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Paco Torreblanca's famous pastry book is now available in English from C.H.I.P.S.
The outstanding success of this book in Spanish has prompted the publication of this new edition which is simultaneously in English and Spanish, both languages in the same book.
This oversized, beautiful hardcover book is illustrated with full color, high quality photos throughout. There are photographs of the finished pieces, plus many step-by-step techniques photos. Ingredients are given in metric units. A second book which is softcover, accompanies the main book. This is a working book which can be used in the kitchen and which also contains all of the recipes along with construction diagrams.
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Delightful from beginning to end.......2006-07-13
As a parent, this may very well be my favorite bedtime story. Don't judge the book based on the TV show-- it is much better! Max and Ruby are making birthday cakes for Grandma. Max is making an earthworm cake but Ruby wants to make an angel surprise cake with rasbery fluff frosting. Despite Ruby's increasingly restrictive instructions, Max keeps knocking her ingredients off the table, and Ruby keeps sending him to the store with a shopping list for replacements. Max wants red hot marshmellow squirters to top off his cake, and his attempts to communicate this to the grocer make up the heart of the story.
The illustrations are delightful and are cleverly incorporated as part of the story. My 3 year old loves this book, and believe it or not he gets tired of it before I do!
Bunny Cakes.......2005-07-24
This is an excellent picture book for young children. The story line is simple and easy for kids to connect with. Many children have siblings and can relate to Max and Ruby. The illustrations are heart warming and draw the reader in. Rosemary Wells repitition of events within the plot make her an excellent storyteller. Bunny Cakes is an endearing story.
Favorite Max and Ruby.......2004-10-09
My children are Max and Ruby(practically) and this is our favorite. A friend's daughter even demanded a Max cake for her birthday complete with gummy worms. This is a favorite of my 3 &5 year old.
another good Max and Ruby Book.......2003-09-04
I think this is one of the better Max and Ruby books, along with Bunny Money and Bunny Party and Max Cleans Up.
Max and Ruby.......2003-07-30
This is a nice little story that is popular with my three children ages 3,4,6. Any child who is a fan of Max and Ruby will like this story...........................
Book Description
"There's something magical about the process of makinga cake from scratch, a process that transforms a few simple ingredients—butter, sugar, flour, and eggs—into culinary artistry."
—Tish Boyle
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Plenty to Celebrate.......2007-10-10
As author Tish Boyle put it, "Cakes are the edible symbol of life's celebrations." Cakes are - or should be - celebrations on their own, however, and this volume gives many reasons to rejoice.
Boyle is a professional. She serves as editor-in-chief for both "Chocolatier" and "Pastry & Art Design" magazines and is a graduate of LaVarenne Ecole de Cuisine (founded by the extraordinary Anne Willan). She has worked extensively as a pastry chef, food stylist, caterer, and has authored several other dessert books. Cakewise, Boyle is in the same caregory as Carole Walter, Susan Purdy, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Maida Heatter, Carole Bloom, and Lisa Yockelson - all of whose books I own, along with anoither dozen devoted to cakes alone. Did I need this one? Absolutely. Did I glean things from this volume that I had not found in others. Without question. Is it worth $40? (less on amazon.com and other sites). Yes, it is.
In the third chapter, entitled "Cake-Baking Equipment", there is a handy "Guide to Cake Pan Sizes" giving not only surface area, but volume in cups for 24 diffent pans! A guide to blanching and toasting nuts in Chapter 4: "Cake-Making Techniques, Tips and Troubleshooting" provides oven temperatures specific to five different varieties of nuts.
Wonderful book..........2007-08-31
... great range of recipes, and they all work (unlike Martha's Baking Book).
Definitely recommend this for non-beginners only though.
Almost perfect ..........2007-04-21
I loved this book. I think Tish Boyle is very underrated in the food world - she is one of the best bakers around. The reason I rated this a 4 rather than a 5 has nothing to do with the recipes. It has to do with the publisher. A book this good and this expensive should have a color picture accompanying every recipe.
Tried and like it!!!.......2007-04-19
I got this book for the reputation of the author and tried some recipes already and loved them!!!! The carrot cake is really, really good. Instructions are clear enough for my 13 year old boy to follow (he made the carrot cake) and complete sucessfully. I am a pastry cook and really appreciate that that the recipes are in weight as well (weighting ingredients is more accurate than measuring).
I highly recommend this book for novice and pros alike!!!
Cake Maker.......2007-03-21
I really enjoyed this book. Felt that the recipes and information were useful.
Product Description
Here is the complete cooky book ~ more than 450 recipes, dozens of appetizing full-color photographs, and many how-to sketches. Embraces tastes from the old-fashioned and traditional to the new and sophisticated. Printed in the U.S.A. (Age 5+)
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Best cookie book ever.......2007-09-24
I grew up choosing christmas cookies out of this book. I have wonderful memories of paging through it; I'm not sure, but I think every cookie is pictured (not individually, but in groupings), this is great for the little kids that want to choose a recipe, they just say, "I want that one". A few years back when I had my daughter, my Mom looked into getting one for me off ebay and was impressed that they were collectable, and expensive (the older ones anyway). Between this and her inexperiance with the internet she never got me one and isn't ready to give up hers yet. So now that I have two daughters and the first is at an age that she enjoys dumping ingredients into the mixer I just ordered one so we can choose and make cookies together this christmas.
Love It!.......2007-08-25
I love to bake pies, cakes and cookies. I have many cookbooks and find this particular cooky book very enjoyable. Recipes are easily explained and the full page pictures enhance the recipes.
Great book for bakers and for people who love vintage things.......2007-08-23
I love this book, haven't made anything in it, but I just like having it in my library. It's wonderful to look through, the recipes aren't low-fat, low-cholesterol, they're good old-fashioned baking recipes that comfort me just looking at them. The pictures are really wonderful too, very heartwarming and reminiscent of a kinder time. I enjoy this book so much I am giving it as a wedding gift in a basket filled with like items: cookie cutters, measuring cups, a new "old style" glass cookie jar with a red enamel lid and some sage plaid dishtowels because this book reminds me of what all homes should be about: family, good food and good memories!
The one and only classic cooky book.......2007-07-17
Is cooky really spelled cooky? I have always spelled it "cookie". But who really cares, this book is full of great recipes for both. This book is going onto the third generation in my family. I learned to make cookies as a kid with my my mom's copy, my kids learned from my copy and I have bought this book for each of them as they have moved out of the house. Now I am replacing my own time-worn copy. Lemon bars, ginger almond cookies, chocolate crinkles, Ethel's sugar cookies (I don't know who Ethel is but I love her recipe), snickerdoodles, etc. Buy this book for yourself and your kids.
The book YOUR Grandmother learned to bake cookies from!.......2007-07-12
That is how I introduced my granddaughter to this new & less ragged copy of my beloved Betty Crocker's Cooky Book! There are no "hard" recipes here, very little "artificial" and all of it good. A wonderful way to share some fun with the kids while eliminating all the "junk."
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Better Homes and Gardens kitchen-tested cookie recipes please every cookie lover.
A wide variety of cookie recipes, including traditional standbys and new cookie ideas, ensures bakers always have the right recipe for any cookie occasion.
Cookie basics and expert tips give cooks confidence their cookie creations will never fail.
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Wonderful and easy!.......2007-02-11
I bought this book based on the other reviews, and because over the years I have enjoyed baking with the holiday season baking magazines put out by Better Homes & Gardens. I have had this book about two weeks and have made the Pecan Bars and the Banana Bars. I took the Pecan Bars to a party and within 2 minutes of putting the cookie platter down I had three people ask for the recipe. I made the banana bars yesterday, and thought that I had died and gone to heaven. They are so rich and wonderful especially with the browned butter frosting. I know that I am going to find all kinds of favorites in this book, and that I will have lots of fun baking new things!
Great and Original Recipes.......2006-09-01
The Snickerdoodle Pinwheels recipe (p. 174) is one of our favorites. It's better than the traditional Snickerdoodles.
There's something for everyone. Nut lovers, nut haters. Chocolate lovers. etc.
Good Cookies.......2005-07-06
I like this book very much, and recommend it highly. It is a rare combination of 2 things that I enjoy every much: rich and fattening cookies, and recipes that work.
This book has 475 cookie recipes that have all been thoroughly tested by the test kitchens at Better Homes and Gardens. As such, every recipe I have ever done from this book has worked the first time through. With this many cookies, you are sure to find a recipe that fills the bill, and you will find rarities such as rosettes, cookie gun recipes, and pizzelle. There were some that I did not like, but that is not because the recipe was faulty, but because I just didn't like the cookie (this is especially true of the some of the bar cookies). This is also a handy book if you have youngsters who want to help you make cookies: the recipes won't fail you, and there are several "smiley face" sort of cookies that will appeal to children, and also many bars that are easy to do, even for children.
Also commendable is the format. The book is plastic spiral bound, which means that the book lies flat on the table when you are trying to do a recipe from it. Each recipe has a full page devoted to it, meaning that the text is nice and large and easy to read, and the recipe is nicely spread out over the printed page and not just jammed into a corner of it.
There are a few problems:
1) the most aggravating of which is side-bar mania, that is the placing of important information about techniques, ingredients, and equipment in random places throughout the book where you will never find them when you need them.
2) The actual introductory material on how to bake cookies in general in the first chapter is rather scanty. If all the above mentioned side-bars where collected and put into the first chapter, it might make for a decent primer on cookie making.
3) at one point, the authors suggest that you boil dried fruits in brandy on the stove. This sounds like a good recipe for a kitchen fire.
4) the chapter on bar cookies, in a side bar, admonishes you to always use the correct size pan. By my count, however, the chapter uses 5 different pan sizes, and you are unlikely to have all of them. Would it have been that much trouble to standardize all the bar recipes to one or two pan sizes?
5) this book had its share of marginal recipes: those that used mixes or store-bought cookie doughs, plus all those that have oats and/or dried fruit in them.
6) The flour measurement is spoon-and-sweep, but this important information is buried in a section titled "What makes cookies too dry?"
It has the following chapters (the chapter titles were too cute by half): Cookie Basics, Sweet Spoonfuls, Heavenly Hand-Shaped Cookies, Mold and Pressed Shapes, Slices of Delight, Rolling Pin Favorites, Fabulous Filled Cookies, Simple Shortcuts, Best Bars and Brownies.
Eighty tips for making homemade cookies better.......2004-05-06
Enhanced with more than one hundred mouth-watering color photographs; a comprehensive index and an separate index listing cooky recipes especially appropriate for the holidays; eighty tips for making homemade cookies better than any that can be bought in even the more upscale bakeries; and easy-to-follow methods for making, baking, and decorating cookies, bars, and brownies; the Better Homes & Gardens' Biggest Book Of Cookies is a spiral bound compendium of cookies that will make you hungry just to browse through! From Pecan Crispies; Spiced Apple Drops; Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cookies; and Peppermint Candy Cookies; to Scandinavian Almond Bars; Watermelon Cookies; Gingerbread Cookies; and Mascarpone Creams, every recipe comprising the Biggest Book Of Cookies will turn even the most novice kitchen cook into a world class cookie baking chef!
No other book neded.......2004-04-02
This is THE book, you will need no other. I have been buying the grocery checkout seasonal cookie books for years and now I can give them away. All of my tried and true favorites are in one place now. I bake a lot of cookies and I have been pleased with every recipe I have tried. I look forward to new discoveries. I especially like the separate indexes; holiday suggestions are featured separately. The index also features listings by ingredient, so if you are looking for apricot, or pecan, or oatmeal, you can bake a treat based on what you have at hand. I have bought three of these as gifts already--bridal shower season is here. I collect cookie cookbooks and lately this is the one that I reach for most often. It is underpriced for the value. If it is not in here, there is probably not a recipe for it. I highly recommend this as an investment purchase... You deserve it.
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Thunder Cake.......2007-05-12
This is a wonderful book ! My grandaughter's teacher had the kids read it in class. I made a thunder cake and took it in for the class when they were done. The receipe is in the back of the book. They loved it and it was a lot of fun. Also, a good book for children afraid of thunder storms. I highly recommend it.
Thundercake.......2006-04-23
I Love This Book! I read it to my Toddler daycare class and they were so into this book. It held their attention. Now when they hear thunder they want to make a thundercake.
Thundercake.......2006-01-12
Patricia Polacco did a wonderful job on this book! The illustrations were very helpful to teach the setting of a story. This was also an educational link to teach along with weather. My students loved this book and comprehended it very well because each student was very interested in the story line. I would suggest to any elementary teacher to integrate this book within their literature or science lesson in some sort of way.
Ariella Saltzman.......2005-11-15
I love Patricia Polacco's books, especially this one. I enjoyed this book immensely. She writes about herself as a little girl, visiting her grandmother in Michigan. As a little girl, Polacco was terrified of thunderstorms. In this book, she recalls her times with her grandmother, Babushka. Through her detailed description of her time spent with her Babushka, the reader feels as if he/she is walking along side Polacco as a little girl and her grandmother, right before a storm. The reader is cheering Polacco on, as her grandmother helps her get over her fears of the storm.
Through Polacco's strong vocabulary, she describes the extent of the thunderstorm. She uses words such as bellowed and sultry, which are great words to teach children. Polacco shows the reader a loving relationship between granddaughter and grandmother. Children can relate to both being afraid of something and have a close relationship with a grandmother. This loving book is made even better with Polacco's fun illustrations. The faces of the characters are so detailed, that it is easy for a reader to see how the character is feeling without even reading the words.
I would recommend all of Patricia Polacco's books, but this one is one of my favorites. Many kids are afraid of thunderstorms and this book is a great book to help children overcome their fears of thunder, or any other fear.
Mom's best friend.......2005-11-10
Our daughter was petrified of all loud noises, especially thunder. We found this book and it became her favorite. Every approaching storm she would go get her book. We even made the cake several times. It was delicious! This book helped her thru some very scary stuff and she always smiled when we finished. For parents of thunder-scared children, I highly recommend it.
Book Description
Why wait for the holidays to bake and decorate cookies? Let Margie and Abbey Greenberg show you how to make beautiful and easy cookies that are perfect for gifts year-round--plus, they taste great! The Flour Pot Cookie Book is a fun and fanciful exploration into the world of cookie decoration, featuring designs for all occasions, or for no occasion at all. People will think these cookies are almost too pretty to eat! With more than 40 decoration ideas, grouped by theme, this book is a sure-hit with home bakers.
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How Do You Plan to Use This Book?.......2007-09-30
I purchased the book today and I've decided to return it. Kudos to the authors for figuring out how to use fondant for cookies. However, if I tell you to buy fondant, roll it, cut it with the same cookie cutter, adhere it to the cookie with corn syrup and decorate with royal icing -- you don't need to buy the book.
The photography is beautiful, but the book didn't inspire me as other decorating books have. If you are a fondant novice, this may not be the book for you as it lacks detailed instructions. I would also recommend practicing with royal icing before you begin your cookie project. Some designs use royal icing flowers, but there are no instructions about how to make them. These can be purchased at a cake decorating store or you can use other resources to learn to pipe them.
I was looking forward to this book, but it has turned out to be a disappointment.
Great book!!.......2007-07-31
I am new with fondant icing on cookies but found it really easy to decorate the cookies with fondant instead of the usual royal icing but not so keen on the ribbons decoration. Their sugar cookie recipe is also very delicious and quite soft in texture.
I recomment this book for a beginner.
Professional Results Fast.......2007-06-18
What I love about this book: The cookies are covered in fondant. This method allows me to decorate in half the time. Cookies decorated the traditional way, with a sugar glaze, are often too sweet ar simply don't taste good. NOt to mention time consuming to decorate. If you have a favorite, great tasting fondant recipe this technique will give you cookies that taste as good as they look. I would not use commercial fondant on these cookies as this type of fondant usually don't taste good.
Some things I don't like: inedible decorations like fabric bows, no templates.
Overall I still am very pleased with this book. I use it as an inspiration for my own cookie designs. The pleasure alone that I get from browsing it makes it money well spent
A useful book, with a couple of caveats.......2007-05-31
I like that I now understand the basic method for decorating cookies using fondant. I do feel the book is at times slightly short on details, for beginners anyway. For some examples:
*Necessary tools are not always explained, such as what a border cutter is.
*There is no indication of how to attach the stick to a cookie on designs that require that.
*Complicated designs, such as squiggly pattern of accent fondant on top of a shoe cookie (displayed in a photo), sometimes do not include instructions for how to achieve that affect.
Also, a note about how fondant compares in taste and texture to cookies frosted with royal icing would be nice.
One final note: Although there are a few supplier web sites provided at the end of the book, I haven't been able to find all of the sugar flowers like the ones the authors used in the book, or where one could order many flowers of just one color. Since readers may want to try the designs in the book, it would be good if more specific info were given about where to locate the items needed.
But all in all, a good book.
Beautiful cookie designs.......2007-04-06
The only thing I didn't like in this entire book were the non-edible bows that were used. I love to have everything edible except for the wrapper. The designs and the detail were amazing, and this is a book I will use over and over again. I even checked out their website and am a true fan now.
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Leslie Herbert's Complete Book of Sugar Flowers.......2007-10-03
This is a very lovely book. Full of great information for the more advanced decorator. It is a fine one to add to your permanent library, especially if you really enjoy making fondant/gumpaste flowers. She offers some of the more interesting and unusual flowers. She is from the U.K. so some of the flowers are not ones we get in the U.S.A. Most of these flowers require cutters, but she does include some that do not. There are good step by step directions, provided you do have some knowledge of this medium. The only flower that I can't find a cutter for here is the carnation and it looks as though it would be a great way to make it, too.
Variety.......2007-04-06
I am just starting out with gum paste and sugar flowers. This book has a wide variety of different flowers.
SUGAR FLOWER BOOK REVIEW.......2006-07-27
I THINK THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK FOR ANYONE WHO KNOWS THE BASICS OF SUGAR FLOWER MAKING AND WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE. ITS WELL WRITTEN AND GIVES DETAILED INSTRUCTION AND MANY FLOWERS TO MAKE THAT ARE HARD TO TELL FROM THE REAL THING.
I LOVE IT.
Glorious Sugar Flowers.......2000-05-04
If you have any experience of gum paste flowers you will love this book. Excellent clear step by step colour pictures and good explanatory text. Glorious pictures of finished cakes and flower bouquets. Not for the beginner though as some of the techiniques are quite complex. Buy this book if you are looking for inspiration and a challenge .
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These cupcakes—from the owner of the Cupcake Caboose Company—are the yummiest and best looking ever! They come in sweet chocolate or creamy vanilla, dyed and decorated with dazzling designs. Best of all, every kid can make one. Ambitious little bakers will enlist a parent’s help and start from scratch, using the well-illustrated recipes for both cupcakes and frosting. Or they might want to get creative with store-bought pastries, mixes, and packaged icings. Either way, becoming a “cupcake artist” is easy, especially with the handy “cupcake key” to explain which are simplest and which need a little more practice. It’s delicious fun!
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Very cute.......2007-09-03
Not the most sophisticated of cupcake books but very cute for kids. Lots of fun ideas that are easier than decorating with frosting. They use a lot of candy pieces to make bunnies and butterflies. Very cute and fun though and it has a few handy recipes for cupcakes and frostings at the beginning of the book.
Cute Cupcake Ideas.......2007-08-15
This book has a lot of nifty and cute cupcake ideas....but I think it is mainly meant for kids or beginners. It's nice if you want to make fast and easy cupcakes. If you are looking for more intricate cupcakes, or elaborate recipes, don't buy this book.
Simple cupcakes.......2007-05-30
I'm from Australia and we dont get the range of books that appear here on Amazon. I read the reviews to help me purchase items,but I think I just got very excited with my order and shouldnt have purchased this item. I already have several cupcake books. As other reviews have stated this book is great for a kids' cookbook. I was looking for a cupcake book to inspire me - different designs, new things. I think I will shelve this book for when my baby gets a little older. If you are cupcake afficionado looking for more inspiration for yourself, I suggest you skip this purchase, but if you have a child and you'd like to cook together, then this is the book for you.
Childrens and Adults be transported creatively.......2007-01-05
The book is full of surprises and easy recipes to follow and scrumptiously designed. It's like a delicious layer cake you want to display let alone make. It also makes a wonderful gift for the 7 yr. old to 100 yr. old.
Great .......2007-01-03
This is a great cookbook. The pictures make it easy to see how it should turn out.
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Cookies and Cakes and Sweets, Oh My..........2007-01-28
I can't say enough good things about this particular cookbook. I bought one for each family at Christmas and included different flavored cake mixes, chips, and puddings and it was a hit!! The best thing about baking the cookies is that there isn't a huge batch and you are done from start to finish in about 30 minutes with only a few ingredients. If you like chocolate, there are two recipes that are so gooey and chocolately that I can't even eat them but everyone else LOVES them. I love to bake so I am really a critic when it comes to recipes and you won't be disappointed. Every recipe that I've tried has been excellent.
Cake Mix Bible book.......2006-07-05
This is book provides a wide variety of receipes for all types of bakers, from the expert to the beginner. Also has recepies for treats for young children. This is also a very nice for a gift to someone.
Colorful cakes, if that's what you want.......2005-12-13
This cake mix book is based on the concept of creating beautiful cakes using prepared cake mixes. It is a nice idea, especially for those who would be willing to sacrifice a bit of taste for convenience.
However, many of the recipes in this book are little more than your cake mix with some fruity/sugary sauce or colorful icing decoration slathered on it. The icing designs look cute in a crayon drawing, but look a bit scary on a food item. Since since these designs are targeted for kids, this is a bit worrisome because that is a lot of food coloring for a little kid's liver to process, not to mention the amount of sugar in that much icing. Just be sure to read up on diabetes before you crack open this book.
Health aside, the book does have colorful photos. The photos illustrate the main focus of the book - few of the cakes actually look exquisite, but they're all cheerfully colored and cute looking. The book is perfect for those who don't mind their cakes ending up with similar taste but enjoy just a moment of sugar high amid the cuteness. For those who relish the freshness and tenderness of a real chocolate cake, who possess a more nuanced ability to distinguish the sweetness between fruits and high fructose corn syrup, prepare to look elsewhere.
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- Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
- Love, Lies and Liquor
- Fairyopolis
- Basic Tig and Mig Welding: GTAW and GMAW
- Date or Soul Mate
- The Complete Book of Figure Skating
