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Top Baking Cookbooks, 2009

Written by Team Project Foodie

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Kicking off our top cookbook selections for 2009 is our Top Baking Cookbooks choices. Whether you are a novice looking for a helping hand or a veteran baker looking for inspiration, this year's Top Baking Cookbooks will give you just what you want…

Rose's Heavenly Cakes by Rose Levy Beranbaum (Wiley, 2009) - Review | Recipes

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From the author of the Cake Bible, Rose'e Heavenly Cakes is far more than a sequel. Rose not only takes cake baking to the next level, but she will hook any baker within minutes. While you'll find plenty of fancy smancy cakes, you'll also find loads of more casual, yet equally tempting, everyday cakes. In fact, several don't have a frosting but sit naked waiting to be devoured in all their bareness. If you want to take your cake baking up a level Rose can certainly do it, but be warned this book, and cake baking, is addictive! - picked by Foodie Pam

Martha Stewart's Cupcakes from the Editors of Martha Stewart Living (Clarkson Potter, 2009) - Review | Recipes

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My shelves are overflowing with cupcake cookbooks, but if I were forced to pare down the inventory to a single volume, this would be it. The book contains plenty of good, basic cake recipes with a mix-and-match assortment of just about every frosting you'll ever need. Best of all, there are many seasonal and other original ideas for decorating and presentation. A cupcake-lover's nirvana. - picked by Peggy Fallon

My Bread by Jim Lahey (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009) - Review | Recipes

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New York Bakery owner Jim Lahey's No-Knead bread method is the next best thing since well, you know. And I for one am so glad that I found it. Perfect for beginning bread makers and veterans alike, the No-Knead process allows you to bake bread with confidence. Once you start baking your own bread its hard to stop, which is why My Bread is one of my favorite baking books of 2009. - picked by Heather Jones

Cake Keeper Cakes by Lauren Chattam (Taunton Press, 2009) - Review | Recipes

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I know I've mentioned it before, but I'll say it again, I'm no baker. However with this book I am getting better thanks to Lauren Chattam's great, easy to follow recipes that makes baking cakes a real "piece of cake". These are the kind of cakes that remind me of my youth and the kind of cakes that I now make for my own girls any day of the week, any day can be a cake day. - picked by Heather Jones

Rustic Fruit Desserts by Cory Schreiber and Julie Richardson (Tenspeed Press, 2009) - Review | Recipes

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Baking with fruit makes baking with seasonal ingredients easy and this little gem is the perfect way to do both. Not only are the photos enticing but the baked Pandowdies, Grunts and Buckles are amazing. Who knew fruit could be so good? - picked by Foodie Pam

The Sweeter Side of Amy's Bread by Amy Scherber and Toy Kim Dupree (Wiley, 2008) - Review |Recipes

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This is a well-thought compendium of homestyle sweets (and even a few savories) made famous by this New York baker. It also contains enough technical info (including measurements in grams and ounces, as well as in traditional cup-measures) to satisfy the curious mind of even the most serious baker. Nothing trendy or flashy--just a good, reliable book that deserves to get splattered with butter and vanilla. - picked by Peggy Fallon

Disclosure: Review copies of books discussed in this post may have been provided to Project Foodie by publicists and/or publishers.

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