num_pages: 416
description: The learn-to-bake master class in a book.The craft of baking is based on good technique. Learn the fundamentals well and you can bake perfect cakes cookies tarts breads and pastries each and every time.That's the premise of Baking  revered cooking teacher James Peterson's master course in baking fundamentals. In more than 350 recipes and auxiliary techniques--most accompanied by illuminating step-by-step photographs--Peterson lays the foundation for lifelong baking success.This book teaches you how to build finished baked goods from their essential components providing both maximum guidance for less experienced bakers and great creative freedom for more confident bakers. The Cakes chapter for example presents basic cake recipes (Moist Sponge Cake Devil' s Food Cake) followed by frostings fillings and glazes (Professional-Style Buttercream White Chocolate Ganache) allowing you to mix and match endlessly. Or if you're looking for knockout assembled cakes go to the end of the chapter and discover complete illustrated instructions for say a decadent Chocolate Hazelnut Cake with Chocolate Filling and Hazelnut Buttercream or an elegant Peach Crme Mousseline Cake.Baking is packed with the basic must-have recipes for every baker's repertoire (as well as more ambitious classics) such Pound Cake  Crme Anglaise  Chiffon Cake  Cheesecake  Classic Puff Pastry  Cherry Pie  Lemon Meringue Pie  Miniature Raw Fruit Tarts  Linzertorte  Cream Puffs  Chocolate Croissants  Cheese Danish  Basic Butter Cookies  Lemon Bars  Biscotti  Challah  Rye Bread  Focaccia  Blueberry Muffins  Scones  Flourless Chocolate Cake  Cheese Souffles  Miniature Cake Petits Fours  Apple Strudel  Napoleons  Rolled Fondant  Bche de Nol  clairs  Mushroom JalousieCopious photographs inspire and help bakers visualize the crucial moments of hundreds of recipes and techniques Troubleshooting Tarts and Pies  Baking Blind  Making Liquid Fondant  Coating a Cake with Hot Icing  Assembling a Layer Cake without Using a Cake Stand  Decorating a Cake with a Caramel Cage  Coloring Marzipan  Making a Rolled Cake  Decorating Cookies with Colored Sugar  Filling and Using a Pastry Bag  Kneading Wet Dough in a Food Processor  Scoring Dough  Shaping a Fougasse  Repairing Chocolate Mixtures that Have Seized  Cooking Sugar Syrup to the Soft Ball StageThorough approachable and authoritative Baking shows why James Peterson is a trusted source for home cooks of every level. Work your way through this book and you will gain the skills you'll need for impressive results every time.
language: English
title: Baking
publisher: Ten Speed Press