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.
Marigold the cat likes everything just so, but when he sets out to bake a perfect cake one Monday, he is interrupted by one finch, two pigeons, and three loons.
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
It's Froggy's mother's birthday, and Froggy wants to bake her birthday cake all by himself. He gathers the chocolate, the sugar, the eggs, the flour, and pretty soon, Froggy has all the ingredients he needs to make—a big mess! Jonathan London and Frank Remkiewicz have collaborated on the six previous Froggy books, and they've cooked up another winner here, sweetened with generous helpings of Froggy humor and charm.
This book contains hundreds of accessible, teacher-written learning center activities. The GIANT Encyclopedia of Learning Center Activities is the eighth book in Gryphon House's GIANT Encyclopedia series. The learning centers in this book can either be permanent year-long centers or set up and removed according to the season or children's interests and needs. Through play, young children learn to communicate, interact, and expand their cognitive thinking horizons. The GIANT Encyclopedia of Learning Center Activities provides the resources to make play meaningful and educational for young children. This book offers: Over 600 activities and 47 learning centers, including familiar, permanent centers, such as Art or Blocks, and new and exciting centers, such as Farm, Space, Safari, Shoe Store, and Ice Cream Shop. Opportunities in each center for children to work at their own developmental level. Materials lists for each activity, step-by-step instructions, and related books, songs, and poems. Fresh new ideas from teachers who have used these activities in their own classrooms!
A New York Times bestseller: “The ultimate cake pops resource . . . if you love Bakerella’s cute and colorful style, pick this one up. It’s a visual treat.” —Kitchn What’s cuter than a cupcake? A cake pop, of course! Wildly popular blogger Bakerella (aka Angie Dudley) has turned cake pops into an international sensation! Cute little cakes on a stick from decorated balls to more ambitious shapes such as baby chicks, ice cream cones, and even cupcakes these adorable creations are the perfect alternative to cake at any party or get-together. Martha Stewart loved the cupcake pops so much she had Bakerella appear on her show to demonstrate making them. Now Angie makes it easy and fun to recreate these amazing treats right at home with clear step-by-step instructions and photos of more than forty featured projects, as well as clever tips for presentation, decorating, dipping, coloring and melting chocolate, and much more. “Popularized by a blogger known as Bakerella, cake pops have taken over as the new cupcake . . . In the last few years they’ve become an international sensation, and many cities are going cake-pop crazy.” —Monterey Herald “The American queen of cake pops.” —Fine Dining Lovers “The book is absolutely gorgeous. Each project is filled with photos and tips to guide you through the whole process from start to finish. For anyone who loves Martha Stewart type creative baking, this is a must-have book!” —Savory Sweet Life
Sarah Kieffer knows that you don’t have to be a professional baker in order to bake up delicious treats. Though she started out baking professionally in coffee shops and bakeries, preparing baked goods at home for family and friends is what she loves best—and home-baked treats can be part of your everyday, too. In The Vanilla Bean Baking Book, she shares 100 delicious tried-and-true recipes, ranging from everyday favorites like Chocolate Chip Cookies and Blueberry Muffins to re-invented classics, like Pear-Apple Hard Cider Pie and Vanilla Cupcakes with Brown Butter Buttercream. Sarah simplifies the processes behind seemingly complicated recipes, so baking up a beautiful Braided Chocolate Swirl Bread for a cozy Sunday breakfast or a batch of decadent Triple Chocolate Cupcakes for a weeknight celebration can become a part of your everyday baking routine. Filled with charming storytelling, dreamy photos, and the tips and tricks you need to build the ultimate baker’s pantry, The Vanilla Bean Baking Book is filled with recipes for irresistible treats that will delight and inspire.