The All-American Dessert Book by Nancy Baggett

  • Favorite deep-dish apple pie (page 18)

    from The All-American Dessert Book The All-American Dessert Book by Nancy Baggett

    • Categories: Pies, tarts & pastries; Dessert; American
    • Ingredients: cake flour; ground cinnamon; cornstarch; apples; vegetable shortening; unsalted butter; all-purpose flour; lemons; granulated sugar; light brown sugar; milk
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  • American caramel frosting

    • PatriciaScarpin on April 25, 2011

      What an awful recipe. The frosting is absurdly sweet - tooth-aching doesn't even begin to describe it. I had to throw it all away and make a simple chocolate fudgy icing for my banana cake.

  • Banana cake

    • PatriciaScarpin on June 22, 2011

      A hit with my coworkers. The cake is moist and has a strong banana flavor. I iced it with chocolate frosting. http://technicolorkitcheninenglish.blogspot.com/2011/05/banana-sheet-cake-with-fudgy-chocolate.html

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  • ISBN 10 0618240004
  • ISBN 13 9780618240005
  • Published Oct 01 2005
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin
  • Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Publishers Text

America's favorite baker, Nancy Baggett, has been on a road trip around the country. Now she's back, with something for every dessert lover: the best pies, cakes, puddings, crisps, cookies, ice creams, and candies in the land. Many of her discoveries were locally famous family secrets - until now.


They include a memorably simple blueberry buckle from a Vermont bed-and-breakfast; a coconut chiffon cake from an island off the coast of Virginia that has become a "destination dessert"; a never-before-revealed recipe for chocolate-dipped caramel candies, the fund-raising specialty of the women of an Episcopal church in New Mexico; and a sublime peach cobbler from a cook in the Ozarks.


Baggett has tested and retested every recipe in her home kitchen to ensure that all cooks get the same results. She has even included a chapter on easy gifts to make with children, from "bars in a jar" (a homemade brownie mix) to fancifully decorated graham-cracker holiday cottages.


Every recipe in this lavishly photographed book comes with an intriguing bite of history, a witty anecdote, or a little-known fact. Together they tell the story of America.

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