Home Baked Comfort (Williams-Sonoma) Featuring Mouthwatering Recipes and Tales of the Sweet Life with Favorites from Bakers Across the Country

by Laidlaw, Kim

• ISBN13: 9781616282004
• ISBN10: 1616282002
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-07
• Publisher: Weldon Owen

Summary

This gorgeous new baking book contains beloved classics and contemporary treats, from passionate baker and food editor Kim Laidlaw and America's most revered bakeries and bloggers. Stunning, full-color photographs throughout bring it all to life. A mixture of nostalgia and fun, it is directed at both experienced bakers or anyone who might be curious about baking; there's something here for everyone. Favorites like caramel whoopie pies, sour cherry ;toaster ; tarts, deep dark chocolate cupcakes stuffed with marshmallow cream and glazed with ganache, and gooey s'mores brownies will take the reader back to childhood. Modern twists on classic comfort foods such as brown butter pound cake with fresh fig compote, flaky rhubarb turnovers, and crÈme brulee with caramelized blood oranges; and old family favorites like maple pumpkin pie, brown-sugar banana bread, and chocolate crinkle cookies will entice and inspire anyone to get in the kitchen and start baking. Featured bakeries: Baked (Brooklyn, NY) Floriole CafÉ & Bakery (Chicago, IL) Flour Bakery + CafÉ (Boston, MA) Huckleberry CafÉ & Bakery (Santa Monica, CA) Pearl Bakery (Portland, OR) Salty Tart Bakery (Minneapolis, MN) Sugar Mama's Bakeshop (Austin, TX) Tartine Bakery (San Francisco, CA) Featured blogs: Bakerella Cannelle Et Vanille La Tartine Gourmande Smitten Kitchen

Author Biography

Kim Laidlaw is a cookbook editor, food writer, and baker who has been in the kitchen covered in flour since she was big enough to stir the biscuit dough. She has worked in the cookbook world for over nine years and was the first blogger on KQED’s popular Bay Area Bites blog, which launched in 2005. Kim previously worked as a professional baker at La Farine French Bakery in Oakland, CA. She lives with her husband in San Francisco, CA.