Drool-worthy baked goods for any meal and occasion throughout the year—from fluffy cinnamon rolls to vegetable potpies to gingerbread cookies. Be a hero at home or the next group gathering when you serve one of the over 120 delicious recipes in Williams Sonoma Baking Favorites, the essential collection of go-to recipes for homemade treats. From holiday classics like Bûche de Noël and Popovers, to kid-friendly treats such as Cinnamon Monkey Bread and Snickerdoodles, to contemporary desserts including Bourbon Pumpkin Cheesecake and Champagne and Raspberry Mini Layer Cakes, the easy-to-follow recipes, expert tips, and beautiful photography will inspire home cooks to expand their baking repertoire and create delicious goodies for any occasion throughout the year.
A collection of decadent, crave-worthy baked goods featuring beloved classics and new flavor pairings. Includes favorite recipes from top bakeries and bloggers from across the country. In this book you’ll discover just how fun it is to transform the simplest ingredients—flour, sugar, eggs, butter—into irresistible baked foods. With over 100 recipes, starring family favorites and tempting creations from seasoned bakers and popular baking bloggers, this enticing book will become your go-to source for the baked treats you crave. Whether you are new to baking or a pro, or lean toward sweet or savory, there’s something inside for everyone. Sample recipes include: -Bite-size bacon and cheese scones -Lemon-blueberry drizzle bread -Whoopie pies -Cherry pot pies -Savory goat cheese soufflés
The award-winning Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library, treasured cookbook series comprising forty-three single-subject titles, provides the material for seven new collector`s editions. Each title in the new format offers comprehensive coverage of a method or style of cooking, or a menu part, compiling favorite recipes into a single, beautiful book. Gorgeous full-color images of every recipe as a finished dish anchor the pages, while step-by-step photographed techniques illuminate more challenging tasks. A detailed, illustrated glossary, a trademark of the Kitchen Library series, completes every book. Written by international cooking authorities, these timeless recipe collections provide everything the home cook needs to prepare delicious, inspiring meals for friends and family.
Mexico's rich and diverse culinary traditions include countless complex and vibrant dishes. In these pages, you will find recipes that capture the best of the cuisine, from mole poblano, a long-simmered blend of chiles, seeds, and spices, to bright-flavored ceviche dressed with fresh citrus juice. A chapter on desserts also tempts, whether you crave chocolate cake with chile-infused whipped cream or coffee and KahlÚa flan. Williams-Sonoma Collection Mexican offers more than 40 recipes, including well-loved classics and many other timeless dishes. For a casual dinner, fill warm corn tortillas with tender morsels of carnitas or chunks of fresh fish lightly fried to a crisp golden brown. Or, plan a summer supper of watercress salad tossed with orange, jicama, and avocado; creamy corn and poblano chile soup; and delicate sea bass topped with salsa verde. Versatile and delicious, Mexican food is always irresistible. Full-color photographs of each dish help you decide which one to prepare, and each recipe is accompanied by a photographic side note that highlights a key ingredient or technique, making Mexican more than just a superb collection of recipes. Including all the basics and an extensive glossary, this essential volume will help you create and enjoy many delicious Mexican meals.
Nothing evokes the comforts of home better than freshly baked treats straight from the oven. But too many home cooks believe they don't have the time to bake except for the occasional special dessert. If you are one of them, this comprehensive baking collection, with nearly 400 recipes for everything from homespun favorites and bake-shop sweets to popular restaurant-style desserts, is guaranteed to change your mind. In this inspired book, you will find recipes that both fit into your busy schedule and suit nearly every occasion, from quick dessert for weeknight suppers to fancy cakes for holiday tables. Whether you are dreaming of buttery shortbread for an afternoon snack, a luscious berry pie for a midsummer get-together, a buche de Noel for a Christmas Day buffet, or a batch of rolls for Sunday supper, you will discover how to make it in these pages. The recipes are organized into eight comprehensive chapters: Cookies and Bars; Muffins and Quick Breads; Coffee Cakes, Scones, and Biscuits; Cakes and Tortes; Pies and Tarts; Yeasted Breads; Fruit Desserts; and Custards and Egg Dishes. Each chapter provides an array of flavor options to match the seasons and to accommodate a variety of tastes. Every recipe includes a photograph of the finished dish, so you can see how it will look, as well as photographs illustrating key baking task, ingredients, and/or equipment. Classics enjoyed by adults and kids alike are here, such as lemon bars, chocolate-studded cookies, blueberry muffins with brown-sugar topping, buttermilk biscuits, birthday cake with fudge frosting, pumpkin pie, and country-style cinnamon rolls. Detailed directions for baking chocolate cupcakes, bagels, and madeleines make these typical bakery specialties easy to prepare at home. A large selection of recipes for special occasions, such as almond-flecked chocolate cake with caramel sauce, pear torte with fresh ginger, and cherry cheesecake with a biscotti crust, provides plenty of ideas for holiday and dinner-party tables. Rounding out the book are dozens of recipes for savory baked items, from Roquefort-laced popovers and goat cheese muffins to olive bread and mushroom quiche. An extensive reference section at the end of the book includes basic recipes, such as pie and tart doughs, dessert sauces and glazes, and cake frostings and fillings. Also included is a tips-and-techniques primer, with photographed step-by-step instructions on everything from rolling out pie dough, making decorative crusts, and frosting a cake to kneading bread dough in a stand mixer. Cooking and ingredient charts and a comprehensive glossary complete the section. With The Williams-Sonoma Baking Book on your kitchen shelf, you will find yourself baking more often, with results that are always both delicious and rewarding.
Dazzling and delectable cookies for every occasion and taste—from Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies to Homemade Oreos and Matcha Shortbread Cookies. This comprehensive collection of over three dozen cookie recipes provides all the much-loved classics, along with tips and variations on how to make them unique. The recipes are simple enough to be understood by beginning bakers and share a timeless quality that will make them cherished by cooks of all levels. The recipes are the type home cooks will return to again and again. Whether you’re an avid baker or a novice, the experts at the Williams-Sonoma Test Kitchen have you covered. Inside this beautifully photographed volume, you’ll find recipes for all types of cookies, including drop cookies, holiday cookies, sandwich cookies, and bar cookies. Step-by-step photos and instructions illustrate how to roll out dough, cut cookie shapes, and decorate with panache. Drop Cookies: Chocolate Chip; Peanut Butter; Oatmeal Raisin; Cowboy; Coconut, Butterscotch, and Macadamia; Chocolate Crinkle. Holiday Cookies/Gift Giving Cookies: Sugar; Ginger-Molasses; Gingerbread People; Spritz; Snickerdoodle; Candy Cane; Peppermint Bark; Thumbprints; Meringues; Florentines; Almond Crescent. Sandwich Cookies: Chocolate Pretzel-Peanut Butter; Lemon Cream; Homemade Oreos Bars: Blondie; Toffee Triangles; Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Brownie Bars; 7-Layer Bar; S’mores Brownies; Orange Creamsicle.
Sharing your home as newlyweds and hosting friends and families are some of the great joys of married life. Newlywed Entertaining provides couples with all the recipes and ideas they need to make each gathering a fun and memorable one. With more than 180 recipes and a wealth of savvy tips, this indispensable volume offers a fresh, inspired approach to hosting an array of get-togethers – from alfresco barbecues and casual suppers to festive cocktail parties and holiday dinners. Inspired recipes and practical advice, including menus, food and beverage pairings, decor and presentation, ensure couples will be hosting friends and family with warmth and style for many years to come. Introduction features Strategies for Stress-Free Hosts, Wine & Beer for Parties, Casual & Outdoor Parties and Formal Parties to help you get your party started. Newlywed Entertaining includes192 easy-to-follow recipes, with full-color photographs and step-by-step instructions. Recipes are divided by Daytime Dishes, Alfresco, Dinner Parties, Holiday Celebrations and Cocktail Parties. Recipe highlights include Fresh Canapés, Tiny Cheese Popovers, Guacamole, Oyster Mignonette, Chili con Carne, Cumin-Crusted Halibut with Grilled Tomatillo Salsa, Summer Ceviche with Avocado, Warm Kale Salad with Crispy Bacon & Egg, Fish Tacos, Cider-Brined Spice-Rubbed Turkey, Tandoori-Style Chicken Kebabs, Beef Tenderloin with Wild Mushrooms, Caramel- Nut Tart, Fruit Desserts Four Ways, Savory Bread Pudding with Aged Gouda, Pitcher Martinis, Cherry Rum Punch, Artisanal Cocktails and much more!
If there is only one book to include in a couple's kitchen library the first few years after their wedding, the Newlywed Cookbook is it. Designed for both novice and expert cooks alike, it includes inspiring ideas for everything from weeknight suppers to Saturday dinner parties with friends and cozy breakfast in bed. With nearly 200 contemporary, easy-to-follow, seasonal recipes, this essential volume will help make every moment shared in the kitchen special. When most people tie the knot, they probably already have some sense of their way around a kitchen. What makes the newlywed kitchen unique is the way you experience it together and what it says about you as a couple. The Newlywed Cookbook aims to help today’s couples inhabit their kitchen. The recipes are infused with global flavors, seasonal ingredients, some retro nostalgia, and lots of flexibility—most can be customized to suit your particular tastes. Introduction includes recommendations for cooking for two, cooking for a crowd, setting the table and setting up the kitchen, as well as sections about wine and beer. Recipes are divided by Breakfast & Brunch, Starters & Snacks, Soups & Salads, Pasta, Pizza & Risotto, Main Courses, Side Dishes and Desserts, along with Kitchen Essentials, Essential Tools and Basic Recipes. Each recipe is accompanied by step by step instructions and full-color photographs to help guide you through the process. Recipe highlights include Glazed Doughnuts, Raised Waffles with Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote, California Breakfast Bowls, Tomato & Feta Tart, Crab Cakes with Lemon Aioli, Pork Ramen with Bean Sprouts, Chicken Tortilla & Lime Soup, Grain Salads, Pizza Four Ways, Ravioli with Bitter Greens & Toasted Walnut Butter, White Lasagna with Mushrooms & Prosciutto, Lemongrass Shrimp Skewers, Korean Short Ribs, Bacon Wrapped Filet Mignons, Cheese Soufflé, Caramelized Brussels Sprouts, Scalloped Potatoes with Leeks & Gruyère, Individual Tiramisus with Espresso & Rum, Salted Caramel Apple Pie, Fresh Lemon Mousse, Coffee Crunch Ice Cream, Peanut Butter and Sea Salt Cookies, and many more! Nominated for a 2018 IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) Cookbook Award!
Expanding on the success of the Williams-Sonoma Essentials series, Essentials of Italian is the series' first foray into the realm of international cuisine. The book reveals the secrets that regional Italian cooks have known for ages for preparing simple, flavorful meals. The book opens with a thorough discussion of the culinary traditions for which Italy is famous, with information on ingredients and dishes that define each region. Beautifully photographed recipes rely on only the best ingredients. Features: Over 130 delicious classic Italian recipes; full-color photography Suggestions for alternative ingredients, recipe variations, and accompaniments Comprehensive glossary of ingredients and culinary terminology
Sugar snap peas in March, juicy melons in July, autumn apples, and robust winter greens. Every season boasts its own bounty of fresh, delectable fruits and vegetables. And as every good cook knows, seasonal ingredients form the basis of the most memorable meals. The Complete Seasons Cookbook is a collection of more than 200 recipes that celebrate the finest fare of each season. Includes guidelines for selecting the best ingredients and tips for cooking.
