The Lost Art of Baking with Yeast: Delicious Hungarian Cakes and Pastries by Baba Schwartz

$34.99 AUD

Category: Baking

For a long time baking with yeast fell out of popularity with home cooks, but recently there has been a revival in traditional baking. Many home bakers would love to use the incredible properties of yeast but feel daunted. The Lost Art of Baking with Yeast shows how simple baking with yeast, and how irr esistible the results, can be. Baba Schwartz introduces the principles of yeast baking and gives handy hints for kneading and proving dough to perfection. The book includes recipes for cakes, slices, pastries and buns - and Baba's famous golden dumpling cake. These recipes, with their distinctive Hungarian flavour, will delight your family and friends. If you love baking, you will love discovering these recipes, some unique and some classic. With an updated introduction from Baba's granddaughter, this hardback edition of The Lost Art of Baking with Yeast will inform and inspire a new generation of bakers. ...Show more

Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza (HB) by Ken Forkish

$59.99 AUD

Category: Baking

From Portland's most acclaimed and beloved baker comes this must-have baking guide, featuring recipes for world-class breads and pizzas and a variety of schedules suited for the home baker.   There are few things more satisfying than biting into a freshly made, crispy-on-the-outside, soft-and-supple-o n-the-inside slice of perfectly baked bread. For Portland-based baker Ken Forkish, well-made bread is more than just a pleasure--it is a passion that has led him to create some of the best and most critically lauded breads and pizzas in the country.   In Flour Water Salt Yeast, Forkish translates his obsessively honed craft into scores of recipes for rustic boules and Neapolitan-style pizzas, all suited for the home baker. Forkish developed and tested all of the recipes in his home oven, and his impeccable formulas and clear instructions result in top-quality artisan breads and pizzas that stand up against those sold in the best bakeries anywhere.   Whether you're a total beginner or a serious baker, Flour Water Salt Yeast has a recipe that suits your skill level and time constraints: Start with a straight dough and have fresh bread ready by supper time, or explore pre-ferments with a bread that uses biga or poolish. If you're ready to take your baking to the next level, follow Forkish's step-by-step guide to making a levain starter with only flour and water, and be amazed by the delicious complexity of your naturally leavened bread. Pizza lovers can experiment with a variety of doughs and sauces to create the perfect pie using either a pizza stone or a cast-iron skillet.   Flour Water Salt Yeast is more than just a collection of recipes for amazing bread and pizza--it offers a complete baking education, with a thorough yet accessible explanation of the tools and techniques that set artisan bread apart. Featuring a tutorial on baker's percentages, advice for manipulating ingredients ratios to create custom doughs, tips for adapting bread baking schedules to fit your day-to-day life, and an entire chapter that demystifies the levain-making process, Flour Water Salt Yeast is an indispensable resource for bakers who want to make their daily bread exceptional bread. ...Show more

Now for Something Sweet (Monday Morning Cooking Club #4) by Monday Morning Cooking Club

$49.99 AUD

Category: Baking

The irrepressible, unstoppable women of the Monday Morning Cooking Club are back, with the very best, most delicious sweet recipes curated and perfected from Jewish homes across Australia and the world. 'We are always dreaming of soft, airy, pale chiffon cake, thinking about chocolate-swirled, glossy ye asted bake, imagining flaky chewy  jammy strudel, baking almond-studded citrus-glazed Dutch buns, frying golden syrup-drenched coiled fishuelas, biting into hot sugared jam-filled doughnuts, eating crisp-shelled marshmallowy vanilla-flecked meringues, feasting on sticky steaming sweet butterscotch pudding and sharing it all with abundance and love...' The Monday Morning Cooking Club have been on a mission: to uncover, curate, honour and celebrate the very best, treasured, and most delicious sweet recipes from the Jewish community in Australia and from around the world. Alongside these precious recipes, they tell heart-warming and poignant stories of survival, loss, love, family and community. ...Show more

Mary Berry Cooks to Perfection by Mary Berry

$39.99 AUD

Category: Baking

Cook over 100 recipes to absolute perfection with guidance from Mary Berry. For each recipe Mary identifies the crucial techniques that guarantee perfect results and gives easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographic instructions. Wondering exactly how to cook salmon so that it melts in your mouth, how to cook a steak to the perfect shade of pink, or how to bake a cake that's both springy and moist? With Mary Berry's no-nonsense, tried-and-true instructions, every dish you cook can be absolutely perfect. ...Show more

Magnolia Kitchen Design by Bernadette Gee

$49.99 AUD

Category: Baking

After the huge worldwide success of her first book, Magnolia Kitchen, Bets Gee brings us the spectacular Magnolia Kitchen Design focusing on the design elements of her incredible cakes.

The Sourdough School: The ground-breaking guide to making gut-friendly bread by Vanessa Kimbell

$49.99 AUD

Category: Baking

'Master the art of sourdough with Vanessa and you will learn how to look after your own gut microbes and health.' - Tim Spector, author of The Diet Myth At her renowned Sourdough School, Vanessa has taught countless students the secrets of this healthy, more easily digestible bread, and now she has com piled her teachings for the home baker. From creating your own starter from scratch, you'll then move on to basic breadmaking techniques, before progressing to using sprouted grains and experimenting with flavours to produce Fig and Earl Grey and Cherry Plum loaves. With step-by-step photography, detailed instructions, specialist advice and Vanessa's indispensable encouragement, The Sourdough School celebrates the timeless craft of artisan baking. ...Show more

Beatrix Bakes by Natalie Paull

$45.00 AUD

Category: Baking

For Natalie Paull, baking is a gift. It's also a powerful elixir of pleasure, connection, generosity and joy. In Beatrix Bakes, Natalie indulges in baking's sweetest moments with more than seventy recipes inspiring bakers of all kinds to mix and match to make recipes their own - whether it's a Lemon cur d cream crepe cake or Pecan maple cinnamon scrolls.   Sparkling with Natalie's distinct voice, and packaged with full-colour photography, illustrations and rock-solid tips for a perfect bake, Beatrix Bakes also includes 'Adaptrix' suggestions (offering ways readers might do things differently, including short cuts) and is peppered with infographics to help them follow their baking heart. Try The Cheesecake (That You Will Love The Most) with a crumb base, or a bought biscuit base, or no base, or a sponge base, or even a failed cookie base! And from there, pick a topping from sour cream, to crumb, to fruity bits. The recipes are divided across eight chapters: Doughs, pastries & crusts; Tarts, pies, a crostata & a galette; The cake list; One in the hand; Yeasted bakes; Fruit-full; Creams, custards, fillings, glazes and buttercreams; and Finishing touches.   While Natalie's creations are inspired by classics the world over, they are irreverent too, and in Beatrix Bakes she delights in showing readers that - once they get the foundations right - the truest magic will come from a willingness to play (with the insurance of her many clever ideas and back-up plans in their apron pocket!).   Beatrix Bakes will guide anyone who loves the adventure of baking to perfect their skills and break the baking mould.       ...Show more

Beautiful Cakes by The Australian Women's Weekly

$39.99 AUD

Category: Baking

AWW The Pie Maker Vol. 1 by The Australian Women's Weekly

$24.99 AUD

Category: Baking

Who knew the humble pie maker would become a social media phenomenon! Embracing the trend that's taken Australia by storm, this book celebrates all things pastry pies as well as a host of clever creations you'd never expect. You'll love these inspired recipes for mac and cheese bites, muffins, scones, b acon and eggs, fritters, pancakes and so much more. All quick and easy to make, they take no time at all to cook - perfect for the whole family. ...Show more

Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence by Claire Saffitz

$61.99 AUD

Category: Baking

In her first cookbook, Bon Appétit and YouTube star of the show Gourmet Makes offers wisdom, problem-solving strategies, and more than 100 meticulously tested, creative, and inspiring recipes. Claire Saffitz is a baking hero for a new generation. In Dessert Person, fans will find Claire's signature spi n on sweet and savory recipes like Babkallah (a babka-Challah mashup), Apple and Concord Grape Crumble Pie, Strawberry-Cornmeal Layer Cake, Crispy Mushroom Galette, and Malted Forever Brownies. She outlines the problems and solutions for each recipe--like what to do if your pie dough for Sour Cherry Pie cracks (patch it with dough or a quiche flour paste!)--as well as practical do's and don'ts, skill level, prep and bake time, and foundational know-how. With Claire at your side, everyone can be a dessert person. ...Show more

Wholefood Baking: Wholesome Ingredients for Delicious Results by Jude Blereau

$39.99 AUD

Category: Baking

Jude's Blereau's Wholefood Baking includes more than 120 tried and true recipes for cakes, scones, biscuits and pastries as well as delectable creams, icings and jams, many of which are gluten-, nut- and dairy-free and use whole and semi-refined flours and sugars.Together with advice on how to convert y our favourite recipes using whole ingredients, Wholefood Baking is a must for those who want their baked goods to heal, nourish and delight. ...Show more

The Ultimate Book of Chocolate: Make Your Chocolate Dreams Become a Reality by Melanie Dupuis

$59.99 AUD

Category: Baking

In The Ultimate Book of Chocolate trained pastry chef Melanie Dupuis will teach you how to make your chocolate dreams become a reality. Learn how to temper, mould and decorate like a pro with the complete guide to everything chocolate. Starting with the basics, Melanie will take you through all the diff erent varieties of chocolate you will be working as all the other basic ingredients required. She then explains in detail, accompanied with step-by-step pictures, all the various techniques in the book, from tempering to making ganache, chocolate mousse, creme anglaise, biscuit bases, meringue and more. The main recipes include every chocolate dessert you could ever imagine, plus more, from caramel bonbons and millionaire'sshortbread to Easter eggs, truffles, macarons, cakes, Swiss rolls, eclairs and more: this truly is a chocoaholic's dream book! With step-by-step photographs and beautiful illustrations, this is a masterclass in making chocolate desserts, from an expert pastry chef. This stunning, large volume with delight anyone with a sweet tooth, or any home cook who wants to take their dessert skills to the next level.   ...Show more