Creamy cheesecake, sweet fruit pie, spongy layer cake. What’s not to love about baked goods? Making them is a bit of a science, but a dessert recipe book can show you the ropes. Good recipe books break it down with easy-to-follow instructions and photographs that will make your mouth water. If you’re looking for some dessert recipe books that can help you make some delectable creations, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve gathered up ten of the best.
How to Choose a Dessert Recipe Book
When looking for a dessert recipe book, you want to ensure a few things about the recipes. First, you want to ensure that they’re easy to follow and contain all the necessary steps to complete the recipes. You also want to ensure that the recipes include ingredients you can obtain at your local supermarket and are familiar with. Take a few moments to flip through the recipe book before you bring it home. Or, read reviews online to get a feel for what other commenters like or dislike about the cookbook.
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Top 10 Dessert Recipe Books
If you’re looking for some delectable desserts you can whip up at home, you’ve come to the right place. Here are ten amazing dessert recipe books for you to try.
1. BAKE: My Best Ever Recipes for the Classics
BAKE contains Paul Hollywood’s best-ever recipes for cakes, cookies, pastries, pies, and so much more. It includes all the classic dessert recipes you know and love with elegant upgrades that make them even more delicious.
Cost: $24.49
2. Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple
Dorie Greenspan has created a collection of recipes that celebrates the sweet, the savory, and the simple. Created to be accessible, each recipe can be tackled by beginners with everyday ingredients.
Cost: $20.99
3. The Book On Pie: Everything You Need to Know to Bake Perfect Pies
Written by Erin Jeanne McDowell, The New York Times contributing baker, this book distills everything you need to know to make perfect pies. It includes the basics, such as tips on mixing pie dough and expert tips for decorating and styling.
Cost: $18.33
4. Cookies: The New Classics: A Baking Book
Jesse Szewczyk has created this collection of 100 brand-new, sophisticated and approachable recipes. It includes unexpected combinations, such as malted brownie biscotti, chewy blueberry muffin sugar cookies, and so much more.
Cost: $18.69
5. Magnolia Kitchen: Inspired Baking with Personality
Bets of Magnolia Kitchen is celebrated for her artistic cake designs, macarons, doughnuts, brioche, and so much more. Her cookbook shares her journey, packed with recipes you can create at home.
Cost: $29.06
6. Modern Vegan Baking: The Ultimate Resource for Sweet and Savory Baked Goods
For vegan bakers, this collection of over one hundred dairy and egg-free recipes is essential. It includes a mix of must-have classics and newfound creations, all made with vegan ingredients.
Cost: $15.99
7. Sugar, I Love You: A Pastry Chef’s Ode to Sugar in All its Glory
Filled with recipes for cheesecakes, multi-layered, multi-textured cakes, babkas, and so much more, this book from Ravneet Gill makes a big impression. Filled with photographs and detailed recipes, it takes homemade patisserie to the next level.
Cost: $17.19
8. Life Is What You Bake It: Recipes, Stories, and Inspiration to Bake Your Way to the Top
This cookbook includes more than 100 recipes for everything from apple cider fritters to lemon-honey madeleines. Vallery Lomas shares family recipes from her hometown in Louisiana, her time spent in Paris, and her winning stint on The Great American Baking Show.
Cost: $15.59
9. Cheryl Day’s Treasury of Southern Baking
Cheryl Day features over two hundred tried-and-true recipes that celebrate the craft of Southern baking. It includes muffins and scones with a Southern twist, cookies that satisfy your sweet tooth, spectacular layer cakes, and so much more.
Cost: $20.49
10. The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs
For the youngest bakers among us, this cookbook includes 100 sweet recipes little ones can bake, share, and enjoy. It includes recipes that were tested by more than 5,000 kids to ensure they are accessible to bakers of all skill levels.
Cost: $11.09
These dessert cookbooks are so sweet and delicious, you won’t know which recipe to try first. With dozens of delicious baked goods, from fresh-baked cookies to gooey brownies and decadent cupcakes, you’ll have so many delicious recipes to try out. You’ll have to bake your way through each one of them!
