Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple

Dorie Greenspan

Oct 2021 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

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From James Beard Award-winning and NYT best-selling author Dorie Greenspan, a baking book of more than 150 exciting recipes

Say “Dorie Greenspan” and think baking. The renowned author of thirteen cookbooks and winner of five James Beard and two IACP awards offers a collection that celebrates the sweet, the savory, and the simple. Every recipe is signature Dorie: easy—beginners can ace every technique in this book—and accessible, made with everyday ingredients. Are there surprises? Of course! You’ll find ingenious twists like Berry Biscuits. Footlong cheese sticks made with cream puff dough. Apple pie with browned butter spiced like warm mulled cider. A s’mores ice cream cake with velvety chocolate sauce, salty peanuts, and toasted marshmallows. It’s a book of simple yet sophisticated baking. The chapters are classic: Breakfast Stuff • Cakes • Cookies • Pies, Tarts, Cobblers and Crisps • Two Perfect Little Pastries • Salty Side Up. The recipes are unexpected. And there are “Sweethearts” throughout, mini collections of Dorie’s all-time favorites. Don’t miss the meringue Little Marvels or the Double-Decker Caramel Cake. Like all of Dorie’s recipes, they lend themselves to being remade, refashioned, and riffed on.

Ratings and reviews

If you love to bake, want to try to bake or are a cookbook collector, this book is a must. Let's start with the fact that this book is just visually stunning, This book is filled with bright and beautiful photos that will have your fingers twitching to get into the kitchen to satisfy the intense cravings that you are going to be bombarded with. I can't say that every recipe has a pictured but I will say that most do. I loved that this book keeps the instructions and ingredient list simple. I really feel that even a novice baker will have no issues with following and understanding the recipes. The ingredients used are mainly what I would classify as standard staples and if you do come across something you don't have, you should be able to find it just about anywhere. An excellent variety of recipes is included that offer the basics (white bread, chocolate chip cookies and biscuits) to the more unique (Swedish Fika Cake and Glenorchy Flapjacks) add in a solid selection of some savory delights and some helpful info and you have a winning combination that easily earns a spot on your shelf. A perfect treat for yourself or a great gift idea. This is my independent, impartial review.

I love cookbooks and I was interested in some of the desserts. I will probably not make most of these, but they sure look delicious! Worth a read for anyone interested in baking.

About the author

Inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America, DORIE GREENSPAN is the author of 14 cookbooks, including Baking with Dorie; Dorie's Cookies, a 2017 James Beard Award-winner for Best Baking and Dessert book; Around My French Table, a New York Times bestseller that wasnamed Cookbook of the Year by the IACP; Baking Chez Moi, also a Times bestseller; and Baking: From My Home to Yours, a James Beard Award winner. She lives in New York City, Westbrook, Connecticut, and Paris.