Best Home Baking Essentials - Short & Sweet Recipes for Cookies, Cakes & Pies | Perfect for Family Baking Nights & Holiday Treats

I purchased this as a birthday present (along with All About Braising by Molly Stevens) for a co-worker who is fairly passionate about cooking but is still learning and expanding her core repertoire of recipes. After thumbing through it, I bought one for myself as well. It is a great overview of baking with recipes from breads to sweets and so many things in between. As with the braising cookbook, this baking one teaches you methods and techniques as well as recipes, thus making you better able to put your own spin on these recipes by adding ingredients you have on hand or that suit your own tastes. It is definitely going on the bookshelf close to the kitchen and many of the recipes are going to become new family favorites, I can already tell.