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.

The ultimate guide to classic bakes and modern favourites that doesn't just tell you what to do - it shows you. What's the difference between beating and folding? What should "soft peaks" look like? How do you line a pastry crust? When it comes to baking, knowing what an instruction means can be the difference between a showstopper and a soggy bottom. That's where Complete Baking comes in. Each of the 80 classic recipes in this essential collection is fully illustrated, with photographs of every stage of the baking process. See what other baking books only tell you: how to knead dough, rub together butter and flour, and create a pastry lattice to top a pie or tart. Then try your hand at more than 250 variations on those classics, or use them as inspiration to build on what you've learned and experiment with your own baking creations. If you're spoilt for choice, at-a-glance recipe choosers help you find the right recipe for any occasion, while tips on freezing help you to prepare your bakes ahead of time. With sweet and savoury recipes that everyone will enjoy, it's time to roll up your sleeves, flour your work surface, and whip up something superb with Complete Baking.

This Essential Guide is the all inclusive one stop shop to gluten and allergen free baking. Six chapters each dedicated to a specific flour including 50+ diverse recipes that are packed with the information you need for successful gluten free baking. From delicious Stove Top English Muffins, Cheesy Skillet biscuits, and Chocolate Babka Bread to Fig Newtons, Graham Crackers and Funnel Cake. Learn how to make these unique and hard to find allergen free recipes. Brittany and Iris will help you: Learn how to successfully bake with each flour Learn how to best substitute each flour Understand the basics of baking without eggs, corn, soy, dairy Learn the ins and outs of all the unrefined sugars and how to exchange them. Also Included are baking tips from some of today s leading gluten free experts: Elana Amsterdam Beth Hillson Ricki Hellar Amy Green Linsey Herman Kelly Brozyna Katie Higgins This complete guide will provide you with all the information and useful tips you need to prepare wonderful baked goods you never thought possible and will gift you with the knowledge to create your own.

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.

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.

Now you can enjoy the soul-warming aromas and beguiling flavors of homemade sourdough with much less fuss and with a whole lot less time in the kitchen. In Sourdough Breads from the Bread Machine, best-selling bread-machine author Michelle Anderson turns her expert hand to sourdough breads and shows that these supposedly difficult breads really can be very easy to make, if you have a bread machine in your kitchen arsenal. She does so by way of delivering 100 delectable and foolproof recipes, from basic loaves for the weekday whirl to rustic artisan breads like ciabatta, focaccia, brioche, and baguettes, along with nut breads, cheese breads, herb breads, and sweet dessert breads like babka and stollen. The recipes include: Light Rye Sourdough Dates and Maple Bread San Francisco Sourdough Blue Cheese-Pecan Sourdough Multigrain Sourdough Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls You will learn how to acquire, work with, and store a good sourdough starter. You will find family-recipes for lunchbox sandwiches and elegant breads to serve when you have company. You will find healthy breads made with whole grains and with nutritious filings like nuts, yogurt, veggies, and fruit. Above all, you will find breads that are a delight to eat. And you probably know that working with sourdough always yields lots of extra dough, called "discard." The book has a special chapter that reveals all the glorious things you can make with sourdough discard, from Sourdough Brownies and Sourdough Blueberry Muffins to Sourdough Pancakes, Sourdough Lemon Scones, and even Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies. This is a book that makes sourdough easier than you ever thought-and better tasting than ever.

As featured in Epicurious, Bake Magazine, and Glamour Bake like an Italian with this latest Silver Spoon treasure - a culinary inspiration and go-to kitchen companion The Silver Spoon is known throughout the world as the authoritative voice on Italian cuisine and the leading Italian culinary resource. The Italian Bakery is the first volume in the Silver Spoon library to focus on dolci - the Italian term for all sweet treats. Dishes found in bakeries throughout Italy's diverse regions come to life in 140 accessible classic and contemporary patisserie recipes, including a library of 50 core recipes for basic baking building blocks, each illustrated with step-by-step photography, geared toward novices and experienced bakers alike. Filled with cakes, pastries, pies, cookies, sweets and chocolates, and frozen puddings, the collection showcases a wide range of delectable desserts suitable for everyday indulgences and special-occasion celebrations - the Italian way.

This richly illustrated how-to book is a comprehensive reference about various techniques for decorating cookies, including buttercream icing, rolled fondant, run sugar, painting, chocolate icing, and egg wash glaze. The clear organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 400 full-color photos. Easy projects provide fun opportunities for trying the techniques, and a gallery of beautifully decorated cookies offers examples and inspiration to pursue the hobby yourself