The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegan Baking

The bible for vegan baking.

Once thought to be tasteless and heavy, vegan baked goods have exploded in popularity with the help of such expert bakers as Donna Diegel, who have created wonderfully light and flavorful breads and desserts. Here, Donna delivers more than 120 amazing recipes including breakfast cakes and muffins, yeast breads and dinner rolls, cakes, pies, cupcakes, cookies, brownies, and more.

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? Detailed discussion about food substitutions

Jane Asher's Complete Book of Cake Decorating Ideas Hb

On a range of themes (anniversaries; adult hobbies such as cars, pets, humour and sport; children's stories; office parties; weddings; christenings; special events; Christmas) Jane Asher gives complete instructions for making basic cakes to suit any particular person or occasion, and a collection of variations showing how her ideas can be adapted. The book includes 78 full-colour, finished-cake photographs, and 30 of them have detailed step-by-step illustrations. There are also guidelines on equipment and techniques, and templates useful for creating the decorative finish.

The Complete Book of Pies: 200 Recipes from Sweet to Savory

Pie-baking made easy.

What could be better than a fresh summer pie brimming with sweet ripe fruit, or a steaming chicken pot pie? Baking a homemade pie from scratch is surprisingly easy with Julie Hasson's guidance, and the results are rewarding.

The Complete Book of Pies is like having your grandmother in the kitchen with you. The entire pie-making process is covered in easy-to-follow detail from start to finish. The book is filled with hundreds of recipes for fruit, cream and savory pies along with dozens of special tips and time-saving shortcuts to help make pie-baking a breeze. There are tips for making dough and rolling it; ideas for decorative pie tops; and quick and easy alternatives to pastry dough.

These luscious recipes are among the many that are sure to please:

• Apple cranberry spice crumb pie, brown sugar apple pie with almond crumb topping
• Blueberry pie, boysenberry pie, bumbleberry crumb pie, peach pie, sour cherry pie
• White chocolate key lime pie, chocolate cream pie, butterscotch cream pie, coconut cream pie
• Chocolate chip pecan pie, rum pecan pie, chocolate truffle tart, chocolate peanut butter mousse pie
• Caramelized onion, thyme and olive tart, quiche lorraine, chicken pot pie with mushrooms and leeks.

Both the novice and experienced baker will benefit from the author's extensive baking expertise. Sixteen pages of color photographs and extensive illustrations provide baking guidance and inspiration. The Complete Book of Pies is a basic reference for any home baker.

"Good Housekeeping" Complete Book of Home Baking

Over 220 thoroughly tested recipes which cover every aspect of home baking, including biscuits, breads, teabreads, cakes, pastries, pies, scones and savoury bakes. Along with microwave hints, this book provides everything you need to know about baking delicious, fresh foods from your own oven.

Farm Journal's Complete Home Baking Book

Farm women across America pride themselves in baking perfect cakes, pies, and breads. Farm Journal has carefully collected, tested, and perfected more than 350 outstanding country recipes, many of them state fair prize winners. In this cookbook that also serves as a short course in baking fundamentals, each chapter includes an extra helpful "what went wrong" section to help the baker correct a soggy souffle or too-crunchy cookies for the next time. Tantalizing yeast breads, quick breads, cakes, cookies, and pies include Danish Kringle, Chocolate Velvet Cake, Date Meringue Bars, and Coconut Cream Pie.

The Complete Book of Baking

Packed with over 350 delicious baking suggestions. Contains many classic bakes as well as more innovative recipes. Simple, fail-safe cooking instructions guide you through all the basic techniques.

Taste of Home's Complete Guide to Baking

Illistrated guide to baking- Beautiful color photographs-

Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads

From the bestselling author of The New Complete Book of Breads comes the thirtieth anniversary edition of this classic baking book, now in trade paperback. In this exhaustive volume, you'll find recipes for every imaginable type of bread, from white and rye to cheese, herb, French, and Italian breads. Croissants, brioches, flat breads, and crackers are covered in depth as well. Home bakers will find an extraordinary range of variety, nearly enough to supply a new bread a day for a year. There are wheat breads -- Honey-Lemon, Walnut, Buttermilk; sourdough breads; corn breads; breads flavored with herbs or spices or enriched with cheese or fruits and nuts; and little breads -- Kaiser Rolls, Grandmother's Southern Biscuits, English Muffins, and Popovers, to name a few. For the baker who observes the holidays with a fresh loaf there are Challah and Italian Panettone.

Clayton also covers topics like starters and storing and freezing breads, and devotes an entire chapter to "What Went Wrong -- and How to Make It Right." Perfect for all levels of bakers, this book walks the novice through the steps and encourages the advanced baker to try new variations on recipes.

Devoted fans of Bernard Clayton will be thrilled with this easy-to-use paperback edition and delighted to see old favorites and try new ones. This is the definitive edition of the classic baking book that every good cook should own.

The Complete Baking Cookbook: 350 Recipes from Cookies and Cakes to Muffins and Pies

The definitive book on baking for home cooks.

Nothing says comfort food like freshly baked cookies, a cake, muffins or homemade bread cooling in the kitchen. Creating those mouthwatering baked treats to share with family and friends is one of life's great pleasures.

The Complete Baking Cookbook provides the inspiration to explore the wonderful world of baking. And of course it includes the tested recipes to make it easy and tasty. Written by baker and pastry chef extraordinare George Geary, this collection of 350 easy-to-follow recipes offers a tantalizing variety of goodies from pies, tarts, cobblers and crisps, to cookies, cheesecakes and holiday pastries.

Here's just a small sampling:

• Blue ribbon double chocolate cookies; gingersnaps; maple sugar cookies
• Honey apple spice muffins; orange macadamia rolls; jumbo cinnamon rolls
• Sweet potato pie; apple cherry cobbler; Passover honey cheesecake
• Holiday English trifle; Christmas cherry cake; spring Easter Lemon torte.

What really sets this baking book apart from others is that there is a special section with comprehensive material for each category of baked good. For example, the cookies chapter includes instructions and line drawings on effective techniques (scooping, using a pastry bag), troubleshooting and tips, choosing the right pan, and comparison charts.

With hundreds of recipes and an abundance of luscious photographs, this book will be cherished by home bakers everywhere.

The Complete Book of Home Baking

Better Homes and Gardens Complete Book of Baking

A selection of 375 recipes helps bakers recreate childhood memories--including yeast breads, cakes, fruit-packed pies, creamy puddings, and cookies--and offers information on ingredient choice, garnishing, measuring, temperatures, substitutions, equipment, and bakeware. 50,000 first printing.