The essence of baking is chemistry, and anyone who wants to be a master pastry chem must understand the principles and science that make baking work. Learn the whys and hows of every chemical reaction, essential ingredient, and technique.

"From the Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen, this comprehensive baking volume features more than 120 recipes for classic and contemporary favorites. Savor a fresh sourdough loaf at the dinner table, a butterscotch-bourbon pie on chilly holiday nights, tangy lemon bars at a summer picnic, or chewy cinnamon-raisin bagels for Sunday brunch. You'll find decorating tutorials, tips on making everything from airy cakes to flaky pie crusts, and a handy guide to...

This book teaches readers not only how to make delectable desserts, but how to keep your family's traditions alive.

"The tastes of childhood have always been a touchstone for Thomas Keller, and in this ... amalgam of American and French baked goods, you'll find recipes for the beloved TKOs and Oh Ohs (Keller's takes on Oreos and Hostess's Ho Hos) and all the French classics he fell in love with as a young chef apprenticing in Paris: the baguettes, the macarons, the mille-feuilles, the tartes aux fruits. Co-author Sebastien Rouxel, executive pastry chef for the...

Dikla Frances outlines the essential components of baking-- texture, ratio, temperature, stabilizing ingredients and moistening ingredients--and shows readers how to combine them to create the perfect versions of any baked good they want, including cakes, pies, breads, breakfast bakes, cookies, etc.

Follow twelve amateur bakers as they don aprons and head for the tent in the British countryside, hoping to be named Britain's best. Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood create challenges to test their baking prowess, creativity, and skill. Joined by hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, they search for the best all-around baker among the contestants.

"A simple, stylish cookbook full of desserts that come together faster than you can eat them-from the New York Times bestselling author of Dining In and Nothing Fancy. Casual, effortless, chic: These are not words you'd use to describe most desserts. But before Alison Roman made recipes so perfect that they go by one name-The Cookie, The Pasta, The Lemon Cake-she was a restaurant pastry chef who spent most of her time learning to make things the hard...