Big Book of Bread or Sweet Celebrations

Big Book of Bread: 365 Delicious Recipes for Bread Machines and Home-Baking

Author: Anne Sheasby

Bread is a staple of the Western diet, yet all too often families rely on store-bought loaves that lack both taste and nutritional value. Happily, good bread is surprisingly easy to make, and bread machines simplify the task even further. With a healthy and inspiring recipe for each day of the year, The Big Book of Bread brings excitement -- and nutrients -- back to bread. Organized into eight sections (bread basics, everyday bread and rolls, specialty and festive breads, flat breads, quick breads, bread machine recipes, gluten-free breads, and bread dishes), the book features diverse -- and tasty -- culinary traditions, from staples like Indian naan and Scottish oatcakes to treats such as panettone and Greek Easter Bread. An authoritative introduction explains the basics of bread making and includes advice on equipment and ingredients as well as tips for crafting the perfect loaf. Dozens of luscious color photos add further inspiration.

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Sweet Celebrations: The Art of Decorating Beautiful Cakes

Author: Sylvia J Weinstock

In Sweet Celebrations the woman InStyle called "New York's reigning cake diva" shares her recipes, designs, techniques, and tips in a gloriously illustrated book.

Bon Appétit called master baker and decorator Weinstock "the Leonardo da Vinci of wedding cakes," and her stunningly original creations have graced the celebrations of Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, and Whitney Houston. Her repertoire includes not just grand, romantic, floral wedding cakes but cakes appropriate for all of life's festive moments. Now she shares her expertise with bakers who want the perfect cake to commemorate that very special occasion.

Sweet Celebrations includes cakes for birthdays, anniversaries, bon voyage send-offs, victory parties, and more. Graded according to difficulty, there are cakes for the beginning as well as the experienced decorator. Present your favorite graduate with a richly bound pile of books, welcome a newborn with a delectable stack of pastel-colored blocks, or serve the charming cottage cake at a housewarming. Each of the featured twenty-four cakes is shown in full color, with complete step-by-step instructions for baking, assembling, and decorating. In addition there are many inspiring photographs of the fabulous cakes Weinstock has created for clients around the world.

The book provides recipes for cakes, frostings, and fillings, as well as detailed illustrated instructions on decorating techniques. Sweet Celebrations is a must-have volume for home and professional bakers who want to make and serve cakes that taste as good as they look.

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Weinstock is famous in New York City for her wedding cakes, and her book, though ostensibly meant a how-to, is really meant for browsing—make that gasping—at page after page of fantasy cakes. There are Dutch still lifes brimming with marzipan fruit; tiered wonders with masses of frosting-spun roses and violets spilling down the sides; poodle cakes, purse cakes, even cakes shaped like wrapped gifts.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Preface Introduction

Basic Guidance

Equipment Resource Guide About Cakes Crumb Coating

Basic Cake Recipes

Classic Yellow Cake Lady Baltimore White Cake Spice Cake Chocolate Fudge Cake Carrot Cake Almond Cake Hazelnut Cake

Icings, Fillings, and Washes

Basic Buttercream Icing Chocolate Buttercream Icing Basic Buttercream Filling Flavored Buttercream Fillings

Cream Cheese Buttercream Filling Chocolate Buttercream Filling Mocha Buttercream Filling Orange Buttercream Filling Lemon Buttercream Filling Raspberry Buttercream Filling

Chocolate Mousse Filling Royal Icing Washes: Simple Syrup

Working with Sugar Dough

Coloring Handling Sugar Dough Storing flowers Equipment

Basic Flower Instructions

Spray Flowers Pansy Iris Violet Calla Lily Roses

To make the buds To make the petals To make a calyx

Additional Decorations

Ribbons Bows Loop Bows

Piping Techniques

Basketweave Nantucket Weave Cornelli Dotted Swiss, Pearls, Writing Leaves Dragging Pearl Border

Looping m or u

Lily of the Valley Swags

Specialty Cakes

Antique White Tiered Wedding Cake Baby Block Cake Balloon Cake Box Wedding Cake Cornelli Heart Cake Calla Lily Cake Fairy Tree Cake Gift Box Cake Hatbox Cake Lily of the Valley Cake Marzipan Fruit Cake Peach Rose Wedding Cake Potted Iris Cake Ribbon Cake Shaggy Dog Cake Handbag Cake Shopping Bag Cake Stack of Books Cake Straw Hat Cake Sunflower Cake Teacup Cake Thatched Roof Cottage Cake

Round Cakes

Clown Cake Basketball Cake Globe Cake Index Metric Equivalencies