Food52 Works Baking: 60 Sensational Treats You Can Pull Off in a Snap

244 Pages·2015·16.78 MB·English

Whether it’s the chocolate cake at every childhood birthday,
blondies waiting for you after school, or hot dinner rolls
smeared with butter at Thanksgiving dinner, homemade
baked goods hold a place in many of our best memories. And
that’s why baking shouldn’t be reserved for special
occasions.
With this book, curated by the editors of Food52, you can have
homemade treats far superior to the store-bought variety, even when it
feels like you’re too busy to turn on the oven. From Brown Butter
Cupcake Brownies to “Cuppa Cuppa Sticka” Peach and Blueberry
Cobbler, these sixty reliable, easy-to-execute recipes won’t have you
hunting down special
equipment and hard-to-find ingredients or leave you with a kitchen covered
in flour and a sink piled high with bowls. They’re not ordinary or ho-hum,
either: ingredients you’ve baked with before
(and some you haven’t—like black sesame, coconut oil, and lavender) come
together to create new favorites like Baked Cardamom French Toast
and Olive Oil and Sesame Crackers. Filled with generations’ worth of
kitchen wisdom, beautiful photography, and tips you’ll return to, Baking is
the new go-to collection for anyone who wants to whip up something sweet
every day.

Copyright © 2015 by Food52 Inc.
Photographs copyright © 2015 by James Ransom All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a
division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.
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Hesser, Amanda, author.
Food52 baking : 60 sensational treats you can pull off in a snap / by the editors of Food52 ;
photography by James Ransom. — First edition.
pages cm.
Summary: “A stunning collection of hassle-free recipes for baking cakes, cookies, tarts, puddings,
muffins, bread, and more, from the editors behind the leading food website Food52. This next book
in the Food52 Works series features 60 baking recipes that won’t leave you with an entire kitchen
covered in flour or every bowl—dirty—in the sink. Tempting, foolproof recipes like Brown Butter
Cupcake Brownies, Peach Tart, and Black Pepper Popovers are approachable enough to turn to on
weekday evenings (when there is little time or patience to fuss over buttercream or pie dough), don’t
call for special equipment or obscure imported ingredients, and certainly aren’t run-of-the-mill.
Exquisitely photographed and with ample variations and “baking confidence” tips, this is the new go-
to collection for anyone who wants to incorporate something sweet into their every day”—Provided by
publisher.
Includes index.
1. Baking. I. Food52. II. Title. III. Title: Baking.
TX763.H49 2015
641.81'5—dc23
2015027663
Hardcover ISBN 9781607748014
eBook ISBN 9781607748021
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Contents
Foreword by Amanda Hesser & Merrill Stubbs
Introduction
Baking Basics
BREAKFAST GOODS
Featherweight Blueberry Scones
Baked Cardamom French Toast with Syrupy Meyer Lemons
Yogurt Biscuits
Cranberry, Oatmeal, and Flaxseed Muffins
Whole Wheat Molasses Yogurt Bread with Figs and Walnuts
Bestest Banana Bread
Buttermilk Dutch Baby with Caramelized Pears
Overnight Orange Refrigerator Rolls
Tomato and Cream Cheese Turnovers
COOKIES & BARS
Cream Cheese Cookies
Italian Cornmeal Cookies
Cardamom Currant Snickerdoodles
Grape-Nut and Chocolate Chip Kitchen Sink Oatmeal Cookies
Six-Ingredient Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Cookies
Dark Chocolate and Cherry Mandelbrot
Brown Sugar Shortbread
Balsamic Macaroons with Chocolate Chips
Hippie Crispy Treats
Double-Layer Coconut Pecan Bars
Oatmeal Streusel Bars with Rhubarb Filling
Magic Espresso Brownies
FRUIT DESSERTS
Blueberry Schlumpf
Nectarine Slump
Apple Brown Betty with Gingersnap Crumbs
Almond Butter and Oatmeal Crisp
Blueberry Cream Torte
Summer Fruit Galette
Peach Tart
“Cuppa Cuppa Sticka” Peach and Blueberry Cobbler
CUSTARDY CAKES & PUDDINGS
Challah Bread Pudding “Soufflé”
Raspberry Clafoutis
Pudding Chômeur
Baked Rice Pudding with Coconut Milk and Honey
Lemon Sponge Cups
Sour Cream Cheesecake with Chocolate Cookie Crust
Coconut Tres Leches Cake
EVERYDAY CAKES
Strawberry-Yogurt Snack Cake
Easy-as-Pie Apple Cake
Cold-Oven Pound Cake
Honey Pecan Cake
Spiced Parsnip Cake
Chocolate Dump-It Cake
Tomato Soup Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
SPECIAL OCCASION CAKES
Brown Butter Cupcake Brownies
Maple Persimmon Upside-Down Cake with Maple Cream
Tender Yellow Cake with Bittersweet Chocolate Frosting
Cherry Almond Crumb Cake
Black Sesame Cupcakes with Matcha Buttercream
Olive Oil Ricotta Cake with Plums
Skillet Spice Cake with Gooey Caramel Bottom
Gluten-Free Lemon Blackberry Corn Cake
Banana Cake with Penuche Frosting
Pumpkin Pie Crumble