The Complete Idiot's Guide to Baking

by Emily Nolan

You're no idiot, of course. You throw the best cocktail parties, buy the freshest produce, and even make a mean stir-fry. But when it comes to baking warm, gooey, chocolate chip cookies for your kids, you pretend the oven's out of order. Don't reach for the store-bought goods yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Baking provides easy, straightforward instructions for getting delicious results. Feel confident about baking cakes, muffins, breads, pizzas, and more. In this complete Idiot's Guide you get:

Genres: Cookbooks

324 pages, Paperback

Published October 13, 1997

About the author

Emily Nolan is a freelance writer and editor, recipe writer, and recipe developer who contributes food articles to magazines such as Food and Wine. Previously, Emily was the head pastry chef for Philadelphia's Le Bus, which caters to such four-star restaurants as The Four Seasons and Dean and DeLuca. She resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

[Chanel Earl]

Maybe this book wasn't meant to be read straight through, or maybe I am not a complete idiot when it comes to baking. In either case, I had problems with the repetition (entire paragraphs were repeated multiple times as if I hadn't read them), the remedial information listed (I know it says it is for idiots but I find it hard to believe that even an idiot needs the term "stir" defined), and the almost complete absence of useful information.

To be fair, I worked in a bakery for over a year, and have baked most of my life, so this probably just wasn't the book for me. Also, I didn't read the whole thing. I made it through the first four chapters and retained my sanity, maybe the rest would have been better, who knows.

[Monica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I knew some things, and it filled in the blanks on others.