Available on ckbk now
How to Bake

How to Bake

by Nick Malgieri

from the publisher

Winner of the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Baking Book! One of America's preeminent bakers and baking teachers presents this accessible, hardcover guide to creating professional-quality confections. Nick Malgieri shares scores of mouth-watering recipes for plain and fancy cakes; breads, biscuits, muffins, and scones; sweet and savory pies and tarts; brownies, macaroons, rugelach, and all manner of cookies. In addition to his clear, detailed instructions, Malgieri offers helpful tips for variations on classic recipes as well as suggestions for everything from making a pastry bag to mastering cake and pie toppings. Presented in order from the simplest to most complex, these recipes from the collection of a great pastry chef will add a whole new level of sophistication to your kitchen repertoire.

Most popular

Original Publisher
William Morrow
Date of publication
1995
ISBN
0486829189

Features & Stories

Behind the Cookbook: How to Bake by Nick Malgieri

Behind the Cookbook: How to Bake by Nick Malgieri

American pastry chef Nick Malgieri’s book, How to Bake: Complete Guide to Perfect Cakes, Cookies, Pies, Tarts, Breads, Pizzas, Muffins won a James Beard Foundation award when first published in 1995. We are pleased to add the updated Dover edition of this classic title to ckbk, where it joins an extensive bookshelf of Malgieri’s titles. In the Q & A below, republished and updated with permission, Nick tells Eat Your Books’ Jenny Hartin about the background to this, his first cookbook.
Author Profile: Nick Malgieri

Author Profile: Nick Malgieri

Nick Malgieri is a baking expert and a true master of his craft. He has a long line of bestsellers under his belt, many of which are available now, or coming soon on ckbk. We met Malgieri to look back on an exceptional career and find out how he was able to throw off the early trauma of writing and discover his own style.

Recommended by

Christina Pirello

Author and television personality

awards