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Cook's Illustrated Baking Book Kindle Edition

by America's Test Kitchen (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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Baking demystified with 450 foolproof recipes from Cook's Illustrated, America's most trusted food magazine.

The Cook’s Illustrated Baking Book has it all—definitive recipes for all your favorite cookies, cakes, pies, tarts, breads, pizza, and more, along with kitchen-tested techniques that will transform your baking. Recipes range from easy (drop cookies and no-knead bread) to more ambitious (authentic croissants and dacquoise) and the trademark test kitchen expertise shines through each one. Discover why spreading the dough and then sprinkling the berries leads to better Blueberry Scones, why cubed versus shredded extra-sharp cheddar cheese makes all the difference in our irresistible Cheese Bread, how we found three ways to squeeze more lemon flavor into our Lemon Bundt Cake, and how to keep the best Buttermilk Waffles your family will ever taste warm and crispy. 

An illustrated Baking Basics chapter at the front of the book provides information on key ingredients and equipment and lays the groundwork for a lifetime of baking success. A shopping guide at the back recommends our favorite brands.   The recipes in this book represent all the wisdom of the bakers that came before us as well as all we've learned through literally thousands of trial-and-error sessions in our kitchens.
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"Like Cook's Illustrated, and the magazine's TV spin-off, America's Test Kitchen, this book is a comprehensive, no-nonsense guide … a well-thought-out, clearly explained primer for every aspect of home baking." -The Wall Street Journal

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Cook’s Illustrated is a widely renowned America’s Test Kitchen brand that is the work of over 60 passionate chefs based in Boston, Massachusetts, who put ingredients, cookware, equipment, and recipes through objective, rigorous testing to identify the very best. America’s Test Kitchen brands are well-known for top-rated television shows with more than 4 million weekly public television viewers, bestselling cookbooks, magazines, websites, and a cooking school. Discover, learn, and expand your cooking repertoire with Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Jack Bishop, Dan Souza, Lisa McManus, Tucker Shaw, Bryan Roof, and our fabulous team of test cooks!

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07DBQW5D8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ America's Test Kitchen (July 17, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 17, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 423657 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
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The mission of America’s Test Kitchen (ATK) is to empower and inspire confidence, community, and creativity in the kitchen. Founded in 1992, the company is the leading multimedia cooking resource serving millions of fans with TV shows (America’s Test Kitchen, Cook's Country, and America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation), magazines (Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country), cookbooks, a podcast (Proof), FAST channels, short-form video series, and the ATK All-Access subscription for digital content. Based in a state-of-the-art 15,000-square-foot test kitchen in Boston’s Seaport District, ATK has earned the trust of home cooks and culinary experts alike thanks to its one-of-a-kind processes and best-in-class techniques. More than fifty full-time test cooks, editors, and product testers spend their days tweaking every variable to find the very best recipes, equipment, ingredients, and techniques.

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4.8 out of 5 stars
4.8 out of 5
663 global ratings
Beautiful, informative, and packed full of recipes!
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Beautiful, informative, and packed full of recipes!
Love love love this recipe book! Full of cool tips and tricks and solid recipes! There are explanations of why to use each ingredient and how the science of baking works so you understand why you’re doing certain things to the product. Super informative and beautiful. I made a bunch of items from here but the most stunning with the summer berry tart! Soooo good. I will say, I’ve gotten The Perfect Cake and The Perfect Cookie from the library since this book, and more than a few (but certainly not all) recipes overlap, so if you own either of those books you may have mild disappointment. But there is so much more in other categories that it’s definitely still worth it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars So useful!
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024
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Fantastic book. Every recipe so far has been spot on.
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Boba bear
5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite book
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2023
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I saw this book at my friend’s place and tried her chocolate cake based on one of the recipes from the book. It was delicious! I got one for myself and loved it immediately. The instructions are clear and detailed. They even include results of testing various methods so that you know what can work and what to avoid. Must have!
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KO
5.0 out of 5 stars Best baking book around
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023
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So many amazing recipes that make you feel like a gourmet chef. Lots of tips and tricks on baking that I would've never learned otherwise! This book was recommended to me by a private chef and it is the best.
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Carol Shattuck
5.0 out of 5 stars Cookbook
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2023
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Love this cookbook
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Don
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2023
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Complete baking guide
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Dolores D
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, informative, and packed full of recipes!
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2018
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Love love love this recipe book! Full of cool tips and tricks and solid recipes! There are explanations of why to use each ingredient and how the science of baking works so you understand why you’re doing certain things to the product. Super informative and beautiful. I made a bunch of items from here but the most stunning with the summer berry tart! Soooo good. I will say, I’ve gotten The Perfect Cake and The Perfect Cookie from the library since this book, and more than a few (but certainly not all) recipes overlap, so if you own either of those books you may have mild disappointment. But there is so much more in other categories that it’s definitely still worth it!
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Dolores D
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, informative, and packed full of recipes!
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2018
Love love love this recipe book! Full of cool tips and tricks and solid recipes! There are explanations of why to use each ingredient and how the science of baking works so you understand why you’re doing certain things to the product. Super informative and beautiful. I made a bunch of items from here but the most stunning with the summer berry tart! Soooo good. I will say, I’ve gotten The Perfect Cake and The Perfect Cookie from the library since this book, and more than a few (but certainly not all) recipes overlap, so if you own either of those books you may have mild disappointment. But there is so much more in other categories that it’s definitely still worth it!
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Kasey and Dawn Crawford
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic cookbook full of wonderful recipes
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2018
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Fantastic cookbook full of wonderful recipes. Lots of great tips and tricks for things that I make regularly and didn't think could use improvement. Today I made the chocolate bundt and the lemon bundt and both were fantastic, I even subbed the white flour for white whole wheat flour and they still turned out great. I loved the tip to mix a paste made of 1 T melted butter with flour and brush it over the bundt to make it truly non-stick. For chocolate use 1T melted butter and 1T cocoa powder for chocolate. It worked like a charm and the bundt cakes slid right out.
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no-nonsense
4.0 out of 5 stars Updated and comprehensive
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2022
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I bought my 1st Cook's cookbook over 20 yrs ago
The brand has flourished and improved since then
The book 20 yrs ago did not have glossy photos and used ordinary copy paper that yellowed over time
This book is now hard cover, has glossy photos of finished recipe products (not every recipe, maybe 1/3), but uses a glossy, thicker, better quality paper that will probably age better
Each recipe comes with footnotes of HOW & WHY the recipe should be the best version of intended product
Most recipes are heavily tested before committed to book, as well as teaching the reader on how to become a better cook or baker
Vintage style black & white drawings of products are interspersed throughout the book as explanatory & illustrative notes on how, when, where, and why certain ingredients & techniques are used
At the end of the recipe section are a list with pictures of recommended ingredients or tools used. I find this very helpful, because consumers have a lot of choices, but which are the tried & true tools that hold up over time and works as intended? Cooks does extensive testing on all this and reports this to you. You can take it or leave it, but I like how they report why they like what they recommend.
The book covers just about everything (donuts, cookies, pizza crusts, bread, even croissants, dinner rolls, cakes, biscuits, scones, pies, bars, brownies), but mainly sticks to the basics. It's not a book about VARIATIONS on tried and true baking items. It gives you the BEST version of the common basics and explains in detail why their version is the best.
This cookbook is sort of like Consumers Reports approach to the best way to bake/cook. It teaches as much as it seeks to transmit recipes that will satisfy your appetite for good food.
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George Roberts
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and easy to follow
Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2023
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The most impressive thing I learned from this cookbook is how easy they make baking by explaining step by step the process to get to the best result. How often I wondered what "The Best" was going to turn out like when the recipe was taken from online recipes? Cooks Illustrated takes the guess work out of the equation. Why the recipes work, how they arrived on what works best, very detailed ingredients list and clear step by step baking instructions makes this book a blessing. Now anyone can bake with confidence thanks to Cooks.
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Kowalski
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Recipes, Great Selection
Reviewed in Germany on December 4, 2023
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If you're ever in desperate need for a good (although not great) recipe for waffles, lava cake, Quiche Lorraine, or any other baked good, this book is for you.

This is my go-to-book for cheese cake recipes, as it has the best recipes that I know of. Apparently the secret is to ensure that the filling doesn't get too hot (maximum 66°C, 150°F).

Belongs in every kitchen, as it's a great starting point for all things baked.

The book only gets a 4/5 from me, since many of the cake recipes can be found better elsewhere. This is if you want to be a good desert cook. If you want to be great, you'll have to move on from this eventually.
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Allegra65
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
Reviewed in Italy on May 23, 2023
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Very beautiful and good explication, but I expected more photos of the recipes.
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Alex A
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2020
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The french toast and every other recipe I’ve tried so far are delicious and perfectly explained !
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nell charlebois
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Cookbook for the home Baker
Reviewed in Canada on September 29, 2022
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This cookbook has everything you need to Bake!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Cookbook for the home Baker
Reviewed in Canada on September 29, 2022
This cookbook has everything you need to Bake!!
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