Elizabeth Alston's Best Baking

by Alston, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780060953294
• ISBN10: 0060953292
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-13
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Indulge your sweet tooth with eighty of Elizabeth Alston's most beloved and delicious baking recipes. A compilation of her popular Tea Breads and Coffeecakes and Simply Cakes, Best Baking features such delectable delights as Brown Sugar--Brown Butter--Hazelnut Pound Cake, Tennessee Whiskey Cake, Plum-Walnut Kuchen, and Chocolate Orange Crumb Cake, as well as tempting toppings and sauces to accompany these treats. Alston's helpful tips will guide every baker, from the novice to the professional, and make home baking fun and easy. You'll be getting rave reviews in no time! So whether it's for breakfast, afternoon tea, dessert, or a midnight snack, you'll find the perfect recipe in Elizabeth Alston's Best Baking.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Alston is the executive food editor at Woman's Day and the author of numerous cookbooks. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
How to Follow a Recipe
Measuring Ingredients	p. xv
Notes on Equipment	p. xvi
Mixing Ingredients	p. xviii
Notes on Baking	p. xix
Storing	p. xxii
Cutting Cakes	p. xxiii
Baking Amid Chaos	p. xxiii
Notes on Ingredients	p. xxiv
Breakfast Breads
Spicy Upside-Down Sausage Corn Bread	p. 2
Whole-Wheat Date-and-Nut Bread	p. 4
Applesauce-Oatmeal Raisin Cake	p. 6
Whole-Wheat Carrot-Apple Honey Cake	p. 7
Applesauce--Brown Sugar Bread	p. 8
Prune--Oat Bran Bread	p. 10
Breakfast Fruit-and-Nut Bread	p. 12
Milo O'Sullivan's Irish Soda Bread	p. 14
Coffee Cakes
Pecan Streusel Coffee Cake	p. 18
Plum Cobbler Cake	p. 20
Loads-of-Blueberries Coffee Cake	p. 21
Simple Sour Cream Spice Cake	p. 22
Cinnamon-Raisin Coffee Cake	p. 24
Oatmeal Streusel Coffee Cake	p. 26
Chocolate-Marbled Sour Cream Cake	p. 28
Sour-Cherry Almond Crunch Cake	p. 30
Spicy Prune Cake	p. 32
Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake	p. 34
Tea Breads
Intense Chocolate Tea Bread	p. 38
Orange--Sour Cream Loaf	p. 40
Dried Pear, Anise, and Walnut Tea Bread	p. 42
Molasses Ginger Cake	p. 44
Quince Ginger Cake	p. 45
Gretchen's Cranberry-Apple Cake	p. 46
Sweet Marsala--Rosemary Cornmeal Cake	p. 48
Chocolate-Orange Crumb Cake	p. 50
Newmarket Cake	p. 52
Armagnac, Prune, and Walnut Tea Bread	p. 54
Brandied Currant Tea Bread	p. 56
Sunflower-Seed Tea Bread	p. 58
Brown-Rice and Nut Tea Bread	p. 59
Kuchen
Blueberry-Raspberry Kuchen	p. 62
Plum-Walnut Kuchen	p. 64
Swedish Apple--Almond Kuchen	p. 66
Pear--Almond Kuchen	p. 67
Sour Cherry--Almond Kuchen	p. 67
Vanilla--Pear Custard Kuchen	p. 68
Vanilla--Apple Custard Kuchen	p. 69
Lemony Apple Kuchen	p. 70
Harvest Tart	p. 72
Peaches-and-Cream Kuchen	p. 74
Angel Food Cakes
Brown Sugar Angel Food Cake	p. 80
Spicy Brown Sugar Angel Food Cake	p. 81
Fresh Raspberry Angel Food Cake	p. 82
Caramel-Coffee Angel Food Cake	p. 84
Apricot Angel Food Cake	p. 86
Fresh Ginger--Brown Sugar Angel Food Cake	p. 88
Whole White Wheat--Brown Sugar Angel Food Cake	p. 90
Lemon-Vanilla Angel Food Cake	p. 92
Hazelnut-Chocolate Angel Food Cake	p. 94
Cappuccino Angel Food Cake	p. 96
Peppermint Stick Angel Food Cake	p. 98
Chocolate-Mint Angel Food Cake	p. 99
Pound Cakes
Sour Cream and Walnut Spice Cake	p. 104
Sour Cream--Chocolate Chip Pound Cake	p. 106
Miriam's Sour Cream Pound Cake	p. 108
Hazelnut Pound Cake	p. 110
Caraway Seed Cake	p. 112
Tennessee Whiskey Cake	p. 114
Triple-Ginger Pound Cake	p. 116
Walnut--Poppy Seed Pound Cake	p. 118
Soaked Orange Pound Cake	p. 120
Orange--Chocolate Chunk Pound Cake	p. 122
Pumpkin Pound Cake	p. 124
Raisin-Pumpkin Pound Cake	p. 125
Vanilla-Bean Vanilla Cake	p. 126
Brown Sugar--Brown Butter--Hazelnut Pound Cake	p. 128
Toasted Coconut and Almond Pound Cake	p. 130
Pistachio-Ginger Pound Cake	p. 132
Festive Pound Cake	p. 134
Lemon-Mace Pound Cake	p. 136
Shirley Sarvis's Florentine Loaf	p. 138
Chiffon Cakes
Orange and Lemon Chiffon Cake	p. 142
Chocolate-Orange Chiffon Cake	p. 144
Chiffon Spice Cake	p. 146
Walnut-Date Chiffon Cake	p. 148
Kumquat-Almond Chiffon Cake	p. 150
Coffee-Hazelnut Honey Cake	p. 152
Mocha Chiffon Cake	p. 154
New York Carrot Cake	p. 156
Toppings and Sauces for Cakes
Chocolate Whipped Cream	p. 160
Mocha Whipped Cream	p. 160
Nutmeg-Honey Whipped Cream	p. 161
Pineapple--Golden Raisin Sauce	p. 162
Raspberry-Blueberry Sauce	p. 163
Plum Sauce	p. 164
Caramel Apples	p. 165
Superb Chocolate Sauce	p. 166
Index	p. 167
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