Baking: 300 Recipes, 2000 Photographs, One Baking Education by James Peterson

  • Basic French sponge cake (Genoise)

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    • Categories: Cakes, large; Dessert; French
    • Ingredients: cake flour; eggs; sugar
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  • Carrot cake

    • nicolthepickle on November 14, 2014

      I love this recipe. It's my favourite carrot cake. It's not a very large cake though.

    • KissTheCook on October 30, 2018

      I plan to use this recipe next, as I substituted his spice variety in another recipe resulting in great flavor, but that cake fell in the middle. His quantities are 1/2 other recipes. I will double his, but take care to keep batter/pan ratio intact and bake a little longer, covering with aluminum foil end of bake time if browning too much. These type cakes, like banana bread, taste better made a day or two ahead to "cure", if you can find the time.

  • Pita bread

    • twoyolks on May 16, 2013

      These did not puff up at all and instead became dry and covertly crisp. The instructions in the recipe are not clear as the text says to put the dough on cold baking sheets and then place them in the whereas the caption to one of the pictures refers to placing the dough on hot baking sheets.

  • Popovers

    • twoyolks on January 19, 2014

      The popovers did rise greatly. However, they had very little flavor in themselves other than the burned oil that was added to grease the pan (which then, per the recipe instructions, was returned to the oven for a minute).

  • Professional-style buttercream

    • nicolthepickle on November 14, 2014

      The weight and amount of butter in this recipe are not the same. I use the larger amount. It's an editing mistake.

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Reviews about this book

  • Fine Cooking

    Whether you’re a novice or an old hand, this lavishly illustrated baking manual...provides all the principles, techniques, & step-by-step visuals you need to nail every recipe...on the very first try.

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  • ISBN 10 1580089917
  • ISBN 13 9781580089913
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  • Published Sep 01 2009
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 416
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Ten Speed Press
  • Imprint Ten Speed Press

Publishers Text

James Peterson is the premiere go-to source for home cooks of every level. His newest book and the second in a series of instructional tomes, Baking teaches all the essential basics--how to make fail-proof tender pie dough, a fabulous birthday cake, sourdough starter that actually works, legendary babka, and more. In more than 300 recipes, each accompanied by handy instructional photos, Peterson guides readers through the techniques for creating perfect breads, cakes, cookies, pies, and pastries, each and every time with confidence. Readers working their way through the book will learn every fundamental of baking, and discover the recipes and nuances that ensure consistent, impressive results.

  • The definitive, highly illustrated, step-by-step instructional for making the best-loved basics plus new and fresh versions of pies, tarts, cakes, cookies, pastries, and breads.
  • Sequel to Cooking, which won the 2008 James Beard Award for best general cookbook.
  • The most thorough step-by-step visual guide to baking all the favorites.
  • Every recipe is illustrated with sequential how-to photographs.

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