Essential Baker The Comprehensive Guide to Baking With Chocolates, Fruits, Nuts, Spices, And other Indredients

"Carole Bloom blends years of baking experience with a reassuring and personal voice. The beginning baker will find everything needed to create fabulous desserts successfully, and the experienced baker will find dozens of enticing new recipes. The Essential Baker is brilliantly organized by key ingredient, with generous tips and hints to encourage creativity. This is a wonderful addition to any baker's library and a perfect first book for a new baker." -Alice Medrich author of Bittersweet: Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate"Want to learn to bake? Buy just one book-this one. Having The Essential Baker is like having a lifetime of baking experience and teaching in your kitchen. Enough information and recipes to last any baker a lifetime." -Gale Gand, Executive Pastry Chef and partner of Tru, Host of the Food Network's Sweet Dreams, and author of Chocolate & Vanilla"An exhaustive and tantalizing look at baking. . . . Delectable." -Publishers Weekly, starred reviewBloom, Carole is the author of 'Essential Baker The Comprehensive Guide to Baking With Chocolates, Fruits, Nuts, Spices, And other Indredients', published 2007 under ISBN 9780764576454 and ISBN 0764576453.