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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 – February 7, 2012

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This delicious new baking book from Williams-Sonoma has over 100 decadent, down-home, comfort food recipes, highlighting America’s most revered bakeries and bloggers with recipes from each. Stunning photography and a gorgeous design bring it all to life. In addition to the crave-worthy recipes, author Kim Laidlaw shares tips on becoming a better baker, offers insight on choosing the best kitchen tools, and reveals all you need to know about ingredients––ultimately showing how fun and easy baking can be.

Discover just how fun it is to transform the simplest ingredients—flour, sugar, eggs, butter—into irresistible baked goods. With over 100 recipes, starring family favorites and mouthwatering creations from seasoned bakers and popular bloggers, this enticing book will become your go-to source for luscious treats. You'll find recipes for gooey s’mores, brownies, and cherry "toaster tarts" that will take you back to childhood; modern twists on classic comforts such as flaky rhubarb turnovers and heirloom tomato and goat cheese tart; and classic favorites like maple pumpkin pie and chocolate crinkle cookies. So turn on your oven, pull out your mixing bowl, and spread the joy of baking!

Features more than 100 recipes, including caramel whoopie pies, sour cherry “toaster” tarts, deep dark chocolate cupcakes stuffed with marshmallow cream and glazed with ganache, gooey s’mores brownies, brown butter pound cake with fresh fig compote, flaky rhubarb turnovers, crème brulee with caramelized blood oranges, maple pumpkin pie, brown-sugar banana bread, and chocolate crinkle cookies.

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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224 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Weldon Owen
Publication date

February 7, 2012
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9 x 1 x 10.5 inches
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1616282002
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978-1616282004
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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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Weldon Owen; Gift edition (February 7, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1616282002
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616282004
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 1 x 10.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,727,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kim Laidlaw is an award-winning cookbook editor, author, and recipe developer. She is the co-author of national bestseller The Nightmare Before Christmas Cookbook and Amazon bestseller Five Mary's Ranch Raised Cookbook. She is the author of Williams Sonoma Everyday Slow Cooking, Quick Slow Cooking, Home Baked Comfort, and Dessert of the Day, as well as IACP award-nominated Baby & Toddler on the Go.

With over 20 years of experience in book publishing and packaging, Kim has managed hundreds of projects from conception to completion. Her clients include Hog Island, Weber, Liberty Ducks, Kendall-Jackson Winery, Williams Sonoma, KitchenAid, Saveur, EatingWell Magazine, KQED, American Girl, BabyCenter, and more.

As Executive Editor at Weldon Owen Publishing for more than 11 years, Kim packaged and managed more than 100 cookbooks, many for Williams Sonoma. A former tech editor and project manager for multi-million dollar websites, she led the digital effort at Weldon Owen, producing and scripting numerous book companion videos and implementing a Williams Sonoma cookbook app and interactive books.

Kim is a recipe developer and tester for such clients as Weber, SPARK grills, Disney, KitchenAid, Impossible Foods, Sitka Salmon, KQED Inc., Chef Tanya Holland, and other international chefs, bloggers, and cookbook authors. She is a former instructor at the acclaimed San Francisco Cooking School, and graduated from the California Culinary Academy. Kim previously worked as a professional baker at La Farine French Bakery in Oakland, CA.

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laurie Garrison

One of my go too baking books

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2015

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Home Baked Comfort is a must have baking book for your cookbook shelf. These easy to follow and mouthwatering recipes hits you right off the bat and makes you want to jump on in to the baking progress. I do have to warn this is not low fat so beware if your one that watches your weight.

I’m a real mom that loves to bake. I have just about every cookbook and baking book I can get my hands on. One thing I’m though is picky about my cookbooks and what stays on my shelf. I want easy to follow recipes because I don’t have the time to try to figure out what someone is trying to say and no matter what I try it won’t work. I also need something different because I have so many cookbooks and baking book now it gets hard to find that something different. I was totally surprised that this baking had everything I look for. I enjoyed making the recipes as much as I enjoyed looking and reading them.

I loved the topic about baking they covered here are a couple. I loved the Ten Tips for becoming a better baker and enjoying it. I totally agree with them use fresh ingredients. I myself find most people stress when it comes to baking the thing is it’s not all that hard to do and the reward of your efforts is wonderful. The basic thing I had to grasp is don’t buy cheap butter, flour or etc. and make sure your ingredients are fresh. A couple of extra dollars goes along why in baking, believe me I found out a longtime ago you can’t cut corners and want the best quality product to come out of your oven.

I also loved the Top Baking Tools I Cannot Live Without. I have to agree with them on the stand mixer, there is no way I would want to go without mine. Heck, my husband thinks I would kick him out of the bed for the mixer and you know what he might be right LOL.

Now last thing, there are several bakeries that participated in this cookbook and they get to tell a bit about themselves, here is one. There is one bakery in Portland, Oregon that puts out 1000 loves and 1500 rolls a day and they use 10,000 pounds of bread flour a week, so you know these guys have got something right. Hopefully one day I can visit a few of these places.

Here are a few items to bake in each section
Breakfast
Angel biscuits “wonderful”
Orange-berry muffins
Gooey Cinnamon rolls
Breads
Lemon-blueberry Drizzle bread
Kitchen Sink Corn bread
Anything goes pizza
Cookies & Bars
Coconut-lime shortbread
Chocolate chip cookies with almonds and orange zest
Cakes & Cupcakes
Apple -whiskey cake
Triple Decker birthday cake “This cake is to die for! I have a very picky daughter that doesn’t like chocolate and she loved this.”
Pies & Tarts
The midnight gazette
Blueberry-almond crisp
Custards & Soufflé’s
Spiced persimmon pudding
Butterscotch custards

Okay, so there you have my opinion. Now, if you excuse me while I go and hunt down my husband for my upcoming birthday present. I’m in need of expanding my cookbook collection, since I only got an ecopy that expires in a few days.

6 people found this helpful

Down Home Meets Classy, Makes a baby: this book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 8, 2013

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I really like this cookbook. Recipes seem easy enough, the ones I've tried have been great and for the most part, I'm interested in all the recipes. There are maybe a handful that don't interest me, but it's based on personal taste not recipe quality. I've tried the Chewy chocolate meringues, Sour Cherry toaster tarts (actually I made them mini because they were for a dessert party and what a hit!!), Super Banana bread, etc. All delicious.
Some other things that I like about the book:
"Bakers Notes" with most recipes this is a little advice area about ingredients, how to change things up a bit, etc. Nice for the rule following baker like me who doesn't understand how to modify or vary recipes (read: cant!).
Following up on that, is the back which lists basic recipes. This is awesome for me because as a very detail oriented/recipe follower, when a cake recipe is given in a book, I get hung up on whether or not I can un-tweak it or not. It lists basic cakes, frostings and glazes, sauces doughs etc.
Also, a standard volume based pan size chart. It's very thorough too, no more searching the internet to see how many pans to convert a square to round cake etc.
The little single-page-length blurbs about the different acclaimed bakeries around the countries are nice touches. I'm glad that the one on Smitten Kitchen is small, I haven't tried that recipe, and it doen't look bad, but even though her website is visually and verbally attractive, the food has consistently fallen short (save for the recipes she lists that are from other sources). I may try it someday when I'm not worried about a kitchen flop.

The Comfort part of the book holds true. The sweets are perfectly sweet, not too much, there is a pleasant mix of savory interspersed and of course cakes, breads, breakfasts, desserts, snacks and the photography is just lovely. Very "down on the farm in Grandmas kitchen with a big cup of fresh milk or steaming coffee."

Now about me: I'm a very good baker. not professional, but very good. Just mentioning this to give some idea of where I come from as a baker. We throw dessert parties at my home just so our friends can get a fix of our (my Hubs helps set up) desserts instead of waiting for birthdays or holidays. So they are sought after.

8 people found this helpful

Delicious Recipes

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 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.

19 people found this helpful

Yummy cookbook!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 11, 2014

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This is a fantastic cookbook and I want to make about every recipe in it. Great easy recipes with her comments about the recipes and easy to follow instructions. The Angel Biscuits are great and as well as the Super Banana Bread. I'm hoping to make the Apple-Whiskey Cake soon. It sounds delicious as do many of the recipes. If you like to bake, here's your go to cookbook!

One person found this helpful

Love this book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2013

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First recipe was the lemon blueberry loaf cake that I found online. Was so good bought the book, used. Saved a bunch as Willisms Sonoma waned $34.95. I got a brand new, non opened, "used" book thought Amazon for $6.95 and $3.99 shipping and handling. Love it even more now! Yum!!

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Mrs B

Fab book!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 29, 2017

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Fabulous book. I had loaned my original copy to a friend who didnt return, so sent off for another. Very good reliable recipes.

Andrea

Libro Home Baked Comfort

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on December 29, 2012

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Gran libro contenente ottime ricette per realizzare diversi piatti al forno. Il prodotto ha tutte le caratteristiche ricercate ed è molto utile per molti spunti culinari.

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Biggy Biggi Stefn

Für Liebhaber des amerik. Backens ein Muss!

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on February 26, 2013

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Viele leckere Rezepte mit metrischen und Cup Mengenangaben. Würde ich wieder kaufen! Home Baked Comfort Muß für Fans des amerikanischen Backens. Besonders die Cookie Rezepte sind toll

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