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.
The Flour bakery book… I have been there and can confirm the baked goods are delish… the sticky buns alone are worth the trip.
Milk & Cookies by Tina Casaceli! I love to bake cookies and I’m in desperate need of new recipes.
I’d dig right in to “Joy the Baker Cookbook” by Joy Wilson. It was the subtitle that sold me: “A Celebration of Butter and Sugar”. Yes, please!
Decisions, decisions…I would definitely start with the hand-forged donuts cookbook! Yummm…
Marshmellow Madness or Sugar Baby. I have been wanting to try making stuff like this and just haven’t taken that step yet. :)
Sugar Baby and push up pops
It is hard to choose. I think I would want Sweet Auburn Desserts.
Les Petits Macarons — and if I don’t win, I will definitely be ordering this one from Amazon.
Sugarbaby looks amazing!!! Delicate and sinfully sweet!
Flour! I went to the bakery in Boston and have been lusting after that cookbook ever since.
Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book!
I would absolutely need the Handheld Pies! We always make pies for special occasions instead of cakes!
The Cookiepedia looks amazing, and most of my family likes cookies. (They’re not so much interested in other desserts that I can make. Weird, I know.)
Oh man, definitely Handheld Pies! Pie is my favorite but with just me and The Boy, a whole one always seems too excessive
Macarons are next on my things to try list so it would have to be the Macarons book, and Sugarlicious, because i love her blog.
Hand-forged Doughnuts – YUM!!
Tartine Bread! YUM!
I would love all of them, but then I think my cookbook collection might be more than my husband could handle. :) I would really love Joy the Baker and The Pioneer Woman, I follow both of them and would love to make more of their recipes!
Wow. All of those looks awesome. It’s really hard to decide which one to start with by I’d choose The Sugar Cube by Kir Jensen with Danielle Centoni
I would definitely bake from the Home baked comfort book first since you said you see yourself baking most of the recipes there. I’d like to find more staple recipes for myself and that books seems like the way to go.
Sugar Baby! I learned how to make salt crystals in a high school science class, and I keep meaning to use the same principle to make rock candy with my kids. It’s one of those “someday” projects.
I still don’t have the Pioneer Woman cookbook. I’d definitely get that. The others look heavenly too – lots of yummy pics.
tartine!!
Tartine!! I haven’t worked with yeast either, but I love bread.
Handheld pies. My mother bakes the most delicious little pies and tarts. Especially when the blackberries are on and they are all over their property. Mmmmm! All you need is a little chantilly cream and you’re set!
Sugarbaby ! I’ve been eyeballing it for quite some time now ^ – ^
Marshmallow Madness!
I love marshmallows of any kind particularly homemade ones so that would be the book I would like to try.
I LOVE COOKBOOKS!!!!! I would definitely pick The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier by Ree Drummond.
Love to watch her show on tv too.
I’ve been on a bit of an ice cream kick lately, so probably Jeni’s.
Joy the Baker – The chilli Fries CAUGHT my eye.
They all look so awesome!
Tartine Bread, definitely. I’m a breadaholic!
aaarrrggghhhh!! why must i choose?!?!?!? i want them all!! i ‘spose i have to go with sugarbaby, just because it says “and above all: don’t poke hot caramel” and that made me giggle :)
i have a thing for macarons… so the choice was simple! Les Petits Macarons by Kathryn Gordon and Anne McBride. Althoigh having never made them before I would find it a little intimidating. :)
Oh my!! I dont know how you could ever leave the house with all those great books to drool over!!! lol
I would definitely have to start with “The Handforged Donut” I love to make them and I make them, and deliver them to the senior citizens groups in town every week. Many of the older folks dont get the home baked goodies any more and they soo appreciate them!
Marshmallow Madness!
Now that’s something I haven’t had enough experience with.
All of these books look great but my top pick would be The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier!
All of them!!! Although, I’d probably start with Sugarlicious or The Cookiepedia.
I vote for Doughnuts – those look amazing!
oh do i have to pick just one:) They all look fabulous and you’ve re-energized me to go look thru all the yummy books I have with fresh eyes!! The marshmallow book you listed looks to die for.
Definitely the Back in the Day bakery cookbook. And I think I need to visit the bakery as well.
The Back in the Day Bakery sounds fun to me. I love anything nostalgic so I think it would be right up my alley.
Sugarbaby! Those cotton candy looking treats look perfect for a party!
AWWWWW!!!! Have to choose just one? The pictures are making me hungry! I love Ree’s website and blog so I choose Pioneer Woman Cooks. I want to get her books as well, her recipes look yummy. The Sweet Auburn Desserts is a very very close second. Love that picture! Its not perfect but it looks perfect to eat! Scrumptious! ;-)
I always love the stuff Ree posts so I’d be interested in Pioneer Woman Cooks!
ooh! Back in the Day looks like a fun cookbook!
I think I’m the last one in the world who doesn’t own Ree or Joy’s book. I’m moving soon, so I’m trying not to accumulate clutter! But as soon as I’m settled, I’m ordering! :)
It’d be a toss up between Home Baked Comfort and The Pioneer Woman’s cookbook.
I am enjoying Back In The Day Bakery! Everything I have tried has turned out beautifully and is so so goooood! I attended one of Cheryl’s cooking classes and she and Griff are awesome.
I would probably start with handheld pies or the Pioneer woman´s book
Oh My Goodness!!! I am not sure I can concentrate on work after looking at those summaries and pictures! I own Sugarlicious and it is wonderful, free new ideas with detailed instructions.
I would love to peruse through:
1. Tartine Bread because my husband I like to make bread together.
2. The Cookiepedia and Milk and Cookies books because my son is exploring his inner baker and would love to make cookies with me.
3. Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home, I purchased an ice cream maker a couple of months ago and would love some knew recipes to sample.
4. Home Baked Comfort because I am a comfort food junkie and would LOVE comfort food bakery items at my house.
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Handheld Pies looks amazing!
Marshmallow Madness since i make my own marshmallows all the time, would love to see what other recipes there are!
I’d have to close my eyes and pick one randomly, and then pick the next , then the next and so on….until I’ve baked from all of the books, its hard to decide with so many great recipes.
The Sugar Cube looks amazing!
Marshmallow Madness looks sweet! I’ve never made marshmallows, but it sounds like a sticky mess waiting to happen in my kitchen :)
home baked comfort !!
I LOVE cookbooks…any, all, just love them! Hard choice, but I would love the Divvies one due to my own peanut allergy, the one on push up pops, and sugarlicious because I’m always trying to find fun things for my kids.
Les petits macarons, my daughter loves these! However, I would love to try them ALL!!! I love cookbooks
Thank you!
That Marshmallow Madness book looks droolworthy. I want to make marshmallows so much!
Ultimate cookies…I need to learn more about cookies
I love the Sugar baby so I would probably use that first
I love the Sugar baby so I would probably use that first
Oh wow! What a collection! It’s hard to just pick one, but I think I would go with the push up pop book. It looks like it’d be so fun and I think that my family would love something different like that. They’d probably be great for the Summer, especially with cook outs!
I love Joy’s website, so I think I would try Joy the Baker’s cookbook first.
It’s so hard to choose just one, but I do love the Push-Up Pops! I think it’s such a cute and innovative way to spice up desserts. Thank you for this giveaway!!
They all look delicious but I think the kids & I would particularly have a blast with sugarbaby or maybe Sugarlicious to add some variety to our basic baking and kitchen projects over the summer. Cotton candy or rock candy? I may never get them to leave me alone in the kitchen again! :)
Now that’s my kind of reading! :-) I’d start with Joy’s book.
Milk & Cookies looks awesome but Pie it Forward and Handheld Pies are probably going to be the first I buy. Now if I only had more time to bake…
I would love to get the Pioneer Woman Cookbook!
milk & cookies!
I adore the Flour cookbook. It has never done me wrong. The Snickerdoodles and Ginger Molasses cookies have won me some friends,and my dog loves the dog bones so much that I have to make them smaller so she doesn’t hide them in the couch with her favorite toys. I love how educational and personal it is. Knowing how long I should be creaming my sugar and butter and letting my cookie dough sit in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours has transformed my baking. I’ll stop raving now :).
I would love the Marshmallow Madness! I have been thinking about trying homemade marshmallows for a long time now. Having this book would motivate me to get creative!!
I would start with Tartine Bread! Yeast is somewhat intimidating to me, but I would love to know how to impress family and guests with freshly baked bread :)
All those books look amazing! The Handheld pies looks interesting!
The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook, anything with bacon has got to be WONDERFUL!
Too many delicious one to choose from…..here is the ones I would love to add to my collection…..Petit Macarons, Sugarlicious, Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook, Marshmallow Madness, and Pie it Forward.
This is such a tough decision. They all seem to have my mouth watering. However, if I really, truly had to narrow it down to just three I would have to pick “Sweet Auburn Desserts”, “Milk & Cookies” and last but not least, “Flour”.
Toss-up between Cookiepedia (love that it lays flat) & Milk & Cookies (furtively dunking cookies in milk with my Dad behind my mothers back is a favorite childhood memory of mine)
Les Petits Macarons…. I am a sucker for these little cookies!
I would choose Hand Forged Doughnuts and The Cookiepedia! I would looooove to know how to make cookies at home!
I would start with Marshmallow Madness! I love marshmallows and the book looks so fun!
I saw the first book and immediately wanted to bake from Tartine Bread. But then as I scrolled down further each subsequent book caught my attention and I easily forgot about the previous one. I had to go back and look through each one.
If I had to choose though it would probably be Hand-Forged Doughnuts, even though I am not in possession of a deep fryer. Hmmm…doughnuts sound divine with my morning tea now :)
Oh my goodness, how could a person pick just one! But if I had to choose I think I would go with Sugar Cube.
Joy the baker! Love her blog..thank you
Joy the Baker is my faves! I want to be her BFF so badly.
The Back in The Day Bakery Cookbook or Pie it Forward.
I just got Pioneer Woman’s cookbook yesterday, can’t wait to get started. I’d also like to try those Push Up Pops!
I can’t WAIT to get my hands on Joy the Baker’s book, but this was a great list and now I have a few more additions to the wishlist. That handpie book has my name on it!
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream at Home! It’s the PERFECT weather for ice cream :)
Definately try the handheld pie book…Mother’s Day is coming and a group of different handheld pies would be great….you should start there!!
Wow! Thanks for the list of new books to pursue! I’d love to get my hands on Milk & Cookies and Marshmallow Madness first :)
FLOUR! I went there once on a trip to Boston and haven’t been able to forget about that banana bread ever since… Thanks for the giveaway.
Sweet Auburn Desserts is calling my name. The cake:filling ratio is perfection to me.
Wow! Marshmallow Madness! Thanx!
Definitely Flour. Those desserts look delicious!
No wonder you own all these! It is hard to decide. I think “Back in the Day” because I love their photo on the cover.
Joy the Baker Cookbook! Although so many good choices.
We have to decide ONE! Oh my! I’m in an experimental phase right now so the Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home is one of the top, along with the Marshmallow book and the macaron book….remember I’m being brave and experiementing. Though “Back in the Day” looks absolutely wonderful. Thanks for posting links to so many wonderful books. Pat
That bread book looks awesome. This is going to be my summer of bread baking so I could use that book!
Either Pie It Forward or Handheld Pies. I love pie!
I would love Marshmallow Madness! I enjoy making marshmallows, so the chance to learn new techniques (and flavors) would be wonderful!
Flour looks so good, and so does The Pioneer Woman. What a hard choice!
Sugar Baby and Marshmallow Madness…….i am going MAD for both of them right now!!!! luv your site bakerella
You have an amazing collection and I can definitely understand why you it’s so hard to choose! I think I’d start with the push up pops one mainly because it’s something different and fun. I think they’d be great for the coming Summer, especially because they look easy to handle!
Les Petits Macarons by Kathryn Gordon and Anne McBride for sure. Beautiful.
The Pie it Forward cookback looks amazing…. :)
OMG – Hand Forged Donuts for sure! The photos are beautiful and they’re of donuts – sigh!
I love all of these! I would start with Joy the Baker and Handheld Pies though.
It’sa very hard decision but I think I would pick Handheld Pies.
All the books look fabulous, but I would probably start with the Milk and Cookies cookbook.
Hm, I’ve never made my own marshmallows. Would live to try something from Marshmallow Madness. :)
I’ve had my eye on ‘sugarbaby’ for a long time but after seeing the cover for ‘marshmallow madness’ I’m switching to which book I’d rather have in my hands at the moment! Looks sweet and delicious!
I cant pick just one, but I think i will start with milk & cookies, just the name of the book makes me want to buy it!
also Ultimate Cookies looks fabulous!
its hard to pick one!
I want them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
flour… i’ve been wanting to make the brioche!
For me it would by Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts because I have been craving doughnuts lately!
Pioneer Woman (big fan of hers) and Sugar Baby (I am intrigued with the idea of making homemade rock candy)!
I would love to check out the sugar cube book.
I would pick Home Baked Comfort. But they all look wonderful!
This is a hard decision but I would Sugarlicious : 50 cute and clever treats for every occasion by:Meaghan Mountford. or Jeni’s splendid ice creams at home by:Jeni Britton Bauer. Which I just requested from the library!
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams! I recently bought it and haven’t had a chance to make any of them yet, I’d be interested to see what you make!
Home baked comfort!
The Back in the Day cookbook looks so cute! I’d like to try that one out!
I’ve been wanting to get Flour for awhile!!
The pie one looks divine, but so does the push up one!
Just ordered Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home. Can’t wait for it to arrive! Yum, yum, yum!
I’m not a pie person, but the Handheld Pies book is intriguing. I would start with that one!
I think I would choose Hand Forged Doughnuts…or maybe Jen’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home….Wow what a hard decision! :)
+ Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home
+ The Divvies Bakery Cookbook
+ Joy the Baker Cookbook
This is such a great list!!
Always wanted to try these, Push-Up Pops! Thank You!
Handheld Pies, Tartine Bread, Home Baked Comfort and Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts. All in that order :)
Handheld Pies! I’m with you on anything tiny!
sugar cube looks like such fun
I would choose the pioneer woman because I have been eyeing that cookbook forever.
Hand Forged Doughnuts for sure.
I would have to choose Joy the Baker as I have been following her for a while and everything looks scrumptious!
My grandson loves marshmallows so it has to be Marshmallow Madness
All of the books look pretty amazing, but I think I’d start with the Handheld Pies book! Thanks for sharing all of these great books.
Marshmallow Madness, Joy the Baker, and Pioneer Woman. I just love cookbooks!
Milk and Cookies looks awesome and certainly one I will be looking for! Already have Ree’s second book and it’s just as awesome as the 1st!
Pie it Forward!!
Definately Pie it Forward! I’m on a pie kick. lol
Flour, Milk and Cookies, Pioneer Woman- hard to choose!
Joy the Baker .. I follow her blog and end up bookmarking everything for future reference. Would be great if I had the actual book to keep in my kitchen for instant inspiration.
Sweet Auburns, Pioneer Woman, Divvies, Handheld Pies and Macarons! I’m glad you didn’t say to just pick one! They’re all enticing!
I Love Candy, Sugar Baby!!
Tartine Bread, I’m dying for this book!!!
The Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book and Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home! Just in time for summer!
Sugar Baby!! I love all cook book though!
The Eclairs on the front of the ‘Flour’ book look pretty appetizing to me! I suppose that would be my pick!
I want to get the Joy the Baker cookbook. I’ve enjoyed her blog for a long time and would like to read her book.
That Cookiepedia is calling my naaaaaame!
I would definitely want to make the push-pops first. They’re fun, cute and little – perfect for a party! Everyone could try different ones. More importantly, they probably make people feel less guilty about eating sweets :)
I would love to bake something from The Pioneer Woman,
and then I would move on to the marshmallow book. I love making marshmallow!! But everything looks so tempting its really hard to choose. I think I just need to go to bake camp!
Such an amazing post! I want all of these :)
As I’ve been mastering my ice cream making skills lately I’d start off with Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. I’m so inspired by this book!
I would use the Back in the Day Bakery, they were on Paula Deen, so you know it’s gotta be good, ya’ll.
The hand-held pies. I have kids constantly in and out – it’d be awesome for those grab-and-eat-on-the-way-to-(insert class/club/sport here).
1st one to try would be push up pops……..then all the others. Such a great list of books. Thanks Bakerella!
I would pick Flour, simply for the Gooey Sticky Buns. Yum Yum
Pie It Forward…can’t get enough pie.
I’ve wanted the marshmallow book since I first saw it. How fun is that? I LOVE marshmallows!
I’d want to cook from Sweet Auburn Desserts. I have never heard of stacking cakes like that and it looks super easy (much easier than having to level off your cakes).
So hard to choose!! I would have to narrow it down to macrons, push up pops and the splendid ice creams at home.
Marshmallow madness! I just made marshmallows for the first time this weekend. I was shocked how easy it was. I can’t wait to play and make more flavors!
Thanks for all the great book advice!
I want them all! Top on my list would be Handheld Pies and the Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook.
Pioneer Woman, with Back in the Day running a close second. Thanks for sponsoring the giveaway!
Milk and Cookies looks delish! Too many good books to choose from :)
joy the baker!
ultimate cookies book
This is a great giveaway! I would love to read the cookbook by Joy the Baker. Love her blog.
They all look amazing but I would have to choose Home
Baked Comfort.
push up pops please
I bake from flour all the time, it’s amazing. Joanna Chang is my hero!!!!!
I have several of these on my wishlist but Flour and the one about Sugar are my favourites!
Ultimate Cookies looks so much fun to bake from!!
I can’t wait to try out the new Pioneer Woman cookbook!!!
Can’t choose. Need them all. Except maybe the bread book. I don’t bake a lot of bread. But I could start…;)
Yum! They all look great. My friends have been raving about Pioneer Woman so I’d likely start there.
Oh my gosh! A book all about Marshmallows?! I LOVE it already!
Sugarlicious looks sooo cute! or Milk and Cookies – just traditional yummy sweets :)
I would love The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier and Joy the Baker.
What a decision to make!! I couldn’t narrow it down to just one, so Handheld Pies was a must because I am always baking for large family events and they all love pie and The Back in the Day Bakery! The Day’s are just too cute!
I just made Ree’s cauliflower soup last night for dinner. It was really good…my husband commented that he never thought he would like cauliflower soup but it was good!
I would definitely pick up some sweet books!
That is a very impressive stack of books! Can I come over and help?? Ha! I would start with Pioneer Woman. But that Milk and cookies book and the Marshmallow Madness book are tied for 2nd!! Have fun!
I would get the marshmallow book and the one about cooking with sugar. Although they all look fabulous!! Made some homemade marshmallows right after Christmas…and they are to die for. Nothing like the ones you buy at the store!!! And so easy – who knew?!?
Yum! They all look so good, but I would have to start with Marshmallow Madness.
Definitely the bread book! Nothing better than the smell of freshly baked bread! Yeast is very scary though…. A well written book with lots of pretty pictures for inspiration might help.
Push-Up Pops by Courtney Dial Whitmore- this one will be helpful to the waist line by acting as a portion control:)
Sugarlicious by Meaghan Mountford- this one is so creative! My little girl and I would have a great time making goodies together. I just ordered this one and can’t wait to get it!
I love the Pioneer woman! Also I like the Joy the Baker book. Actually, They all looked pretty good to me!
Sweet Auburn Desserts look fabulous!
It is a toss up between Sugar Baby, that home made cotton candy looks scrumptious, and Pioneer Woman Cooks, everything she makes is to die for!
I probably shouldn`t enter… because if I won, I wouldn`t know which books to pick!
Definitely need to include the Milk and Cookies and Joy the Baker books — and I too need to get over my fear of Macaroons, so les Petits should make its way to my shelf, too!
I have some of the books shown – but would love to try some recipes in the “Milk and Cookies” book!
oh my I’d drool over any but let’s say Home Baked Comfort and pleeease keep up the awesomely wonderful emails and review books like this whenever you can!!
Oh boy…this post makes me want to go home and bake right.now. So many choices, but my first choice would be Les Petite Macaroons because I have yet to be successful. I will conquer to macaroon some day soon. But I have to say, Joy’s book is amazing. Try the blueberry oatmeal smoothie. Yuuum.
I think that Flour is one of the best cookbooks Of course, I love the bakery too!!
The Pioneer Woman – I love her recipes!
Milk and Cookies and Pie it Forward!
Based on pictures alone it would be “Handheld Pies”. Based on content, it would be Macarons. Those are my current nemisis.
Milk & Cookies… that’s my favorite snack!