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Home Baked Comfort (Williams-Sonoma): Featuring Mouthwatering Recipes and Tales of the Sweet Life with Favorites from Bakers Across the Country [Hardcover]

Kim Laidlaw (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: February 7, 2012
This gorgeous new baking book contains beloved classics and contemporary treats, from passionate baker and food editor Kim Laidlaw and America’s most revered bakeries and bloggers. Stunning, full-color photographs throughout bring it all to life. A mixture of nostalgia and fun, it is directed at both experienced bakers or anyone who might be curious about baking; there’s something here for everyone.

Favorites like caramel whoopie pies, sour cherry “toaster” tarts, deep dark chocolate cupcakes stuffed with marshmallow cream and glazed with ganache, and gooey s’mores brownies will take the reader back to childhood. Modern twists on classic comfort foods such as brown butter pound cake with fresh fig compote, flaky rhubarb turnovers, and crÈme brulee with caramelized blood oranges; and old family favorites like maple pumpkin pie, brown-sugar banana bread, and chocolate crinkle cookies will entice and inspire anyone to get in the kitchen and start baking.

Featured bakeries:

Baked (Brooklyn, NY)

Floriole CafÉ & Bakery (Chicago, IL)

Flour Bakery + CafÉ (Boston, MA)

Huckleberry CafÉ & Bakery (Santa Monica, CA)

Pearl Bakery (Portland, OR)

Salty Tart Bakery (Minneapolis, MN)

Sugar Mama’s Bakeshop (Austin, TX)

Tartine Bakery (San Francisco, CA)

Featured blogs:

Bakerella

Cannelle Et Vanille

La Tartine Gourmande

Smitten Kitchen

Table of Contents:

Why Bake?

Ten Tips for Becoming a Better Baker (and Enjoying It)

Top Baking Tools I Cannot Live Without

All About Ingredients

Amazing Baking Facts You Might Not Know

Breakfast

Breads

Cookies & Bars

Cakes & Cupcakes

Pies & Tarts

Custards & SoufflÉs

Basic Recipes

Tips & Tricks

Index

Sample recipes:

Bite-size Bacon and Cheese Scones

Lemon-Blueberry Drizzle Bread

Whoopie Pies with Salted Dulce de Leche

Cherry Potpies

Savory Goat Cheese SoufflÉs

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About the Author

Kim Laidlaw is a cookbook editor, food writer, and baker who has been in the kitchen covered in flour since she was big enough to stir the biscuit dough. She has worked in the cookbook world for over nine years and was the first blogger on KQED’s popular Bay Area Bites blog, which launched in 2005. Kim previously worked as a professional baker at La Farine French Bakery in Oakland, CA. She lives with her husband in San Francisco, CA.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Weldon Owen (February 7, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1616282002
  • ISBN-13: 978-1616282004
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 1 x 10.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Delicious Recipes March 6, 2012
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I found out about this book several months ago while it was an exclusive Williams-Sonoma purchase. A fellow blogger had contributed a recipe to it and when I peeked through the pages I knew I had to have it for my collection. As soon as it was released on Amazon.com, I snatched it up!

I've already tried a few recipes from the book and they've turned out great. They are simple with clear instructions, and a good amount of pictures to recipes. I also like how the book is divided into various recipe categories:

- Breakfast
- Breads
- Cookies & Bars
- Cakes & Cupcakes
- Pies & Tarts
- Custards & Souffles

I also like that this isn't your typical 'desserts-only' cookbook. As you can see from the sections, it covers sweet and savory, baked comfort classics. I've found that the recipes have all been solid across the board - from savory breakfast items, to sweet and decadent desserts.

It's a great item to add to your cookbook library.
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home baked comfort book March 29, 2012
By S. TRAN
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I baked a few desserts from these book and it tasted wonderful. The instructions is clear with beautiful pictures and alot of yummy recipes. I can't wait to bake from way through the book.
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Wow, Wow, Wow..reviewed for Netgalley, this is a cookbook I need to run out and grab. For the most part, I love William Sonoma cookbooks and this book would be a prime example of why!

First off, the recipes are beautiful, simple and elegant. Yet, even the most novice of bakers could pull these recipes together. One of the things I loved most about it, was that the author gave detailed descriptions and, for most recipes, pictures of various stages of preparation.

The recipes ranged from the simple to the exotic so the book is applicable not only for family favorites, but also for entertaining.
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