I thought it would be fun to share some books I’ve been wanting to bake from. Just some of the sweet reads sitting on my shelf. Well, actually they are on my mantle and on my floor because I am in desperate need of a bookshelf to house them all and keep them cozy.
They pretty much stay stacked to save space. I can get more stacks on my mantle that way. But you know – the book I want to pull down is always the one on the bottom. Of course. But do I unstack them to get to the one I need? Of course not. I strain and push and wiggle to lift the ones on top and try to inch the one I want out.
It’s never pretty.
Thank goodness all of these books are.
Let’s take a quick peek at them and hopefully you can help me decide which one to use first.
Tartine Bread by Chad Robertson
Photographs by Eric Wolfinger
This is a big, beautiful book of bread. And it scares me a little. I haven’t worked with dough or yeast a lot. But I want to learn. I want to make bread! And this book from the legendary Tartine Bakery in San Francisco is gonna help me. One day.
Ultimate Cookies by Julia Usher
Photographs by Steve Adams
Let me just say that this book could just as easily be placed in the art section as it is in the cookbook section. Julia’s cookie designs and attention to detail are absolutely amazing. Her piping work is impeccable and a little intimidating too. But she has lots of pictures and instructions to help you along the way.
Sugarlicious by Meaghan Mountford
Cute treats and fun sweets. This book is full of whimsical projects to that are easy to make and decorate for any occasion. And many of them kids can make, too.
Handheld Pies by Sarah Billingsley and Rachel Wharton
Photographs by Ellen Silverman
Umm… Pies? In my hand? Sold. Tiny treats in any form are hard for me to resist. And so was this cover. The book is divided into freeform pies, structured pies and jar pies. Too cute.
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier by Ree Drummond
Hey Ree – Thank you for including so many sweets in your beautiful cookbook. The Coffee Cream Cake is calling me. But so are all the other recipes. Maybe I should just start at the top and check each one off. If they are as good as the Chocolate Sheet Cake in your first book, I am in trouble.
Sweet Auburn Desserts by Sonya Jones
Photographs by Deborah Llewellyn
That’s a cover, huh. Completely captivating. I can’t stop looking at it and I think my heart just started racing.
Sweet Auburn Bakery is located in Atlanta and I can’t believe I haven’t visited yet. I must correct that immediately. Oh and stack cakes just moved up on the to-bake list. Oh my. Oh! My!
The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook by Cheryl Day and Griffith Day
Look how adorable these two are. This book is from another Southern bakery and it makes me want to jump in the car and head straight to Savannah, GA to visit their charming shop. Turning the pages, each dessert is more tempting than the next. And there’s savories inside, too. Bacon Jam empanadas and the ham and cheese pastry puffs have my name all over them.
Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book by Jake Godby, Sean Vahey and Paolo Lucchesi
Photographs by Frankie Frankeny
With ice cream flavors like Secret Breakfast, Rosemary’s Baby and Fat Elvis … and more than 300K twitter followers, I want to know more about this little ice cream shop in San Francisco. When they say ice cream with attitude, they mean it.
Joy the Baker Cookbook by Joy Wilson
Oh Joy. Your book is a total biggie. I remember when we chatted at the book signing I had in Santa Monica and you were just starting it. Can you believe? Look at the amazingness you made. So happy for you! Oh… and those Baked Chili Cheese Fries… help me. P.S. Great arms!
Milk & Cookies by Tina Casaceli
Photographs by Antonis Achilleos
With a title like that, how can you go wrong. Divided by vanilla cookies, double chocolate cookies, oatmeal cookies, peanut butter cookies, sugar cookies, special cookies, family favorites, brownies and bars … milk is definitely mandatory.
Marshmallow Madness by Shauna Sever
Photographs by Leigh Beisch
I love this cover!!! Love it. I want to wallpaper my kitchen in it! All I know is marshmallows will be happening soon. I just need a better candy thermometer first and then look out.
Pie it Forward by Gesine Bullock-Prado
Photographs by Tina Rupp
Pies, tarts, tortes and galettes. Yes, yes, yes and yes! Filled with tons of recipes and a passion to pie it forward, Gesine’s book should make any pie lover happy.
The Divvies Bakery Cookbook by Lori Sandler
I’ve had this book for a little while now and have meant to bake from it way before now. All the recipes are vegan and some are gluten free, too. If you have a need for egg, nut or dairy free, you might want to check it out. You can order online from them, too.
The Cookiepedia by Stacy Adimando
Photographs by Tara Striano
An encyclopedia of cookies. Oh yes. Buttery, chocolaty, fancy, fruity, spicy and nutty cookies fill the pages of this super cute book. It lays flat, too. Love that.
Home Baked Comfort by Kim Laidlaw
Photographs by Eric Wolfinger
I’ve baked from this book before but I couldn’t help showing it again. It’s really beautiful and one of the few books that I want to make almost everything inside. P.S. I have a recipe in the book, too. Fun!
Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts by Mark and Michael Klebeck with Jess Thomson
Photographs by Scott Pitts
I didn’t make it to Top Pot Doughnuts when I was in Seattle, but hopefully I can fix that one day soon. I love cake doughnuts and old fashioned doughnuts. Okay, I love any doughnuts. Except filled. Can’t do filled so much.
Les Petits Macarons by Kathryn Gordon and Anne McBride
Photographs by Steve Legato
I love these little cookie confections. I’ve made them a couple of times, but not enough to feel confident with them, so I scooped up this cute book for inspiration.
Push-Up Pops from Courtney Dial Whitmore
Photographs Kyle Dreier
Hey Courtney! Thanks for sending me your book. I have my push-up pop containers and I’m ready to go. Can’t wait to play with them.
The Sugar Cube by Kir Jensen with Danielle Centoni
Photographs by Lisa Warninger
Twisted treats from the heart of this sweet little food cart in Portland. And yes, those are chocolate chips drizzed in caramel on top of that cupcake. This one looks like it will be fun to dive in to.
Sugar Baby by Gesine Bullock-Prado
Photographs by Tina Rupp
This book is mostly about cooking with sugar instead of baking with it. Working on the stove instead of the oven. And yes, you can make your own rock candy at home. Super excited about that one. The recipes are divided by temperature so a good candy thermometer would be helpful.
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home by Jeni Britton Bauer
Photographs by Stacy Newgent
I love everything about this book. The topic, the design, the unique flavors, the way the ice cream recipes are photographed. And I would love it more if I owned an ice cream machine so I could make some too. In the meantime, I just read that Jeni started selling some of her flavors at The Fresh Market last week – Yay for us! And you can also order them online.
Flour by Joanne Chang with Christie Matheson
Photographs by Keller + Keller
Spectacular recipes from Boston’s Flour Bakery fill the pages of this mouth-watering book. Nutella tarts, chocolate brioche, and brown sugar popovers sound like a good place to start.
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Phew – That wasn’t as quick as I expected but I hope you enjoyed this sweet peek.
So, which book or books would you want to bake from first?
If you made it all the way to the end of this post, just answer that question here on the website and you’ll be entered for a chance to win a $150 Amazon gift card so you can pick out a bunch of books to bake from – or anything else you’d rather get from their site.
Deadline to enter is Thursday, May 3rd at 6 p.m. ET. Sorry, Time’s Up. Winner announced below.
One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Thursday evening.
Good luck guys!
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Oh my. That was fun. I really like reading what you guys like. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing with me. I picked the winner and the gift certificate is going to Dawn H! Yay! Looks like you will be able to bring a little bit of Tartine right to your own kitchen. Have fun shopping and deciding.
Giveaway sponsored by me.
Tartine Bread first- I also want to try bread. The second would be push pops. I’ve been wanting to try those!
I don’t have any of these books in my library!! Think I would go with Sugalicious first but it’s such a hard choice with so many dleicious covers and inspiration.
Drool, drool, drool.
I’d love to bake from The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook by Cheryl Day and Griffith Day. It looks so charming!
Marshmallow madness! We can’t get those books over here, in the Netherlands :-(
Hmm, maybe Jeni’s ice cream book. That sounds exciting and different!
The Pioneer Women or Push up Pop
I think Marshmallow Madness and Sugar Baby would be the first 2 books to cook from. Both look like they have alot of fun
recipes in them and when I cook or bake I like to have FUN.
Ok, of the divvies-I’m not a vegan. Make that Ultimate cookies ;)
It’s a toss up between Handheld Pies and Milk & Cookies, but they all look amazing! Thanks!
I would love to try Petite Macarons. I went to Paris a couple of years ago and became fascinated with macarons. I find them absolutely delicious. I have tried baking the macarons and they have been okay but maybe a great book would help.
Oh, they all look great, but I would have to start with Milk and Cookies….just takes me back to my childhood.
They all look great but 3 catched my eye :
– Home Baked Comfort
– Milk and Cookies
– Sweet Auburn Desserts
The food looks So good!!!
Sweet Auburn Desserts by Sonya Jones! That cover is amazing!
Push-up Pops looks good!
Hard choice, but I would probably go to The Sugar Cube, The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook, and Sugarlicious to start!
Definitely Sugar Baby!
Pie.Pie.piepiepiepiepiepiepiepiepie…
I was sad that I didn’t win it last time. I still want the Home Baked Comfort book!!! They all look so yummy!!
Oops, wrong email earlier–it’s still Milk & Cookies!
Milk & Cookies, Milk & Cookies!
Sugar Cube looks fun!
Sugar baby. The cover is so cute and looks delicious.
The Pioneer Woman Cooks would be my first choice
My daughter is allergic to eggs, milk, wheat, soy, nuts, oats, and more so I’d check out the Divvies book first!
It would have to be Handheld Pies by Sarah Billingsley and Rachel Wharton,because over here in new Zealand we are coming into winter (pie time!)
I have and love p-dubs book and read it once a week but the new book would be joy the baker but all look wonderful
FLOUR!!!
The macaron book, definitely! But, the marshmallow book is intriguing, too!
Holy Cannoli! Hand held pies. Because if god didn’t want us having pies like that then he wouldn’t have given us 2 hands. One for apple pie and one for chocolate pie.
Pie it forward!!!! I love pies in my country they are colled tartas!!!!
My sister has been raving about the recipies in Flour – she loves that book. Now excuse me, I have to get me some Handheld Pies – Amazon, here I come!
That’s easy! Ree Drummond’s cookbook!!!!!
Bread or Milk and Cookies…….both are very tempting….and I’m trying to be good and do without flour for awhile….but I can still read, dream, and drool 8D, love your site
Flour! Their banana bread is my absolute favorite.
Joy the Baker Cookbook would be first on my list as I really like the down to earth element of her blog and the associated recipes. I think her recipes encompass would baking truly is / should be: good things that make people happy.
im totally looking forward for the MARSHMALLOW MADNESS BY SHAUNA SEVER.. :D …Cooking with marshmallows is probably gonna be cool. <3 <3
Marshmallow madness!!! I would love to win <3
Definitely Milk and Cookies! I am drooling just thinking about all the different types of cookies that I can make after reading the book! :)
I vote Marshmallows! So fast and easy and super delicious!!
Gosh I’d like to have a look and cook and bake and make from all of them!! Can you just start a Library check out system for those of us that don’t win? Love the Titles and pictures of all of them. The hand pies, marshmallows, cookies, cookies and more cookies. Fresh Bread that looks divine. All the lovely ice cream, well I could go on and on. Guess I’ll just read thru your article and look at the pictures all over again. Can’t pick just one. Thanks for the introductions though, they all look Yummy!!
I would definately start with Recipes from Back in the Day and follow close behind with Pie it Forward.
I would definitely dive head first into Sugarlicious. It kind of has a similar feel to your cakepop book…So much to do and try in such little time… = )
Hmmm Decisions Decisions I dream sugar and chocolate so I’d be leaning towards a book on those goodies…Good luck everyone!!…Thanks for the giveaway….
“Les Petite Macarons”!
I would buy Ree’s cookbooks for sure! I’ve tried a couple of recipies off her website, and they were a hit, so having them at my fingertips would be so great!
les petits macarons, because no matter how hard i try my macarons never come out right! :( i think there’s something weird about my hand blender or silpat, because the same flop happens with any type of meringue the last two years i’ve tried.
I think the Handheld Pies look fun, but I have to ultimately root for Jeni’s! I’m from Columbus and have been eating her ice cream for some time. It. is. AMAZING! Allll that it is made out to be and so much more!
Sugar Baby would be interesting I think, but I would love to read ALL of them!
hi, I´m from Colombia suth america, I been learning so much with your webside, i love to have all this books becouse I´m a cook book adict thanks and sorry for my bad writing
I’ve been to Tartine and it’s wonderful–would definitely try Tartine bread and I’m a sucker for pie so Handheld Pies looks yummy!
Flour. It looks amazing and I thank my Bigmama for giving me the love of baking and flour!
Wow, what a great collection. My choices, in no particular order are: Sweet Auburn Desserts, Marshmallow Madness! & Push-Up Pops!
we’re all about doughnuts in our house right now – i’d definitely start with hand forged doughnuts. YUM!
Sugarlicious!!
I want more sweets that i can do easily with my son.
I’d pick the Milk & Cookies book… mmmm that’s what I want right now!!
Either Milk & Cookies or Pie it Forward. I’m more likely to use the first title, but I really like the pun of the second one. =)
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home! I’ve paged through the library’s copy, and the roasted banana ice cream sounds sooooo delicious.
I would love to tackle something from Les Petits Macarons. Drool.
Handheld pies!!!! enough said :)
Easy: Jeni’s Ice Cream! Hands down. Summer is on it’s way and I would want to be prepared. :)
Sugarlicious looks like it would be a lot of fun to have!
Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts and Marshmallow Madness, they could be great because I would like to learn how make delicious donuts… mmm!!! It just thinking makes me hungry!
They all look beautiful, but I have been curious about Sugar Baby for awhile now.
So very hard to pick. I would have to say Sugarlicious by Meaghan Mountford. Since my kids enjoy baking with me, we would have to check this one out first.
I would love to make a few of the Push Up Pop receipes!! Just the right size for sampling and sharing!!!
Wow, I want them all! I’ve already read a few and those are all fantastic. Out of the others I most definitely want Sugarbaby first! I love making candy! :-)
I couldn’t pick just one, would it cover the cost of all of them? :D
Oh, it’s all about the doughnuts! yum!
Home Baked Comfort
Definitely Marshmallow Madness, I would love to go mad for those bundles of sweetness. Mmm.
I love Flour by Joanne Chang with Christie Matheson but my kids would love Ultimate Cookies by Julia Usher.
I’ve been wanting The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier by Ree Drummond for so long. Can’t wait to make something out of there.
Wow all look awesome!!! But I’ll definitely start with cookiepedia, what an amazing idea to make an enciclopedy about cookies!
I love Joy the Baker!!! even pie it forward
I’d start with Home Baked Comfort. The title just makes me want to put on a cozy sweater and curl up on the couch with it.
Pioneer woman!
Flour – I just made the cornmeal lime cookies today. They are absolutely delicious!
Easy peasy……Marshmallow Madness….. I absolutely adore anything marshmallow-y!!!!
Handheld Pies… Most likely I’ll have the ingredients on hand I think, and like the freeform idea!
All of them look amazing. I culled my cookbook collection several years ago (the last time we moved) and now keep it to half a bookcase. If I haven’t used it… well, not much point in hanging on to it. But … there are so many MORE choices now!!
“Flour” looks like a great and versatile read!
Oh so many amazing looking books! I think the macaroon one would be the most interesting.
The Pioneer Woman Cooks! Or Pie It Forward! They all look so wonderful! :)
Handheld pies! There my new obsession!
I own the Cookiepedia one, so I guess the next on my list would be the Joy the Baker Cookbook – I’ve been wanting to get that one since it came out!
Hi there! Thanks for always sharing your sweetness! I’d love to bake from Push up Pops, The Back In the Day Cookbook, Joy the Baker Cookbook, and Sugar Baby…so many to choose from!
The Pioneer Woman’s cookbook or Home Baked Comfort!
I want all of them but if I have to choose it wound be the marshmallow fun! I love marshmallows!!!
Home baked comfort! Sounds lovely to me! All of them could get plenty of usage though:)
Either Hand-held pies or macarons! I already have the Marshmallow Madness book and have had a great time with it!
Handheld pies! My husband loves pie…
So, which book or books would you want to bake from first?
Wow– They all look amazing. I’d probably pick Milk & Cookies by Tina Casaceli– I love cookies.
Pioneer Woman cookbook: I bought it a few months ago and need to start cooking with the recipes.
Milk and Cookies! I got my love of baking cookies from my mom and in light of Mother’s Day approaching I’d love a new cookbook to share with her!
Joy the Baker for sure! Love her blog. :)
MARSHMALLOW MADNESS!!! just purchased “sweet designs” by Amy Atlas on amazon and that book is a definate “must have” in your book collection too :-)
I would choose Ree’s book. It looks amazing!
Oh, Milk & Cookies! For sure.
handheld pies? yes please. I need this book now. Thanks for this post, there are several here i’ve never heard of.
As I´m in my pie baking fase now a days… I choose Hand held pies (wich I would like to try very soon, for my kids to take for lunch (yeyyyyy!!!)) or Pie it forward.
That´s it for me today.
I have just baked a Mango pie that my grandmother use to bake for us girls (a while ago… me and my sisters). I haven´t tried it since she died, some 10 years ago. I manage to recover her pastry recipe, grab 8 beautiful golden ripe Ataulfo mangos (very Mexican), and baked a pie for home and another for my sister and my mother. It was a very nostalgic moment that made me feel as my grandmother was there with us having a slice of the pie with a Camomille cup of tea!!!
Thanks to you (as if I needed any more encouragement)… tomorrow I´ll be baking hand-size mango pies for my kids and friends at work!!
Thank you for the great list of books that I NEED to get ASAP!!!
Besos
Sugarlicious! These pictures look amazing.
How fun!! I would love to dig into Joy the bakers book, or either of the ice cream ones!
So hard to choose, but I’d first try “Les Petits Macarons”. I love those little cookies, but they are not available here in the middle of Montana. Maybe I could open a shop . . .
Most definitely…The Divvies Bakery Cookbook. Looks like it would be a great asset to have in meeting the vegan & gluten free needs!!!
Definitely “Flour”.
I picked up Tartine Bread at the William Sonoma outlet nearby recently. I haven’t been brave enough to try it yet though. It looks much more involved than the bread I usually make. But, Handheld Pies looks the most interesting of the bunch.
Definitely the donut book, although I wouldn’t mind any one of them!!
So many great looking books but I think I would read “Hand Held Pies” first.
Le Petit Macarons. They’re my new obsession.
I love Ree, so I’d say I’d go with Pioneer Woman Cooks. Although that marshmallow book looks like so much fun!
I’ve had my eye on Flour for quite some time. I watched a video interview with the woman who wrote the book and thought her story was really cool!
Hand held pies, please! They look so cute and I’d love to make some!
And if I could, I would give you some Top Pot Doughnuts. Every day QFC sells boxes of a dozen of them half off. I’ve been guilty of buying a few boxes. >.>
Flour! I just love how rustic chic it looks with its recipes!!
Hi! I would love to bake from “Joy the Baker”. I adore her and her blog :]
Sugar Baby please!
I would love to try Petite Macrons first, but my favorite boy would love it if I started with Handheld Pies!
Thanks so much for the giveaway!
I’d LOVE to bake from Back in the Day Bakery cookbook. We visited there when we went to Savannah. It was the most adorable bakery!!!
Back in the day, Ultimate cookies, Sugarlicious, all look like fun!
Oh, Milk and Cookies! For sure.
Either Pie It Forward or Marshmallow Madness, though all of them look amazing!
I need that sugarlicious book! My 4 year old loves making treats with me, and it looks like this book is full of ideas!
SUGARLICIOUS sounds very tempting and fun! good start to play cooking with my daughter =). Can i have that book? BAKERELLA amazingly inspired me and totally AWESOME!!!
Marshmallow Madness! I can definitely see cute marshmallows becoming a huge trend over the next year.
Wow, that is a tough question! The macaroons are definitely calling me but the Push up Pops and Flour are saying Pick Me! Pick me!
Whew. What a collection.
Milk and Cookies please.
Handheld Pies! Little pies sound so yummy. And sounds like i can eat many pies without regret ;)
Totally milk and cookies.
My mom bought Ree’s first book for me as a pick-me-up after I lost my job, so I would love to check out her second.
I would go for the handheld pie book. I saw a program on tv about the handheld pies, pie in a jar, etc. and would love to make some. I may have to find that book for myself! :)
Happy Baking!
I want to try a recipe from Les Petit Macarons. I was absolutely blown away when I tried macarons for the first time. They seem like an expensive magical mystery that I’d love to have the power to make!
Gina
Milk and Cookies looks good. Thanks!
petits macarons/ back in the day bakery cookbook/ pioneer woman cooks and handheld pies :)
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier would do it for me!
Flour! The banana bread recipe was so good it kicked my grandmother’s recipe out of my recipe box.
Wow, Hand Forged Donuts looks amazing, but The Pioneer Woman cook book is definitely on the top of my list too.
Probably ‘home baked comfort. The cake on the cover looks like a killer!
Hand Forged Doughnuts looks yummy!
It was between Marshmallow Madness and Flour so I will have to go with Marshmallow Madness since I spotted this at one of my favorite stores, Paper Source and was taken by it. I have always wanted to make them but am intimidated. I just made cake pops for the first time the weekend before last. Dreaming of doing something professional that would enable me to follow my passion. Love and admire what you do! I wish I had the know-how.
I would love anyone of them but those pushup pops and sugar baby books would be top on my list.
Milk and cookies, I cannot resist a good cookie :D
Toss up between the marshmallow and the push pops.
Hard choice but Push Up Pops!!!
Sweet Auburn Desserts
Amazing! Half of these books are already on my Amazon wishlist and the rest are being added.
Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston’s Flour Bakery + Cafe, looks truly divine, this is the one I would love to own.
oh so many great choices. but hand held pies wins out for me. gotta love a portable piece of pie.
The Joy the Baker cookbook! I really want that book since I love her blog so much.
I love how many unique cookbooks you can buy now: push up pops, handheld pies, marshmallows? If I had room in my tiny apartment I’d want them all.
Les Petit Macarons and Push Up Pops would be the ones I would start with.
Marshmallow madness!!!
Hand Held Pies. Yum.
Ultimate Cookies and Sugarlicious are tied for first! I could totally just bake one thing from each at the same time right? The more sweets the better, especially during finals week :)
I’m leaning towards the Divvies book. So many inquires about food allergies and so few decent recipes out there!
Push up pops! They look fun to make and eat!
That is way too hard to choose – they all look so good. I think maybe I could narrow it down to 2 – Hand Forged Doughnuts and Flour.
I think that I would go for Pie it Forward by Gesine Bullock-Prado because pie is only the best food ever!
I love Back in the Day! I’m here in Savannah, and their cupcakes are DIVINE. Haven’t gotten the cookbook yet, though, because — hey — I’ve got the real thing right here! Although I’m moving away soon so I should probably pick it up!
Oh goodness! So many great cookbooks! Half of those are already on my to-buy list but the Tartine Bread cookbook got me very excited. I love me some bread.
I can’t decide between doughnuts or push-up pops. They all look amazing!!!
What a fantastic giveaway! I would get a copy of The Pioneer Woman’s new cookbook for sure!
I’d want to bake from either Joy the Baker, or Williams Sonoma’s first! YUM!
So many great choices and so hard to choose but Ultimate Cookies by Julia Usher really intrigues me. Some look challenging but it would be so much fun and satisfying to create such goodies for my grandchildren!
I’d try Sugar Baby first! My dad loves everything made by sugar, specially those sugar pops! ;)
Pioneer Woman of course, I bought her first book and would love to try some recipes from her second one.
Hard choice!! I love cookbooks!!
I guess I would choice Handheld Pies.
Still searching for a great ice cream base that doesn’t crystalize when frozen so I would start there!
Whew, that’s a hard one. I think I would have to go for the Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts first! Mmmmm, warm doughnuts
I would LOVE to get the Push Up Pops book!
Besides your book? I really want to get The Pioneer Woman Cooks
Sugar Cube, Flour and Milk and Cookies all look so tempting!
Flour—looks deeeelish! And then I’d bake my way thru the other books!
Doughnuts!!! My daughter has allergies so she’s never had a real doughnut and we love to bake together!
I would go with joy’s book. Or the Pie It Forward. Or Sugar Baby.
Heck, that whole stack of books makes me inexplicably happy.
I’d bake from joy’s cookbook first! She was one of the first foodie blogs that I started reading a few years back and I still love reading her posts today.
My gosh! That’s a tough question!! I think I would have to start with Flour…..the delicious cover is mouth watering!!
I really think that Tartine Bread is amazing. As a new San Francisco resident, I have been there too many times already, and can tell you that their bread is unlike anything you’ve had before. And the cookbook is easy to follow. Whichever you choose, enjoy!
I would love to check out Pie it forward…i’ve been on a pie kick lately! And Cookiepedia looks fun, too!
Jeni’s Ice Cream or the Push Up Pops… I have a 5yr old and he would love both.
We started making ice cream last year and it has been wonderful. Our favorites have been… Cranberry Ice Cream and Pumpkin Ice Cream.
Hey! I just wanted to say how much I love your site. I get so inspired every time I check it out!
I would say, let’s see something from Flour. I’ve been dying to try some of their things, and since I’ve moved down south, I don’t think I’ll be able to visit their shop any time soon.
Thanks for the inspiration as always!
Shoot! I would like ANY of them! But, if I had to be honest, I’d probably get the most use out of Milk and Cookies or Cookiepedia :)
Start with “Ultimate Cookies” – but “Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home” would be second.
Oh probably the donut one! Hmmmmmmm or the pie one/s. Or the cake one! OR the Cupcake one!!!! lol
The The Divvies Bakery Cookbook is what I would bake from first. =)
Push-up pops
Flour. Because I don’t know what all those things were, but I want to make them anyway!!
Pioneer Woman :-)
Handheld Pies looks delish!!! But they ALL do!!! Such a difficult choice, so wish I could buy several!
The donut book. If I am going to get even more fat, I want to be even more fat off of those.
Food From My Frontier. Can’t get enough of Ree’s down home recipes! :)
I would want to try out recipes from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home and Joy the Baker. I LOVE ice cream and am not that adventurous when it comes to making. I also love Joy’s recipes and can’t wait to try more of her delicious creations.
Pie is my favorite dessert so the cookbook would have to be “Handheld Pies” or “Pie it Forward”
I’m a wannabe bread fanatic, so I would pick the Tartine bread book first. But they are all so tempting!
Thanks for the instructions of where to post. I say why pick just one! What you really need is more tasters!!!
Pioneer Woman and the Push-Up Pop one!
Sugar Baby sounds amazing!
I’d LOVE all of them but I’d really like The Pioneer Woman one and the Push-Up Pop ones!
I also have quite of few of those same books waiting for me on my shelves! I’m most interested in trying out Pie in Forward and Les Petits Macarons.
How in the world could I choose??? There are so many of those that I would read over and over before I actually made anything, but Sugarlicious and The Divvies’ Book both look intriguing and FUN! I definitely would choose both of those first.
Very difficult question! So many great choices. I will go with Pie it Forward, oh, and push up cakes, oh, and an ice cream one, oh, and, all of them. Beautiful collection! Pick me, pick me!
I just bought Marshmallow Madness and they all look so great I’m having a hard time choosing!!!! Thanks Bakerella!! You’re the best!
Sara
Handheld Pies looks awesome… then again, they all do!
The Milk and Cookies book looks like a good place to start!
Handheld pies….love pies. love little things. mmmmm……