Sidebars are chock full of tips for turning out perfect apple slab pie, fudge waffles, and cranberry almond coffee cake, to name a few. Also new in this version: an overview of gluten-free ingredients. More than 350 recipes cover the baking landscape and include quick breads, sourdough, crackers and flatbreads, cakes, pies, and tarts. Winner of the James Beard Foundation's Cookbook of the Year award in 2004, The King Arthur Baking Company's All-Purpose Baker's Companion got a refresh in 2021, with glossy new photos, recipes, and revisions. Full title: The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book: Uncommon Recipes from the Celebrated Brooklyn Pie Shop."For example, skip the eggs in the fruit fillings and make compotes or purées and use as ice cream topping or a parfait layer." "The recipes are very versatile, so I use them as bases and transform them," says Andrea Cote, pastry chef for RPM Restaurants in Chicago. The section on techniques is illuminating, too, with tips on how to create the flakiest pie crust and apply decorative touches. Find lavender blueberry pie in the summer and rhubarb custard pie in the spring-a nod to the fact that the Elsen sisters focus on fresh, in-season ingredients. The subsequent cookbook by owners and sisters Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen features 60 recipes for these and more, organized by season. The Brooklyn-based pie shop was an instant sensation when it opened in 2009 for outrageously delicious, nostalgic-with-a-twist pies in flavors like salted caramel apple and lemon chess. Full title: Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts."Her almond cake, a financier-type one that comes together in minutes in the food processor, is one I make constantly," he says. "It fully delivers on the 'easy' promise without turning out mediocre, over-simplified duds." Volger has made many of the book's recipes, and calls every single one a hit. "She has such a way of streamlining a recipe, technique, concept-to make it sound both logical and straightforward but also elegant and sexy and fun," he says. It's a baking and gifting favorite for Lukas Volger, recipe developer, editor, and cookbook author, most recently of Snacks For Dinner. Medrich also includes a section on "the dessert maker's basic pantry" in which she outlines the ingredients to keep in the pantry, fridge, and freezer-and all the desserts you can make whenever the mood strikes. With a range of recipes for puddings, pies, and cakes that come together quickly (plus over 100 recipes for no-fuss, no-bake treats) the book is a must for anyone with a sweet tooth who doesn't have the time to whip up elaborate sugary creations. The beauty of Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts is in baker Alice Medrich's recipes that are equal parts delicious and accessible.
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