“At the Little Bitty Bakery, the pastry chef was beat—from her powdered sugar nose, to her flour dusted feet." When a pastry chef works straight through her birthday with no time to celebrate, some industrious mice decide to cook her up a scrumptious birthday surprise. It's a happy day, indeed, for the baker when she discovers their delicious secret! This perfect read aloud is enhanced by a glittered jacket, delicious recipes, and Caldecott Honoree Betsy Lewin's timeless illustrations that bring a lovable cast of characters to life.
Jeromie "Kake King" Jones shares his journey of pain, passion, and purpose in From Home to Baker: How I Went From Home Bakery to Bakery Ownership. In his author debut, From Home to Baker gives readers a glimpse into his life laced with the realness, candid conversation, humor that has made Jeromie a sought-after baker, speaker, mentor, and influencer. Throughout these pages, readers will get a healthy dose of inspiration mixed with straightforward and practical tips that will give readers a behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to start and run a brick-and-mortar bakery. He reveals how one of his lowest moments led to a remarkable career in baking, all while sharing the highs and lows that come with business ownership. A 2x Food Network Competitor, Mississippi native Jeromie Jones has lived an extraordinary life. Reflecting on what it took to go from a local baker making treats on weekends to a full-time business owner, Jones lays out the steps he took to make his dream a reality. Inspiring thousands of bakers and entrepreneurs worldwide, From Home to Bakery is a labor of love that is sure to inspire, inform, and excite.
The Tartine Way — Not all bread is created equal The Bread Book "...the most beautiful bread book yet published..." -- The New York Times, December 7, 2010 Tartine — A bread bible for the home or professional bread-maker, this is the book! It comes from Chad Robertson, a man many consider to be the best bread baker in the United States, and co-owner of San Francisco’s Tartine Bakery. At 5 P.M., Chad Robertson’s rugged, magnificent Tartine loaves are drawn from the oven. The bread at San Francisco's legendary Tartine Bakery sells out within an hour almost every day. Only a handful of bakers have learned the techniques Chad Robertson has developed: To Chad Robertson, bread is the foundation of a meal, the center of daily life, and each loaf tells the story of the baker who shaped it. Chad Robertson developed his unique bread over two decades of apprenticeship with the finest artisan bakers in France and the United States, as well as experimentation in his own ovens. Readers will be astonished at how elemental it is. Bread making the Tartine Way: Now it's your turn to make this bread with your own hands. Clear instructions and hundreds of step-by-step photos put you by Chad's side as he shows you how to make exceptional and elemental bread using just flour, water, and salt. If you liked Tartine All Day by Elisabeth Prueitt and Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish, you'll love Tartine Bread!
In the first novel of the Union Street Bakery series, Daisy McCrae learns how easily life can turn on a dime… Suddenly without a job or a boyfriend, Daisy now lives in the attic above her family’s store, the Union Street Bakery, while she learns the business. It doesn’t help that, as the only adopted daughter, her relationship with her sisters has never been easy. When an elderly customer dies, Daisy is surprised to inherit a journal from the 1850s, written by a slave girl named Susie. As she reads, Daisy learns more about her family—and her own heritage—than she ever dreamed. Haunted by dreams of the young Susie, who beckons Daisy to “find her,” she is compelled to explore the past more deeply. What she finds are the answers she has longed for her entire life.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Finch Bakery! Lauren and Rachel Finch, founders of Finch Bakery, share their best-kept secrets to decorating all-out celebration cakes and let you in on their top baking techniques to create indulgent brownies and cupcakes, decadent macarons, stuffed cookies of every kind, and your very own versions of their indulgent signature cake jars. Packed with crowd-pleasing classics and desserts to impress, this bestselling baking book has the treat to satisfy every sweet tooth, every time: - Over 80 Instagram-ready baking recipes - 15 step-by-step baking technique tutorials for beginners - Mix-and-match your favorite flavor combinations for sponges, fillings, buttercream, and toppings to build your own creations This gorgeous baking book is an unashamed celebration of sugar! Discover the hidden secrets to show-stopping bakes from tempering chocolate and leveling cakes, to crumb coating, piping, and scraping techniques. You'll learn the basics of cake decorating and baking before exploring indulgent flavor combinations. Recipes are designed to be standalone, but some also work in a build-a-block way so you can make your own creation by swapping the sponge, filling, sauce, or topping to satisfy your sweet tooth. With inventive creations and essential techniques, this is a whole new world of cake. A Sunday Times Bestseller The Finch Bakery is your guide to creating mouth-watering homemade treats that are a success every time! This baking book includes a wide range of delightful treats that you can make at home. Explore delicious cupcakes, scones, cookies, cake balls, cake jars, traybakes, no-bake cakes, and celebration cakes. Get creative with classic recipes like lemon drizzle, decadent cookie cups, and Nutella everything - there is something for everyone! A showstopper in the kitchen, and on your coffee table, The Finch Bakery book is the ultimate baking gift for teenagers and adults alike. Get ready to show off your best baking achievements with the help of the Finch Bakers.
Maury Rubin, the country's most innovative pastry chef, leads readers into their kitchens with enthusiasm and teaches recipes of surprising ease. From the fruit tarts of spring and summer through the chocolate, custard, and cream tarts of fall and winter, the hardest part is deciding where to begin.
#1 New York Times Bestseller Winner, IACP Cookbook Award for Food Photography & Styling (2013) Baked goods that are marvels of ingenuity and simplicity from the famed Bouchon Bakery The tastes of childhood have always been a touchstone for Thomas Keller, and in this dazzling amalgam of American and French baked goods, you'll find recipes for the beloved TKOs and Oh Ohs (Keller's takes on Oreos and Hostess's Ho Hos) and all the French classics he fell in love with as a young chef apprenticing in Paris: the baguettes, the macarons, the mille-feuilles, the tartes aux fruits. Co-author Sebastien Rouxel, executive pastry chef for the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, has spent years refining techniques through trial and error, and every page offers a new lesson: a trick that assures uniformity, a subtlety that makes for a professional finish, a flash of brilliance that heightens flavor and enhances texture. The deft twists, perfectly written recipes, and dazzling photographs make perfection inevitable.
For the first time, Poil0/00ne, CEO of the Poil0/00ne bakery, provides detailed instructions so bakers can reproduce its unique "hug-sized" sourdough loaves at home, as well as the bakery's other much-loved breads and pastries. Beyond bread, Poil0/00ne includes recipes for such pastries as tarts and butter cookies. cookies.
Bake like an Italian with this latest Silver Spoon treasure - a culinary inspiration and go-to kitchen companion The Silver Spoon is known throughout the world as the authoritative voice on Italian cuisine and the leading Italian culinary resource. The Italian Bakery is the first volume in the Silver Spoon library to focus on dolci - the Italian term for all sweet treats. Dishes found in bakeries throughout Italy's diverse regions come to life in 140 accessible classic and contemporary patisserie recipes, including a library of 50 core recipes for basic baking building blocks, each illustrated with step-by-step photography, geared toward novices and experienced bakers alike. Filled with cakes, pastries, pies, cookies, sweets and chocolates, and frozen puddings, the collection showcases a wide range of delectable desserts suitable for everyday indulgences and special-occasion celebrations - the Italian way.
