Bake from Scratch (Vol 4): Artisan Recipes for the Home Baker

This is a great baking book .The quality is amazing ,the recipes are amazing and the pictures are amazing .

I love baking but honestly, most baking books disappoint me. They’re all either the same recipes you’ve seen 1,000 times, too “dumbed down” in an effort to appeal to the home cook (if not a single recipe calls for pastry or cake flour I find it highly suspect), or way too labor intensive/call for too many obscure ingredients to be practical. The whole Bake from Scratch series is pretty great and is in that goldilocks “just right” spot that many intermediate to advanced, but not professional, home bakers are looking for. This volume is my favorite because almost every single recipe jumps out as something I’d really enjoy making and eating…some standouts are Banana Rum Coffee Cake, Champagne Poached Pear Muffins, Pear Cardamom Buns, Pumpkin Spice Whoopie Pies, and Bourbon Pecan Blondies. Every recipe includes a large, full color photo (which is a MUST for me) and just about every recipe only takes up one page so you don’t have to flip pages with sticky or greasy fingers. Although not quite as kitchen friendly as spiral bound, it’s a nice large, hardcover and will stay open on a chosen page while laying flat on a table or counter, unlike most paperback or smaller size hardcovers.

This cookbook is beyond the normal. It covers a wide variety of baked goods, has glorious pictures, and little snippets of info in the intro for each recipe. My only complaint; it weighs a ton. So many recipes, so little time.

I bought it for just one recipe and is delighted with the other great ones contained within.

Gave this to my daughter of 13 years old. She loves the recipes and the pictures that go with it. Easy to understand and ingredients easily found for the average home baker. Very nice!!!!