Baking Unplugged [Hardcover]

Nicole Rees (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 20, 2009

Tired of complicated baking recipes that call for expensive equipment, complicated techniques, and hard-to-find ingredients? Baking, Unplugged comes to the rescue with a collection of simple, back-to-basics recipes for everything from muffins and breakfast pastries to cookies, pies, cakes, and puddings. These are baked goods just like grandma used to make, made from scratch with basic ingredients and standard kitchen equipment. The book includes 114 recipes in all, as well as basic instruction on ingredients, how to read a recipe, and how to set up an "Unplugged Kitchen." Recipe chapters include Treats for the First Half of the Day; Cookies and Bars; Cakes; Fruit Pies, Fruit Tarts, and More; and Creamy Desserts. The recipes include favorites such as Blueberry Muffins, Uncommonly Good Pancakes, Sour Cream Crumb Cake, Peanut Butter Molasses Cookies, Caramel Turtle Bars, Moist Vanilla Pound Cake, Cherry-Berry Pie, Classic Tiramisu, and Anytime Bread Pudding, and many are illustrated in a 16-page full-color insert.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470149116
• ISBN-13: 978-0470149119
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #369,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Basic, fun and wonderful, January 26, 2009

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KCR "KWDragon" (waaay up north) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baking Unplugged (Hardcover)

I heard about this book through the Splendid Table and, as usual, Lynne Rossetto Kasper was not wrong. Nicole Rees complies and updates some favorites from her kitchen. As she points out in the introduction, as a professional foodie, she has a million gizmos and gadgets in her kitchen, but it is the simple, no fuss recipes she turns to when she wants comfort foods that make her kitchen whole.

And these recipes provide a lot of comfort!

Already, thanks to Ms. Rees, I have ordered Lyle's Golden Syrup so I can make better ANZAC cookies. For the ones I made from her recipe (pg 99), I substituted Agave Nectar. They were great, but I wonder if the Lyle's will make them even better. Tomorrow, I will find out. I also made her PB&C Brownies today, which define "decadent" in a dessert.

I've used my great-grandmother's spoon to make some of the recipes, and I've used my Kitchenaid mixer on a few. In the short time I have had this book, I have done a lot of baking. With the subzero temperatures we have been experiencing, the baking has been a balm to my soul. My kids are thrilled with the treats, my husband is happy and I am really enjoying myself in the kitchen again. Rees's recipes focus on the simple joys of baking and eating, which is a welcomed break from some of the overly complex cookbooks out there.

I can see Baking Unplugged becoming a well-worn family favorite.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my favorite baking book-- and i have about 50, November 4, 2009

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subrosa (Brooklyn NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baking Unplugged (Hardcover)

No, it doesn't have pictures, but make just one recipe from this book and you'll have blind faith in every other one, and rightly so. The Guinness stout chocolate cake became my boyfriend's favorite cake-- ever-- until I made the chocolate cake with caramel whipped cream. And that caramel! I make it for everything that I can possibly top with smoky caramel sauce. The brownie scones, the oatmeal crisp-chocolate sandwiches...absolutely everything i've made from this book has been a roaring success.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best baking cookbook ever, December 21, 2010

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Susanna Throop - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Baking Unplugged (Hardcover)

Every recipe I've made has been absolutely delicious and very simple (it's true--no mixer or electrics needed). This is now my go-to cookbook for virtually all my baking, and I trust it implicitly. Can't recommend this highly enough!