Review: recipes look good, no photos, no cake mixes used, that I noticed anyway
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
I have not tried any of the recipes YET, but I will. There were a number of them that look good to me.Why I am already writing a review is that I have seen a lot of recipe books lately that do NOT tell you what size baking pan to use, or have weird formatting that makes it harder than it should be to see the pan size or the baking temperature. This book makes all of those details easy to see. I like that a lot. It SHOULD be a given, but not lately, not so much... However, there are a LOT if different sized baking pans called for, that could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how completely your kitchen is outfitted with different sizes of bakeware.There are NO photos, except the one on the cover. Again, that may or may not matter to you.I like that the recipes for the tops (crusts -  for lack of being able to think of a better word) of the crisps or cobblers, are homemade. I did not want to use the word "toppings", since the author included several whipped cream kinds of toppings. Anyway, the "crusts" are made with (usually) inexpensive ingredients, the kind of stuff you will likely have on hand if you do much "from scratch" baking at all. In other words, the baked-on top (crust) is not just using a cake mix or Bisquick. Again, I find that using a prepackaged stuff in recipe books is increasing common. So, if that IS the way you like your recipes, OR if you really like loads of photos of the final product, this is not likely to be the book you want. I think it looks very good though.