For experienced bakers and novices alike, Baking Cookbooks guide readers to master the art of bread, cookies, cakes, pastries and other desserts. These cookbooks range from simple, like The King Arthur Baking Company's All-Purpose Baker's Companion to complex, like French Macarons for Beginners by Natalie Wong.

For experienced bakers and novices alike, Baking Cookbooks guide readers to master the art of bread, cookies, cakes, pastries and other desserts. These cookbooks range from simple, like The King Arthur Baking Company's All-Purpose Baker's Companion to complex, like French Macarons for Beginners by Natalie Wong.

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About Baking

Baking cookbooks instruct readers in the ingredients, steps, and techniques necessary to complete a recipe. Sometimes, these works also include background information, such as where the recipe originated from or its cultural significance. The focus of these books are the recipes and baking, though sometimes the guides also work as the author’s memoir or regional history. Baking books serve as a reference guide with instructions, written by anyone from an individual baker to popular pastry chefs. Including tips, tricks, and techniques from everything from selecting ingredients to imparting difficult, restaurant-quality techniques, these guides allow readers to develop and practice their baking skills in the comfort of their own homes. Originated from ancient civilizations dating back to at least 1700 B.C., cookbooks spread in popularity and style. The pioneering cookbook by Eliza Acton, Modern Cookery for Private Families was an influential book aimed at the domestic, everyday family, rather than chefs and cooks, and developed the genre to its modern iteration. From here, cookbooks spread from general cooking advice to taking a more specialized focus, with baking cookbooks as a prime example. Books like How to Bake by Paul Hollywood and The Baking Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum offer readers easy baking guides.

Baking cookbooks instruct readers in the ingredients, steps, and techniques necessary to complete a recipe. Sometimes, these works also include background information, such as where the recipe originated from or its cultural significance. The focus of these books are the recipes and baking, though sometimes the guides also work as the author’s memoir or regional history. Baking books serve as a reference guide with instructions, written by anyone from an individual baker to popular pastry chefs. Including tips, tricks, and techniques from everything from selecting ingredients to imparting difficult, restaurant-quality techniques, these guides allow readers to develop and practice their baking skills in the comfort of their own homes. Originated from ancient civilizations dating back to at least 1700 B.C., cookbooks spread in popularity and style. The pioneering cookbook by Eliza Acton, Modern Cookery for Private Families was an influential book aimed at the domestic, everyday family, rather than chefs and cooks, and developed the genre to its modern iteration. From here, cookbooks spread from general cooking advice to taking a more specialized focus, with baking cookbooks as a prime example. Books like How to Bake by Paul Hollywood and The Baking Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum offer readers easy baking guides.