Offers recipes from the owner of a popular Brooklyn bakery for classic favorite desserts that combine homestyle American baking approaches with French influences.

More than 120 recipes for fabulous cakes, icings, fillings, and toppings for endlessly delectable combinations from the founder of Baked by Melissa. Melissa Ben-Ishay believes baking should be fun and easy—and that incredible flavor can be in bite-size amounts. This ethos and her lively, personal style are infused throughout Cakes by Melissa. A simple-to-follow crash course in making baking more like crafting, it offers Melissa’s fresh takes on traditional cakes and inventive ideas to make dessert in any form extra sweet. The cookbook will encourage home bakers to be creative and spontaneous in their baking, even including fill-in-the-blank ingredient sheets to individualize their special treats. From the very recipe that started it all—the tie-dye cupcake—to peanut butter banana cake batter and icings and crumbles that inspire the baker in us all to create scrumptious desserts, Cakes by Melissa is filled with unique and totally irresistible recipes to devour. Replete with 125-150 photographs and stunningly designed pages that mirror the down-to-earth and colorful Baked by Melissa aesthetic, Cakes by Melissa is a celebration of the joys of baking for experts and novices alike, and is a must for Melissa’s fans.

From the James Beard Award nominee, a comprehensive baking bible for the twenty-first century, with 120 scientifically grounded recipes for sweet and savory baked goods anyone can master. "A very good combination: Baking science all of us can understand and a splendid collection of recipes. . . . A baker’s must!” —Dorie Greenspan, author of Dorie's Cookies and Everyday Dorie Melissa Weller is the baking superstar of our time. As the head baker at some of the best restaurants in the country, her takes on chocolate babka and sticky buns brought these classics back to life and kicked off a nationwide movement. In A Good Bake, Weller shares her meticulously honed, carefully detailed recipes for producing impossibly delicious--and impossibly beautiful--baked goods. A chemical engineer before she became a baker, Weller uses her scientific background to explain the whys and hows of baking, so home cooks can achieve perfect results every time. Here are recipes both sweet (Pumpkin Layer Cake with Salted Caramel Buttercream and Brown Sugar Frosting) and savory (Khachapuri with Cheese, Baked Egg, and Nigella Seeds); beloved classics (Croissants and Chocolate Babka) and new sure-to-be favorites (Milk Chocolate and Raspberry Blondies)--as well as Salted Caramel Sticky Buns, of course . . . all written and tested for even the most novice home baker to re-create. With gorgeous photographs by the award-winning Johnny Miller, and tutorials that demystify all of the stuff that sounds complicated, like working with yeast, sourdough starters, and laminating dough Weller's book is the one guide every home baker needs.

Jacob learned the rules of baking from watching Chef Monty on TV, and now he is ready to make his own peach pie in his Easy-On Oven. Even when things get messy and Jacob's parents say there is no more time for baking, he is determined to see his pie through to the end. Cari Best's tasty text and Melissa Sweet's scrumptious collage illustrations combine to make a picture book as satisfying as a perfect slice of pie. Easy as Pie is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Incredible Paleo Baked Goods for Every Craving Paleo bakers rejoice! Michele Rosen, founder of the cooking blog Paleo Running Momma, has created 60 spot-on Paleo versions of all the cakes, cookies, brownies, muffins, pies and breads you love. With these genius gluten- and processed sugar–free recipes, you can indulge in all of your go-to treats without the guilt—whether you’re Paleo or simply trying to eat cleaner meals. This collection of tested and perfected recipes includes showstopping treats for birthdays and events, as well as simple sweets for every day. And with every recipe using natural ingredients and whole foods, not only is everything healthier, but it’s tastier too! Indulge in outrageous sweets, like Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Maple Cinnamon Frosting, Double Chocolate Cherry Cookies, Apple Cinnamon Bread with Walnut Streusel, Salted Caramel Cookie Crumble Bars, Blueberry Scones and so much more. Michele also includes savory treats, like Classic Chewy Homemade Bagels and Authentic Soft Pretzels. Rediscover all your favorites, with this brilliant book of healthy, yummy and foolproof Paleo baking recipes!

The renowned baker and author of The Handmade Loaf presents the ultimate baking compendium, an Andre Simon Food Book Award–winner. Dan Lepard’s innovative and earthy approach has made him the baker that every top chef wants in their kitchen. Now, with this comprehensive how-to-bake book, you’ll be baking cakes, pastries, breads, and cookies with him by your side. Drawin together his best recipes, Dan imparts his unique methodologies, combining contemporary food science with old-fashioned kitchen wisdom. Guiding you through the crispest flatbreads, blue cheese and oatmeal biscuits, gluten-free white loaves, savoury leek and smoked haddock pies, caramel sweets, frostings, simple scones and pumpkin and ginger cupcakes, Short and Sweet has everything from updated classics to the latest in allergen-friendly baking. If baking is therapy, let Dan be your life coach. Beyond teaching a wide range of techniques, he teaches you how to improve on your successes, transforming the merely good to the unforgettably delicious.

Now in board book A young girl and her mother shop to buy ingredients for vegetable soup. At home, they work together--step by step--to prepare the meal. A little later, the family sits down to enjoy a special dinner. Melissa Iwai's Soup Day celebrates the importance of making a nutritious meal and sharing in the process as a family. A Christy Ottaviano Book