Baking with the Cake Boss: 100 of Buddy’s Best Recipes and Decorating Secrets
Buddy Valastro, the star of TLC’s smash hit Cake Boss shares everything a home cook needs to know about baking as he takes readers through the same progressive training he had in his own apprenticeship. Call it the Buddy system, because Baking with the Cake Boss is an education in the art of baking and decorating, from kneading to rolling, fondant to flowers, taught by Buddy Valastro himself, the star of TLC’s smash hit Cake Boss. With more than 100 of his most sought-after recipes, including birthday and holiday cakes and other special theme designs, this book is a master course that culminates in the showstopping cakes for which Carlo’s Bake Shop is famous....
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The learn-to-bake master class in a book. The craft of baking is based on good technique. Learn the fundamentals well, and you can bake perfect cakes, cookies, tarts, breads, and pastries each and every time. That's the premise of Baking, revered cooking teacher James Peterson's master course in baking fundamentals. In more than 350 recipes and auxiliary techniques–most accompanied by illuminating step-by-step photographs–Peterson lays the foundation for lifelong baking success. This book teaches you how to build finished baked goods from their essential components, providing both maximum guidance for less experienced bakers and great creative freedom for more confident bakers. The Cakes chapter, for example, presents basic cake recipes (Moist Sponge Cake, Devil' s...
more infoClassic Sourdoughs, Revised: A Home Baker’s Handbook
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,...
more infoCooking with Convection: Everything You Need to Know to Get the Most from Your Convection Oven
If you own a convection oven, but don’t really know how to use it, this book is for you. Beatrice Ojakangas, an authority on convection cooking and author of more than two dozen previous cookbooks, explains how to use your convection oven to achieve perfect results in dramatically less time than with a conventional oven. You will learn: *How to cook a whole meal in your oven–from meat to side dishes to dessert–all at the same time *How to cook multiple batches of cookies, cakes, and pies on three or even four oven shelves *How to roast and bake in a third less time than in a conventional oven while achieving even better results...
more infoBaking With Sourdough: Recipes and Everything You Need to Know to Start Baking
Get started baking with Sourdough! With this book you will learn why sourdough is a great basis for your baking. You will also get a lot of recipes to get you started! Health benefits of sourdoughRead how baking with sourdough gives you a lot of health benefits you wouldn't dream of. Sourdough bread and pastry is great for people with specific food intolerances, but you don't need to have a specific condition to benefit from it. Everyone should know the facts described in this book, as you will find out, they apply to us all. The history of Sourdough Sourdough has an amazing history. In this book you will get great stories on how...
more infoPizza on the Grill: 100+ Feisty Fire-Roasted Recipes for Pizza & More
Americans love pizza and grilling. Put them together and you have your own version of a wood-oven pizza, straight from your own gas or charcoal grill. Updated to include 10 gluten-free recipes, as well as homemade gluten-free pizza dough, this expanded edition of the best-selling Pizza on the Grill has a total of 60 delicious, creative recipes for grilled pizza, along with nibbles and salads to make an entire meal. Readers will enjoy preparing (and eating!) Kung Pao Cashew Chicken Pizza; Pulled Pork Pizza; Blistered Corn, Asparagus, and Pesto Pizza; Pumpkin Palooza Pizza; and Day-After-Thanksgiving Pizza. Traditional classics include Margherita Pizza and All-American Pepperoni Pizza. Each recipe comes with ingredient substitutions plus a drink...
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