Baking Books hit parade...what are your favorites?

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traca

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I was chatting with my friend who writes the blog Culinary Concoctions by Peabody today and the conversation turned to her favorite books. Since she's major baker, I was dying to hear what she said. Here's the line up:

Baked: New Frontiers in Baking

Anything by Sherry Yard...especially her first one

Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More: 200 Anytime Treats and Special Sweets for Morning to Midnight

Tartine

Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey: Desserts for the Serious Sweet Tooth

ANY cookbook by Marcel Desaulniers

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To that list, I added a few of my own:

Dolce Italiano (she and I both agree, this is a smack-down favorite)

Sweets: Soul Food Desserts & Memories

Claudia Fleming's The Last Course

David Leibovitz's The Perfect Scoop

Chez Panisse Desserts

Cindy Mushet's Art & Soul of Baking

 
Anything by Alice Medrich: Bittersweet, Cocolat, Cookies and Brownies, Chocolate & rt of lowfat des

 
Shaun, I've tried a couple recipes from Dolce Italiano and loved them both:

try the cranberry tart and the pumpkin custard. In my opion, the custard is kind of ugly so next time I make it, I'll leave it in the ramekin. The compote, I can take it or leave it, but I'm not a big fan of raisins.

 
"Kaffeehaus"-Rick Rodgers, "Festive Baking"-Sarah Iaia...

"The Professional Pastry Chef"-Bo Friburg
"Professional Baking" -Gail Sokol
"My Favorite Cookies from the Old Country"-Olli Leeb
"Christmas Baking"-Christian Teubner
"Grossmutters Weihnachtliche Backstube" (Grandma's Christmas Bakery)-Garant
"Wiener Süßspeisen" (Viennese Desserts)-Karl Schuhmacher

 
Oh No..I own every book on your list Traca! New Year's Resolution...NO MORE COOKBOOKS in 2009!!

The Modern Baker by Nick Malgeri is wonderful. (The lime cookies and corn tart are my favorites so far)
Baked: The New Frontier has an awesome banana ice cream that you use frozen bananas..(hardly any cream. You make a cinnamon syrup first. Different but really good.) The Brownies are really good too and freeze nicely.
Shirley Corrhier's new book Bakewise is a keeper.
Baking From my Kitchen to Yours by Dorie Greenspan is terrific.
A Passion for Baking by Marcy Goldman is great.
Pastry Queen by Rebecca Rather and her Pastry Queen Christmas have WONDERFUL recipes.
The Sweet Life by Kate Zuckerman is nice for more challenging desserts.
The Martha Stewart Baking Handbook is really good.
(Very disappointed by the cookie book, inconsistent results from my kitchen)
My all time favorite today has to be Tartine.
Everything from Tartine has been superb. Love the photos, layout, weight measurements, etc.
Love to bake.
Love to eat baked goods.
Going to Maui for the holidays. Dreaming of Hula Pie....now that's a sweet dream!

 
Haven't tried that one yet! Guess I'll have to give it a try over the holidays

when I have plenty of people around to eat it!

Off the top of my head I know I have made the pumpkin/sweet potato/coconut pie several times, the apple cake with a bourbon sauce several times, a stout cake and a sticky gooey gingerbread--all were absolutely wonderful (I know there are more but I can't remember them without the book in front of me.)

 
CactusSue...could you post the recipes for the lime cookies & banana ice cream?

Thanks for the review! I totally need to get that Tartine book.

My experience with the Dorrie Greenspan book has been lackluster (to the point that I wish I never bought it.) I know everyone raves about it but from what I can see is, her most successful recipes were the ones from her days with Pierre Hermes.

I have a Passion for Baking but haven't made anything from that. Any suggestions?

 
I have Kaffeehaus. Looks like I need to spend some quality time with it. Any favorite

recipes to recommend starting with?

 
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