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Joy the Baker Cookbook: 100 Simple and Comforting Recipes Paperback – February 28, 2012

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"Joy is what made me want to bake. Stumbling on her blog was one of the luckiest and most inspirational things that has happened to me. Not only does she have recipes that could kill a man or woman (in the this-is-so-delicious-I-can-die-now way), she also is brilliantly funny and her insight and commentary on life is incredible. She's an insanely talented writer and an even better baker. To put it simply, she's the best ever, and I love her like crazy. The fact that I get to declare that to the world in her incredible cookbook is, to be completely earnestly cheesy, just icing on the cake."--Emma Stone

"Joy modestly admits that she is not a classically trained pastry chef, however, her book proves how that can actually be an advantage. Joy bakes with her complete heart and soul, writes from the gut, and makes us feel that we too can make magic in the kitchen."--Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan, cookbook author and creator of TheKitchn

"The best thing would be to have Joy the Baker *actually* bake all these things with you in your kitchen. The next best thing is reading her book, written with the exact same charming, hilarious in-person style that makes you feel like she's right there with you, sharing the recipes that come from her heart and soul."--Sarah Gim, TasteSpotting

"When I first heard the name "Joy the Baker," I immediately felt happy and warm. I couldn't help it. And in the years I've gotten to know Joy the Person--and her beautiful, warm, comforting style of food--I can say without hesitation that she absolutely lives up to her name. Joy the Baker brings joy--through her writing, through her food . . . and through her unabashed enthusiasm for life."--Ree Drummond, author of The Pioneer Woman

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Joy Wilson is a self-taught cook who grew up baking with her Dad. In 2006, she started a wedding cake and wholesale baking business in L.A.. In 2008, she began the Joy the Baker blog, which was named "Best Baking Blog" by Foodbuzz in 2009, and was also nominated for "Best New Blog" in the 2009 Bloggies. In 2010, it was again nominated for a "Best Food Blog" Bloggie. It was named one of the "Top 50 Food Blogs" by The London Times. Joy is also a co-founder of On the Lamb, a roving events company that throws speakeasy parties, underground suppers, and teaches culinary classes all over Los Angeles. Along with her co-founders, she has gained a big following in Los Angeles after being featured on Daily Candy.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1401310605
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hachette Books; Illustrated edition (February 28, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781401310608
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401310608
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.63 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.13 x 0.63 x 9 inches

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JOY WILSON is the voice behind the popular blog Joy the Baker. She's obsessed with butter, sugar, cream, and dark chocolate.

Joy's love for sweets began at an early age with her father, a fanatical pie baker, and her mother, a cake decorator. Joy quickly learned that the shortest route between her and a warm batch of brownies was a bowl, wooden spoon, and hot oven.

Joy is a self taught baker whose obsession was honed as a Ben and Jerry's cake decorator, and professional (crack of dawn) baker in various bakeries in Los Angeles. Joy has made everything from biscuits to wedding cakes... but her favorite thing in the world is a tall stack of pancakes.

In her first cookbook, Joy illustrates that muffins are best served warm, bread should be studded with chocolate, and even avocados can be made into cake. It's a simple celebration of butter, sugar, and flour.

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pepperminta

Creative, delicious and like having a good girlfriend hanging out the kitchen

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2012

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I've been following Joy's blog for a while and had to get this cookbook when it came out! I'm kind of a glutton for cookbooks (i have well over 100+) and bake in every spare moment I can, so I had to pick this up!

The cookbook is beautiful and the price is fantastic for what you are getting. She has an excellent introduction / tips section with some wonderful tips for any novice bakers (re: temperature of butter / adding citrus zest to granulated sugar, improvising when you're out of buttermilk or brown sugar). She has photos for nearly every single recipe (over 95%) - which is an absolutely must-have for inspiration and just for drooling purposes as you browse through the cookbook. And i love her friendly tips and chattiness. She devotes an entire chapter to breakfast and prefaces it with "dear future husband and future children" - I almost died laughing. I love it! She seems so funny, warm and approachable and her love for food radiates through each recipe.

So in sum:
1) beautiful cookbook (visually just beautiful)
2) excellent price
3) wonderful tips throughout the book
4) 5 stars for originality (brown butter cookies, using avocado creatively, carrot cake pancakes etc.)
5) practical. I mean, pretty much every single recipe can be done with whatever you have at home and you won't need to hunt things down to them done.

I've made three things:

1) coconut /macaroon ice cream: i had to. i am in a coconut oil obsession phase, i love coconut (mounds/ macaroons) and i am obsessed with magic shell chocolate sauce (that i have not eaten in years b/c it's loaded w/ too much junk). the ice cream base couldn't be simpler (coconut milk + light coconut milk + sugar) as opposed to whipping cream + whole milk + sugar (btw, i am an ice cream person....have 2 ice cream makers and make it weekly). the base was delicious. i found the unsweetened shredded coconut at whole foods. the magic shell was absolutely divine and i have it in a squeeze bottle. my only change would be to reduce the shredded coconut by half (for my personal taste). the taste and texture reminded me of the coconut mexican paletas (which i love) but i wanted it a little smoother. either way, my first batch was a double batch and i have two quarts of coconut ice cream in my freezer and a bottle of chocolate sauce. i cannot be trusted around this tasty dessert! so delicious.

2) brown butter chocolate chip cookies: her instructions for browning butter were spot on. i have an excellent chocolate chip cookie recipe i use very often and so that was what i was comparing it against. they were delicious and as she described "alluringly nutty." the texture and taste of the body of the cookie reminded me of what a heath bar (or english toffee) would taste like if it had to be a cookie. there is 3x amount of white sugar than brown, so it's more crispy than chewy. and i know she loves dark chocolate chips (b/c she calls for bittersweet). i like my cookies very chippy, so i doubled the chips and did 1 cup of bittersweet (63%) and 1 cup of semisweet. i am constantly adapting my recipes too, so if i made it again, i'd do an equal amount of granulated/brown sugar and up the chocolate chips.

my husband loved them, but i think it's more of an adult cookie...my (4 yr old) son liked them but i think the taste was more complex / had more depth than he was used to. my 1 1/2 yr old just gobbled it up. :)

3) carrot cake pancakes: delicious, desserty-pancakce for breakfast! i shredded the carrots the night before. the cream cheese frosting / topping is divine.

i have tagged many pages in this book and am sure each one will be a success.

for all the people (so far i saw one negative review) who are so critical of her or calling her "desperate for a husband" - please. don't make it personal. don't be haters people.

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Sweet and simple cookbook

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2012

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I've been a follower of Joy's blog well before the birth of this cookbook. I even checked how far back- April 2008 and it began with red velvet black and white cookies. It's safe to say I was WAY excited and totally pre-ordered this book. It's arrived, shiny and pink. To be honest, it's totally awesome. Here is why!
Instead of printing out recipes, constantly peering at my smartphone, or getting flour all over my laptop, I have a real life cookbook with Joy the Baker's recipes. That's a selfish reason but here's the main thing about Joy's recipes: they are not at all complicated. She gets that you don't always have the finest of brown sugar, Madgascar vanilla bean, truffle oil or grey French sea salt on hand. She is a real person with a real kitchen, real budget, and the same kind of real life limitations that we all run in to when baking. The best part is that there's a whole section of this cookbook related to that. It also has little ways to get around those and still make a pretty delicious baked good!
Joy's effervescent writing doesn't get as much chance to shine as it does when you read her blog but the little bits and pieces she threw in do her justice. (P.S. Negative Nancy, there's only one recipe called "Man Bait" and I find it cheeky and charming. The other whole two or so references to a future husband and children are just Joy's writing style - kind of daydreamy and witty.)BUT I digress to the thing that actually matters- the recipes look delicious and yep, are mostly idiot-proof.
It is mostly sweets but on occasion in a chapter, you'll get a savory thing here or there. I was absolutely satisfied with the book and think that if you're out to bake a killer cake or batch of cookies, you'll be happy too.

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Solid go-to baking book.

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2012

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What can I say that hasn't already been said? Joy's cookbook, just like her blog, is solid and my go-to reference when I want to make something delicious with an added pinch of uniqueness. Her browned butter chocolate chip cookies are some of the best chocolate chip cookies I've ever made (and I've made several). Her trail mix cookies are addictive! Her "easy no-roll pie crust" saved me during the holidays when I took on making pies, but was still intimidated about rolling them out. It is also an awesome recipe for throwing a pie crust together for everything from quiche, to buttermilk pie. I recently made her peach cobbler muffins now that the farmers' markets in my area are brimming with peaches and nectarines, and they were great for breakfast ;) The zucchini cream cheese poundcake is also a winner right now as well when you are trying to figure out what to do with all that zucchini from the summer bounty! It has a melt in your mouth creamy texture. Finally, the cheddar chive & jalapeno biscuits go especially well with some shrimp and cheddar grits. I like replacing some of the flour in that recipe with finely ground cornmeal. I have my own little blog (Baker With a Cause) and feature Joy's trail mix and browned butter chocolate chip cookies on there. If you care to see some step-by-step photos, feel free to check it out. In the meantime, definitely add this book to your collection. It won't disappoint.

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GirlHasCake

Great addition to any food enthusiast's collection

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2012

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For a British buyer, there are 2 things you need to know about Joy The Baker:

1 - Joy is a blogger. This means that in this cookbook, her recipes are accompanied by the kinds of things she talks about on her blog. Sometimes she talks about relationships or future children, sometimes she will recall childhood memories, sometimes she will declare her undying love for peanut butter, sometimes she will be having an imaginary conversation with you and sometimes she will just be writing about how much she loves the recipe on that page. Her style is sweet, chatty and fun. The advantage of this is that you get the feeling that Joy is there with you, telling you how to make these gorgeous recipes and that everything is going to be alright. However, if you're just wanting a book that simply gives you instructions on how to make something, each recipe's introduction may get on your nerves.

2 - Joy is American. This means that all her oven temperatures are given in Fahrenheit and her measurements are in cups or ounces. If you're not familiar with these measurements, find a conversion chart (easily done through a quick Google search), print out and keep inside the cover. Small hint, don't try to convert cups to grams - volume to weight rarely works well! The fact Joy is American also means that sometimes she uses spice blends that you can't get in the UK. Again, this is something that you can Google and find out the ingredients to replicate or alternatively, use your intuition and make up your own spice blend. Despite these transatlantic technical issues, the fact that Joy is American means that she does amazing things with bacon, peanut butter, buttermilk, avocados and popcorn - the kinds of which we don't often see over here.

To me, Joy the Baker, is all about fun twists on old recipes, comfort baking and good writing. I've made a few of the recipes already and they're turning out really well (man-bait apple crisp was a big hit with my friends and I discovered how addictive bacon peanut butter cookies can be...!). I also found the kitchen tips section at the beginning really useful with really good advice on things like what to do when you can't get hold of buttermilk, how to make your own vanilla extract, how to get the most flavour out of citrus zest, etc.

As you can tell, I really love this book. Whether you're just getting into baking or if you already have an abundance of cookbooks (like me!) I'm sure this will be a welcome addition to your collection.

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Sara

Joy is a Kitchen Angel from Sugary Heaven

Reviewed in Canada on May 2, 2012

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I bought this cookbook after following Joy the Baker's blog for the past two years. I frequently buy cookbooks and they sit on my shelves mostly unused, though I do read them -- it always just seems easier to search for recipes online. This cookbook is the exception for me. I've had it less than a month and have already made six recipes from it, every one a new delight. The recipes are straight forward, delicious, comforting. Joy Wilson's writing voice is casual & personal and she makes me laugh even when I'm in a nasty crunchy mood. She makes baking seem fun, accessible, and even therapeutic. I have brownies and cookies coming out my ears and I'm giving them away to my neighbors! I'm gonna be the new most popular girl on the block. I highly highly highly recommend this cookbook. Five gold stars.

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H. A. Davis

One of my go to cookbooks

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2014

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This is my go to cookbook for so many cakes now. The kitchen sink carrot cake, simple vanilla cupcakes, chocolate bourbon-spiked banana bread, pumpkin bundt cake are just a few of the recipes I use time and time again. If you have an ice cream maker and you love peanut butter then try the chocolate and salty peanut butter ice cream. It was hard not to eat it all! And yes this book has American measurements and temps. In this modern world there is no excuse not to go out and buy yourself a set of cups. I bought this set on amazon and they work perfectly http://www.amazon.co.uk/VonShef-Quality-Stainless-Measuring-Measures/dp/B00DTTJR8K/ref=sr_1_5?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1412022178&sr=1-5&keywords=measuring+cups. Temps are easy to convert online. Her recipes are "never fail" and not complicated. You will not be disappointed!

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Judy Krist

Fantastic book

Reviewed in Canada on January 18, 2021

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This is a book you will want to keep handy in your kitchen.

Lady Meringue

Fun, modern and easy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2015

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I love this book! As well as the modern, delicious and easy recipes there are quirky tips such as how to make your own vanilla extract or soft brown sugar if you've run out and can't get to a shop, and it's all done in really friendly, chatty style. Yes, it is slightly inconvenient to have to convert American cups into metric measurements but it only takes a few minutes to jot them down or, as others have suggested, buy American cups.

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