Many people will describe baking as a science, and point out that they like the freedom of cooking by feel a lot more than the exactitude of baking. All kinds of cooking rely heavily on science, however, and whether you are aware of it or not, scientific principles help govern what ends up on …
Home Made Winter has one of the most appealing and unique cover photos of any cookbook that I’ve seen recently. It’s a picture of Cardamom Cake with Whole Pears and White Chocolate, one of the recipes included in the book, that has whole Bosc pears baked right inside of a loaf cake …
Perfect Pies
Pies are classic, homestyle desserts, whether you’re making one with an apple, cream or nut-based filling. Perfect Pies is a book that showcases nearly eighty great pie recipes from Michele Stuart, an award winning pie baker and the owner of the popular shop Michele’s Pies in Norwalk and Westport, Connecticut. …
Homemade cookies just about always taste better than the cookies you can buy at the store, but there are many times when store-bought cookies look a lot better because a lot more time has been put into decorating them to give them a fun or seasonal look. Decorating cookies is both more fun and …
The holiday season is the biggest time of the year for baking. Even people who don’t bake so much as a chocolate chip cookie the rest of the year will try their hand at a batch of gingerbread cookies or a homemade pie sometime around Thanksgiving or Christmas. The baking season can be quite …
Brown Betty Dessert Boutique is a bakery in Philadelphia that has been baking up classic American desserts for loyal fans since it first opened, back in 2004. The bakery is a family-run affair and started with a bunch of much-loved family recipes that Grandma Betty – the namesake of the bakery – made for …
