Customer Reviews

Desserts from Your Bread Machine

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Every recipe seemed like you always needed to refrigerate your dough for a very long time before you could actually bake, then enjoy. A lot of the recipes called for specialty items that you just can't go to the local grocery and buy. Laura sells these items on her own out of a magazine. I am thinking of ordering some just so that I can try these recipes but the prices are a bit high.

I just made the triple chocalate babka - very good but took a long time to get to the finished project. The recipes are nice and tasty but time consuming so start in the morning if you want something by dinner!

If you like desserts & have a bread machine, this book is for you! Try the Croissants...try the Chocolate & Cherry Loaf...try them all!! Recipe variations for each of the major brands of bread machines, and lots of helpful information included.

I've tried a couple of recipes from this book over the many years I've owned it and they've both been less than impressive. Part of my frustration is that each recipe has different directions and ingredients depending on the model of bread machine you own, leaving you really stuck if your machine isn't on the list. (Or if models have changed since 1994.) This also means that there aren't a lot of recipes given the size of the book. Ingredients are expensive and in my case, wasted.

If you're looking for dough recipes that you can finish by hand and monitor, this book might be fine. (I haven't tried any of those.) I've had much success with other bread machine recipe books, but this one is heading for the donation bin.

I purchased this book. I don't recommend it. The recipes include ingredients that are difficult to find and expensive if you do find them. I gave my copy to a culinary arts student. She also finds it to be unrealistic for home cooks. I wasted my money on the book. I'm not willing to waste more on ingredients. Ms Brody needs to provide substitutes for the expensive ingredients she sells.