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A review by ceeemvee
Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple by Dorie Greenspan, Mark Weinberg
5.0
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an advance copy of this book in return for an honest review.
My first introduction to Dorie Greenspan was through her cookbook, Around My French Table. It’s a wonderful cookbook, full of beautiful pictures and amazing recipes, which are all written so well. It is a friendly guide that takes the intimidation out of venturing into French cuisine. Greenspan is the winner of five James Beard and two IACP awards, and this is her fourteenth cookbook. She continues her tradition of making recipes easy to understand and easy to make with easy to find ingredients. Part of Dorie’s style is to introduce each recipe. There are delightful tales of where and when she discovered the recipe, and how she has given it her own spin. She also ends each basic recipe with a twist, encouraging you to be playful with the recipe and try new things. Looking for the perfect hostess gift? Look no more!
Here are some of the delectable gems awaiting you:
Breakfast Stuff
In addition to a variety of breads, there are English muffins, brioche, brioche sticky buns, babka (chocolate, and cheese-swirl), potato biscuits, cottage cheese biscuits, blueberry biscuits that border on cake, scones, scone pudding, muffins and loaves.
Cakes
What an endless list of scrumptious cakes! Treat yourself to Party Cakes like Devil’s Food, banana, lemon meringue layer cake, salted caramel; curd, cream and berry; coconut-milk-chocolate marble cake; apricot and pistachio olive oil cake; Swedish fika cake; an Everything Cake with plentiful variations; jelly rolls and cheesecakes.
Cookies
Make it a sweet coffee or tea break with delicious homemade cookies. Choose from chocolate chip with a few variations, including maple and bacon and rye-Cranberry; shortbread, biscuits Rose, which are like crunchy ladyfingers, crackly and hardly sweet; rugelach; financiers; (cake-like cookies); hermits; biscotti and brownies.
Indulge in pies, tarts, cobblers and crisps with mulled butter apple; galette; apple pandowdy; and pear, berry, rhubarb and custard options.
Also included is baking Salty Side Up. There are savory indulgences like little baked bleu cheese bites; goat cheese-black pepper quick bread; clam chowder pie (what is that?); fig and goat cheese tart; or a mushroom, herb and ricotta tart.
I will leave you with my must-try picks:
Breakfast in Rome Lemon Cake
Crumb-topped Ricotta Cofee Cake
Mocha Walnut Torte
Lamingtons (squares of cake covered in chocolate and coated in coconut)
Lisbon Chocolate Cake , with 3 distinct layers that is not difficult
Madeleines made with tea and honey
French Riveriera Lemon Tart
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My first introduction to Dorie Greenspan was through her cookbook, Around My French Table. It’s a wonderful cookbook, full of beautiful pictures and amazing recipes, which are all written so well. It is a friendly guide that takes the intimidation out of venturing into French cuisine. Greenspan is the winner of five James Beard and two IACP awards, and this is her fourteenth cookbook. She continues her tradition of making recipes easy to understand and easy to make with easy to find ingredients. Part of Dorie’s style is to introduce each recipe. There are delightful tales of where and when she discovered the recipe, and how she has given it her own spin. She also ends each basic recipe with a twist, encouraging you to be playful with the recipe and try new things. Looking for the perfect hostess gift? Look no more!
Here are some of the delectable gems awaiting you:
Breakfast Stuff
In addition to a variety of breads, there are English muffins, brioche, brioche sticky buns, babka (chocolate, and cheese-swirl), potato biscuits, cottage cheese biscuits, blueberry biscuits that border on cake, scones, scone pudding, muffins and loaves.
Cakes
What an endless list of scrumptious cakes! Treat yourself to Party Cakes like Devil’s Food, banana, lemon meringue layer cake, salted caramel; curd, cream and berry; coconut-milk-chocolate marble cake; apricot and pistachio olive oil cake; Swedish fika cake; an Everything Cake with plentiful variations; jelly rolls and cheesecakes.
Cookies
Make it a sweet coffee or tea break with delicious homemade cookies. Choose from chocolate chip with a few variations, including maple and bacon and rye-Cranberry; shortbread, biscuits Rose, which are like crunchy ladyfingers, crackly and hardly sweet; rugelach; financiers; (cake-like cookies); hermits; biscotti and brownies.
Indulge in pies, tarts, cobblers and crisps with mulled butter apple; galette; apple pandowdy; and pear, berry, rhubarb and custard options.
Also included is baking Salty Side Up. There are savory indulgences like little baked bleu cheese bites; goat cheese-black pepper quick bread; clam chowder pie (what is that?); fig and goat cheese tart; or a mushroom, herb and ricotta tart.
I will leave you with my must-try picks:
Breakfast in Rome Lemon Cake
Crumb-topped Ricotta Cofee Cake
Mocha Walnut Torte
Lamingtons (squares of cake covered in chocolate and coated in coconut)
Lisbon Chocolate Cake , with 3 distinct layers that is not difficult
Madeleines made with tea and honey
French Riveriera Lemon Tart
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