The year was 1982, and Martha Stewart published her first book, Entertaining. This immediate best-seller, based on Martha's experience as a professional caterer, introduced readers to a new style of entertaining and a new style of cookbook - one that was gloriously photographed and filled with a wealth of information on the art of hospitality. In the years following, Martha wrote eight more books on food and entertaining, continuing to inspire a growing legion of fans with beautiful food, simply but elegantly presented. This book is the culmination of those years of publishing. More than 1,600 recipes and variations - all the recipes from Entertaining, Quick Cook, Pies & Tarts, Hors d'Oeuvres, Quick Cook Menus, Gardening, Weddings, Christmas, and Menus for Entertaining - are gathered together in a single volume. Thoroughly revised and updated, The Martha Stewart Cookbook includes a new introduction by Martha, new step-by-step illustrations, new menus, and sidebars and tips on subjects as varied as freezing pastry, selecting the best fruit, and setting the table.

In Postal Bakes, Lucy Burton shares over 60 simple yet decadent recipes made to be sent through the post - all using the same tin. Featuring an array of fudgy brownies, sharing cookie slabs, sponge cakes, indulgent truffles and more, there is something to please even the most discerning sweet tooth. Lucy also shares how to pack baked goods so they look beautiful and arrive in one piece. So, whether it's a birthday, get-well-soon, new home or 'just because', make someone's day by posting them a homemade treat.

The masters of home baking, Australian Women's Weekly, bring you delightful bakes for every occasion! Enjoy classic bakes for any occasion alongside exciting and original variations - a host of sweet and savoury recipes, from delicious snacks and satisfying desserts, to wholesome lunches and comforting dinners. Add a creative twist to take your banana bread to the next level, shake things up with four easy ways to transform a classic quiche, and enjoy a real treat with six ways to elevate the humble chocolate chip cookie. This home baking book is perfect for anyone looking for all-new tried-and-tested, fuss-free recipes! It includes: - More than 100 recipes and exciting variations, all photographed, covering both sweet and savoury bakes for snacks, meals, desserts, and treats - No baking recipe is repeated from one book to another - Ingredients are recognisable and readily available in all markets - Each book covers a range of cuisines, types of dishes and dietary needs, creating balanced everyday meals - A mixture of classic recipes and innovative ideas Whether you're looking to make a delicious snack, satisfying dessert, wholesome lunch or comforting dinner, Australian Women's Weekly Baking serves up fabulous baking ideas for tasty treats and meals! Each recipe is written with simple step-by-step instructions and is accompanied by a useful baking tip and a full-colour photograph, so you can cook with complete confidence. Australian Women's Weekly is a series of creative, accessible and reliable recipe books that taps into Australia's healthy and vibrant food culture. It's centred on simplicity, great produce, and multicultural living. Look out for Australian Women's Weekly One Pot and discover more than 90 hearty, delicious, and quick everyday meals you can create in just one pot.

Hester se Brood is set in a small town in the Little Karoo, where Hester van der Walt bakes bread in a woodfired oven for the local market in MacGregor. The book is inhabited by the spirit of the poets C. Louis Leipoldt and Martin Versfeld, as Hester van der Walt has the same deep rooted, intuitive connection between food and soul, especially food that is prepared with traditional ingredients and methods. Along with generous portions of soul food comes a down to earth delicious recipes that show you how to bake classic European breads, like ciabatta, focaccia, kitke and baguettes as well as good old-fashioned sourdough breads. Van der Walt's fine sense of humour, and her valuing of the magic interplay between fire and wood, grain and salt, water and yeast and time - the basics elements necessary for baking real bread, makes this book as irresistible as the savour of freshly baked bread, as it comes out of the oven.

Recipes so delicious you won't know what's missing! Discover gluten-free cakes, desserts, pies, and bread that will make even the most finicky a convert. Writer and confectionary mastermind, Jennifer Fisher, has chosen 100 gluten-free recipes to share with you. Whether you are gluten sensitive or have Coeliac Disease, you can still enjoy your favourite treats, sandwiches, pizza, cookies, and other delectable dishes! This essential gluten-free cookbook covers breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert! You'll learn how to make: - Gluten-free basics using essential flour blends - Wheat-free breakfasts - Fish and poultry mains - Pork and beef mains - Flour-free sides and soups - Perfect pizzas and bread - Sweet loaves, muffins, and scones - Pies and fruity desserts - Cakes, cookies, and cupcakes Separate meals are a thing of the past and Surprise! It's Gluten-Free recipe book makes sure of it. Each delicious gluten-free recipe has been carefully selected to tickle the taste buds of even the pickiest palate. Now you can bake your cake and eat it too! From extra-crunchy fried chicken and classic lasagne to glazed triple chocolate bundt cake and scrumptious brownies, you'll soon find yourself asking, "How can this be gluten-free?". Removing gluten from your diet doesn't have to mean sacrificing taste and texture - and that's what this ultimate gluten-free cookbook proves. Loaded with secret ingredients, 35 photographed recipes, well-tested techniques, and wheat-free cooking and baking tips, your family will soon feast on traditional recipes with a twist. It's the perfect gift for anyone who wants to maintain a gluten-free lifestyle.

Simply delicious bakes for every day of the year. 'I'm so excited about this beautiful book. Delicious, cozy recipes that are pure comfort on a plate' Fearne Cotton Secondary school teacher and pub landlord's daughter Candice Brown stole the show with her amazing bakes and weekly lipstick change in The Great British Bake Off tent of 2016. This year the Sunday Times columnist will be bringing out her first cookbook - all about home comforts. These are the recipes Candice learned to bake from her nan and mum, recipes close to her heart, that should be served up as a big generous slice - and preferably on a vintage plate if you have one. Candice's recipes are easy to make, no nonsense and hearty. She has a recipe up her sleeve for every occasion - for baking with kids, birthday parties for all ages, Christmas, afternoon tea, quick savoury bakes for weeknights and fancier recipes for weekends.

Sourdough: The Gold Standard of Bread
More and more home bakers are replacing mass-produced breads and commercial yeasts in favor of artisan breads made with wild cultures and natural fermentation. Whether you want to capture your own local yeasts, take advantage of established cultures like San Francisco Sourdough, or simply bake healthier, more natural loaves, you'll find no better guides than renowned sourdough authorities Ed and Jean Wood.
In this updated edition of "Classic Sourdoughs," the Woods reveal their newly discovered secret to crafting the perfect loaf: by introducing a unique culture-proofing step and adjusting the temperature of the proofs, home bakers can control the sourness and leavening like never before. The reward? Fresh, hot sourdough emerging from the oven just the way you like it--every time. Starting with their signature Basic Sourdough loaf, the Woods present recipes featuring rustic grains and modern flavors, including Herb Spelt Bread, Prarie Flax Bread, and Malt Beer Bread, along with new no-knead versions of classics like White French Bread. They round out the collection with recipes for homemade baguettes, bagels, English muffins, and cinnamon rolls, plus a chapter on baking authentic sourdoughs in bread machines.
Steeped in tradition, nuanced in flavor, and wonderfully ritualized in preparation, sourdough is bread the way it was meant to be. So join the sourdough renaissance and bring these time-honored traditions into your own kitchen.

For Natalie Paull, baking is a gift. It's also a powerful elixir of pleasure, connection, generosity and joy. In Beatrix Bakes, Natalie indulges in baking's sweetest moments with more than seventy recipes inspiring bakers of all kinds to mix and match to make recipes their own - whether it's a lemon curd cream crepe cake or pecan maple cinnamon scrolls. Sparkling with Natalie's distinct voice, and packaged with full-colour photography, illustrations and rock-solid tips for a perfect bake, Beatrix Bakes also includes 'Adaptrix' suggestions (offering ways readers might do things differently, including short cuts) and is peppered with infographics to help them follow their baking heart. Try The Cheesecake (That You Will Love The Most) with a crumb base, or a bought biscuit base, or no base, or a sponge base, or even a failed cookie base! And from there, pick a topping from sour cream, to crumb, to fruity bits. The recipes are divided across eight chapters: Doughs, Pastries & Crusts; Tarts, Pies, a Crostata & a Galette; The Cake List; One in the Hand; Yeasted Bakes; Fruit-full; Creams, Custards, Fillings, Glazes and Buttercreams; and Finishing Touches. While Natalie's creations are inspired by classics the world over, they are irreverent too, and in Beatrix Bakes she delights in showing readers that - once they get the foundations right - the truest magic will come from a willingness to play (with the insurance of her many clever ideas and back-up plans in their apron pocket!). Beatrix Bakes will guide anyone who loves the adventure of baking to perfect their skills and break the baking mould.

Home-baked cakes and cookies are one of life's great treats. Whatever the occasion, be it an afternoon break, a birthday or a special dinner party dessert, you'll find just the recipe to inspire you in this mouth-watering collection. Starting with an overview of basic baking techniques, ingredients and equipment, beginners and more experienced bakers alike will find that it's easy to master the art of baking with this one-stop guide for cake and cookie lovers. Discover recipes from around the world: Classic sponges as well as iced, fruit or delicately flavoured cakes Decorated cupcakes, muffins or meringues Tortes, cheesecakes and gateaux galore Quick and easy cookies and biscuits, plus brownies, flapjacks and pastry-based slices Birthday, wedding and anniversary cakes as well as delightful novelty cakes and cookies for children

Say hello to the gluten-free flour of your dreams. Exceptionally high in protein, fiber, and iron, and gluten-free, grain-free, and low-glycemic, chickpea flour is the total package. The Chickpea Flour Cookbook is your go-to resource for using this tremendously versatile and nutritious pantry staple. Chickpea flouralso known as garbanzo bean flour, besan, and gram flouris simply dried chickpeas ground into a fine flour ready to be incorporated into any number of savory and sweet recipes. Used for centuries in Mediterranean, Indian, and Southeast Asian cooking, chickpea flour is no passing fad. It's all-natural and incredibly easy to use, no gums or starches necessary. Nut-free and soy-free to boot, chickpea flour is a high fiber carbohydrate that doesn't spike blood sugar levels. Its numerous health benefits make it ideal for a wide range of special diets. Better yet, chickpea flour is affordablea fraction of the cost of other pricey grain-free flours out there. The Chickpea Flour Cookbook has over 80 delicious, healthy, easy-to-make recipes to power every meal of the day, including: Loaded Southwestern Chickpea Omelet (egg-free), Pumpkin Spice Waffles, Brown Sugar Banana Bread, Chickpea Tortilla Wraps, Carrot-Sesame Crackers, Sweet Chile-Garlic Crisps, Chickpea Pasta, Baked Coconut-Chickpea Onion Rings, Pumpkin-Sage Gnocchi, Smoky Backyard BBQ Burgers, Skillet Pizza, Sweet Potato Falafel, Double Chocolate Cake, Molasses Spice Cookies, Brown-Butter Blondies, and much, much more. With The Chickpea Flour Cookbook, clean eating has never been simpler or easier. Beloved treats get a huge nutritional boost without sacrificing flavor or texture. In addition to being gluten-free, all of the recipes are free of nuts, grains, and soy, and the vast majority of recipes in the collection are either naturally vegan (dairy- and egg-free) or include vegan options, making this cookbook accessible to everyone.

The Cake Parlour: Sweet Tables Bring some serious wow factor to your party cake displays with a sumptuous sweet table design - combining cakes, cookies, cupcakes, cake pops and more to stunning effect! With this gorgeous book, from award-winning wedding cake designer Zoe Clark, you will learn how to design and make your own stunning dessert tables and sweet tables. The book features six gorgeous sweet table themes, with over 40 cake decorating projects, each designed to be colour coordinated and visually stunning. Recreate each theme in full, or pick out individual elements to create a simple baking display. Includes step-by-step cake decorating techniques and delicious cake recipes so that you can get started straight away! Inside The Cake Parlour: Sweet Tables: Sweet Table Designs - six themed sweet table projects for you to make, with tiered cake centrepieces, cupcakes and cookies, cake pops, macaroons, mini cakes, fondant fancies, and loads of other baked treats. Cake Decorating Techniques - all the essential techniques and cake recipes that you need to know to make the sweet table displays, including techniques for piping buttercream frosting, covering with fondant icing and sugarpaste, and stacking tiered cakes.

Richard's first book Dough, was winner of the Guild of Food Writers' Award for Best First Book, the Julia Child Award, the IACP Best Cookbook of the Year Award and a James Beard Foundation Book Award. 'The master of French breadmaking.' Sainsbury's magazine 'Master baker Richard Bertinet reveals how you can become an artisan bread maker at home.' Food & Travel 'This book will be a great help if you want to make your own sourdough, brioche, baguettes, ciabatta or bagels. The recipes are clearly laid out and the pictures are helpful and beautiful at the same time.' Independent Magazine Richard Bertinet's revolutionary and simple approach gives you the confidence to create really exciting recipes at home. He begins by mastering the mighty Sourdough and making your own ferments so that you can make bread anytime. And then he takes a look at speciality breads, using a range of flours and flavours - why not try making Spelt Bread or experiment with Bagels and Pretzels? He follows by exploring the Croissant and all its wonderful variations as well as covering other deliciously tempting sweet breads such as Stollen and Brioche. With stunning step-by-step photography, simple advice and helpful techniques throughout, Crust is a worthy following to a remarkable debut.