with loved ones and nothing else matters'. Hygge can be enhanced by the addition of a log fire, a good film, a cup of something warm and a sweet treat...hence the ideal combination of the two terms. Chapters are divided into Biscuits and Cookies, Tray and No bakes, Everyday Fika, Little Fancy Cakes, Celebration Cakes and Bread and Batters. This beautifully illustrated, authentic guide is a celebration of Scandinavian baking in all its glory. It is evocative of cosy days shared with friends, slowing down and taking the time to enjoy simple, homemade, wholesome pleasures - encouraging a lifestyle to aspire to. With features on special Scandi winter celebrations, their baking traditions and how to bring fika and hygge into your life.

Planning your wedding is all about the details, and this book will help make one detail much easier, understandable, and fun - the wedding cake. Through 346 images, a delicious variety of cakes will whet your appetite and spark your creativity, as well as help you decide on the type, style, and design for your big day. Do you prefer the splendor of an all-white cake or one with modern simplicity? White buttercream roses and lilies or fondant flowers and leaves? Maybe you'd like icing lace to match your wedding dress? The choices are made much easier by using this wedding cake guide. Details of the beautiful cake designs accompany the images while the text explores the history and traditions involved with wedding cakes. With a glossary of cake decoration terms and tips on choosing a cake designer, this is a great resource for any bride (and groom)-to-be, wedding planner, and bakery owner.

The Magnolia Kitchen community requested more amazing images of her stunning creations and more how-to instructions, and Bets has delivered. In Magnolia Kitchen Design Bets takes you on a journey of inspiration through several cake design projects, each described in detail with a written brief, design sketch, mood board and the completed cake. There are also step-by-step guides for key design techniques like stencilling, lace work, using fresh florals, stacking a three-tier cake for travel, hand painting and more. With great new recipes for cakes, icings and fillings, this book is the complete package to inspire bakers and cake designers at every level. It's another beautiful creation from Bets and will be loved by her fans, old and new.

Blooming marvellous cake decorating ideas for spring, summer, autumn and winter... all made with delicious buttercream! This stunning collection of floral buttercream cake decorating projects for all seasons is brought to you by the world's leading instructors of buttercream techniques, Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes, bestselling authors of The Contemporary Buttercream Bible, 100 Buttercream Flowers and Buttercream One-Tier Wonders. Bursting at the seams with beautiful buttercream blooms, this bumper cake decorating book gives you all the inspiration and know-how you need to create sensational floral cakes all year round. Each of the 16 design concepts is presented as a spectacular tiered cake, a more accessible single tier cake and a beginner-friendly batch of cupcakes, making over 48 projects in total! From piping buttercream flowers on cupcakes to creating jaw-dropping buttercream wedding cakes--this is the ultimate guide to cake decorating with buttercream flowers.

**YORKSHIRE PUDDINGS ARE NOT JUST FOR SUNDAYS** The beloved hollowed-out cup shape of the Yorkshire Pud can house delicious fillings to suit any time of the day or week. From breakfast to dessert and everything in between, use these pages to transform the humble Yorkshire Pudding into mouth-watering wraps, pizzas, blinis, canapes, burritos, tacos or even burgers. Then whip up some scrumptiously sweet pancakes with any leftovers! Celebrate the untapped versatility of the Yorkshire Pudding and make life a little bit batter.

There's a new kind of cake that is causing a sensation - cakes that don't make gravitational sense, and which people won't believe are real. Awe-inspiring and often amusing, they are a fantastic way to create a show-stopping conversation piece, as well as of course offering something delicious you can share and eat! Here you will find surprises such as a suspended tap over a bubbling bathtub full of yellow ducks, or a watering can being poured over pretty cake flowerpots, and a giftwrapped box being ribbon-tied by a bluebird. And of course there are fun cakes for children (of all ages), from an impossibly stacked set of blocks to cascading sweeties.

Lauren Chattman presents simple and delicious recipes made from only the most wholesome ingredients. The heavenly creations include Citrus Pound Cake, Raspberry Yellow Cake Squares and Mississippi Mud Cake. Designed with the busy baker in mind, this intoxicating cookbook shows how to make long-lasting cakes in very little time. Few things are as satisfying as a sweet snack that's mouth-wateringly moist. So skip the cookie jar and head for the cake keeper. In "Cake Keeper Cakes", Lauren Chattman presents simple and delicious recipes that stand up to everyday eating. Made from only the most wholesome ingredients, the heavenly creations include Espresso-Hazelnut Bundt Cake, Banana and Bittersweet Chocolate Cake, Citrus Pound Cake, Raspberry Yellow Cake Squares and Mississippi Mud Cake. Designed with the busy baker in mind, this intoxicating cookbook shows how to make long-lasting cakes in very little time.

Irresistible Plant-Based Treats with Less Than 300 Calories Per Serving Enjoy vegan takes on decadent cakes, gooey brownies, flaky biscuits, savory breads and so much more without worrying about your waistline! Jillian Glenn, author of Easy Low-Cal Vegan Eats, is back with 60 scrumptious recipes that taste like the ultimate splurge--but their low calorie count means you can feel good about enjoying them. Jillian shares her secrets to recreating your favorite treats, whether you're craving something sweet, like Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies and Rich Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting, or something savory, like Vegan Pull-Apart Cheesy Bread and Salted Soft Baked Pretzel Bites. Thanks to generous serving sizes that will leave you feeling satisfied, you won't believe these are low-calorie or vegan. And with the option to make the recipes gluten-free, you can easily adapt each dish to meet your dietary needs. Jillian's use of fuss-free ingredients and clever techniques, like combining traditional sugar with no-calorie sweeteners, will have you eager to bake your way through every chapter--and her straightforward, easy-to-follow instructions guarantee perfect results every time.

We need to eat more whole grains. A diet centered on white flour and refined carbohydrates isn t good for our bodies or our waistlines. Beyond whole grains are the healthiest "ancient" grains, including teff, buckwheat, and quinoa. These grains are free of gluten and additives, but can they and flours such as 100 percent whole wheat, farro, barley, and spelt be used to make delicious desserts?

The answer is a resounding YES, thanks to The Sweet Side of Ancient Grains. With recipes made from both ancient grains and more familiar 100 percent whole grains, Erin Dooner has created a must-have cookbook for anyone who wants to eat healthy but is "blessed" with a sweet tooth. Unlike previous efforts at whole-grain dessert baking, this book relies on 100 percent whole and ancient grains and incorporates natural sugars wherever possible all without compromising on results."