Easiest and Best Coffee Cakes and Quick Breads: Great Breads and Cakes to Stir and Bake [Paperback]

Renny Darling (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1985

More than 500 outstanding cakes, breads, muffins, biscuits, and strudels to delight family and friends. The only cookbook of its kind, devoted entirely to extravagant cakes and breads that need only to be stirred and baked. Includes great "conversation" dinner breads, amazing cakes and tortes, muffins, biscuits, and scones.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Royal House Pub Co (September 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930440196
• ISBN-13: 978-0930440190
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,122,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easiest & Best Coffee Cakes & Quick Breads by Renny Darling, December 20, 2000

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Lisa Byers (Water Mill, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easiest and Best Coffee Cakes and Quick Breads: Great Breads and Cakes to Stir and Bake (Paperback)

This is, by far, the most treasured cookbook in my collection. I have tried nearly every recipe in the book, and they are all excellent. I bake regularly for my family and friends, and have a reputation as being a "fantastic" baker, and it's all because of Renny Darling's fabulous recipes. The instructions are clear, easy to read and follow, and the outcome is always perfect. There are wonderful recipes for banana breads, cranberry breads, pumpkin breads, as well as cakes, muffins, and scones. Renny also indicates how to change cooking time to adapt quick bread recipes to muffins, or cakes and vice versa. You will not be disappointed in this "Cake Bible."

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure book of luscious treats, August 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Easiest and Best Coffee Cakes and Quick Breads: Great Breads and Cakes to Stir and Bake (Paperback)

I had never heard of Renny Darling before my husband brought this book home to me as a gift for our first wedding anniversary. That was over five years ago, and I continue to use this cookbook for sweet treats more than any other baking/dessert cookbook I own. Darling's philosophy is that baking is a labor of love, but in this book, as she says in her introduction, she has taken out the labor--these recipes really ARE easy to make, and use ingredients that are simple, not impossible to find. This cookbook has no photographs in it, but they aren't needed! Just casually perusing the book will get you inspired to start baking! Darling includes muffins, lots of quick breads and coffee cakes, and also some more sophisticated tortes which are still quite easy to prepare. If you like to bake at all, you must have this cookbook in your collection--you will not regret buying it!

This is the cookbook I use to prepare all of our family's birthday cakes, and I have also obtained my "signature" banana bread recipe from it: Sour Cream Banana Bread with Chocolate Glaze. I have made it almost a dozen times, and love to give it away to friends and neighbors, who always rave about it and often request the recipe for themselves. The book includes lots of easy glazes, icings and other toppings which are so quick to prepare and make the products seem so extra-special. Among my other favorites are: Chocolate Pumpkin Pecan Cake, Fresh Apple Sour Cream Cake, Spiced Carrot and Orange Bread, and Danish Apple Strudel.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easiest and Best is truly easiest and best!!!!!, January 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Easiest and Best Coffee Cakes and Quick Breads: Great Breads and Cakes to Stir and Bake (Paperback)

I love baking and have hundreds of cookbooks to prove it. I have all kinds of books that are supposed to "baking bibles" with intricate instructions on how to bake perfect cakes. But since I bought this book, I have barely opened the others. The methods in this book are so simple and the results are so moist and delicious that you almost feel as if you cheated. This is a must have for bakers of all skill levels.