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.
so many choices….so little time…but if I had to choose, it would be Milk and Cookies…Yeah!
Marshmallow Madness. I am obsessed with making my own marshmallows now!!
Tartine bread and Les petits macarons! I love cookbooks :)
the tartine bread book, for sure!
Sugar baby!!! Want to try cooking with sugar not baking:)
The macaron one. If you can believe it, I’ve never had one…
I have some of these but Flour is at the top of the list. I saw the author beat Bobby Flay on Throwdown with her sticky buns – who doesn’t want a sticky bun???
The The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook. It looks amazing. But really, I’d just do a recipe a day from them all! And die of happiness.
I would like to try making macarons from Les Petit Macarons. Then I would have to try any recipe from The Pioneer Woman.
Pioneer Woman..really want to do Sugar Baby but don’t want to kill the husband..he got the Sugars (Diabetes)
I would love to have all of the wonderful books but my favorite to start with would be Ultimate Cookies….
Pioneer Woman cookbook!
Since I’m still a student and exams are coming up, I’m totally going for the ‘homemade’ comfort’… might be useful in the next weeks
Wow! That is a very tough question. Each and every one of these books gets your head spinning. Lee Drummond is a staple in my kitchen. I think I would love to try my hand at Marshmallows. So now I need to oeder a new book shelve!
I’m dying to cook from Flour (which I don’t have yet). I *do* have Jeni’s though and her recipes are fantastic!!! Happy cookbooking!!
“Home Baked Comfort” is on my list! Love Joy’s book, too
I was convinced I needed one of the ice cream books, but with Nutella tarts, I think flour would be my pick!
That is such a tough decision – Home Baked Comfort looks delightful and so does Flour. I think I might be craving some sweets this morning!
The first one I’d be interested in is the Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book. I love ice cream, and I love making ice cream!
Les Petits Macarons
I would dive into Cookiepedia first! I LOVE cookies!
You had me at Handheld Pie
Flour or pie it forward!! Oh but so many delicious choices it would really be hard to decide! Yummy!
I ADORE Joy the Baker! Just got her cookbook & I’m already planning out my kitchen schedule for the weekend!
They all look amazing but I love marshmallows so I’d pick Marshmallows Madness!
Push up Pops for sure! My kids and I would have a ball with that one :)
I can’t get over the handheld pies!
You had me at Nutella Tarts! Flour!!
Joy the Baker, Milk & Cookies, and the Cookipedia – actually, I’d have a hard time choosing!!!
Oh, definitely experiment with some of the cookies and with the sugar!
Beeing from Boston, I got to root for FLOUR! It is an amazing bakery and I love it there! The others do look fantastic too! Yummy my friend made the carrot cake for me as a bday present-wonderful & tasty!
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home! It’s heating up in Denver, and I’m so intrigued by her no-egg methodology. Plus, ice cream. Yum!
seriously, so many great choices! either joy the baker or jeni’s splendid ice creams :)
I have a bunch of these and I can tell you Flour is awesome. Absolutely wonderful. Everything I have made from it has been fabulous.
I have the Pioneer Woman’s cookbook and I have made a couple recipes from it. I LOVE it! The Sugar Cube books looks super cute too! I would LOVE to try a recipe from that book!
Let’s just start with Bread, then Joy the Baker and Milk and cookies… a whole day of wonderful food…
Ooooh, so hard to choose…I narrowed it down to a top 3. Tartine Bread, Handheld Pies, and Home Baked Comfort. I just wish I had the staple ingredients…guess I better go shopping!
I’d love to try the book Home Baked Comfort…but they all look awesome!
Tough one, but I think it would have to be “flour”. It looks too, too good!
I am torn between “Sugar Baby” and “Les Petits Macarons”
Choose only one??? Too hard! Maybe…Flour…simple title, delicious cover art. What fun to know you can sit down and peruse the pages of these lovely books whenever you get a free moment.
Since coveting is a sin, I should not have looked at your site today. :) I’m gonna go with the push pops first. Those all look so cute!
Marshmallow Madness! I’ve never made marshmallows, they look sooo good.
I would first bake from the book from Savannah, GA because I love, love, love Savannah! Any food from there is a treat!!! It’s Back in the Day Bakery.
Tartine Bread. I started baking bread last year, beginning with some no-knead and almost-no-knead recipes and eventually venturing into sourdoughs. I’ve put the baking on hiatus recently, but plan to get back to it as soon as time allows.
I’m also a big fan of Joanne Chang’s Flour cookbook. Love the Chunky Lola cookies and my daughter still talks about the “Oreos” I made more than a year ago.
Pioneer Woman! Her recipes have never failed me :)
Sugar Baby! I would LOVE to learn how to make rock candy for my little boy’s birthday favors!
Ohh- I love the cooking with sugar one…my nephews have been bugging me for a cotton candy maker…looks like there might be a couple of recipes in there….need to check it out
Just 3 little words…Home Baked Comfort. Those 3 words, whether said together or by themselves, invoke a warm feeling in the tummy and heart…just like home baked comfort food. :)
I’m fascinated by the marshmallow book: how utterly sweet it looks!
I have baked from Flour, made ice cream from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home and made the country load bread from Tartine bread. Next I would love to tackle the Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book! I live relatively close to the place but still have yet to pay them a visit :/
I love macarons. I hate macarons. I have not been able to conquer them, so of course, to keep this dysfunctional cycle of emotional turmoil going, I’ll have to say that Les Petits Macarons would be the first book I’d grab to bake from. Hands down.
Since I already have Flour, I’ll say The Pioneer Woman Cooks!
I’ve had my eye on The Sugar Cube for a while now, so that’s my first choice….but The Cookiepedia looks interesting, too~
I think,judging from what you wrote, you should start out with the Back in the Day…but, go visit them as well.Not too bad of a ride but it will be enjoyable as well..go ahead, you deserve it! I also live in Ga., south of the city….I know from here it’s only approx. a 3 1/2 – 4 hour drive….or a 35 minute flight! Enjoy and have a blast while doing so.
It’s really hot here and those ice cream books are making me DROOL! The photos in Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home, I have to say, are really tempting! Do you have an ice cream maker (or the ice cream attachment for your Kitchen-Aid mixer)? Homemade ice cream is the best!
Julia M. Usher’s Ultimate Cookies for sure!
Definitely Back in the Day Bakery cookbook! Bacon jam empanadas? My husband would be in bacon jam empanada heaven ;)
Love Flour Baking Book! Every recipe is a winner!
Flour hands down is my go to book
I’d have to say The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier by Ree Drummond!! I am still in awe of the amazing cinnamon roll recipe I made from her first book! Also, I enjoyed perusing your stack of cookbooks – thanks for sharing!! Quite a few on my “must-have” list now!!
Definitely the Back in the Day cookbook. How charming the cover is!
oooh I cant decide between Pioneer woman or Joy the baker!!!
I’m from Portland, so I’d trek down to that food cart and then try The Sugar Cube book. Or the ice cream one. Too hard to choose.
Let’s see…Joy the Baker. No wait, Milk & Cookies. But wait, who could pass up Sweet Auburn Desserts? Oh well, why not one of each???
hand held pies for starters…..
Thanks!
Oh my, they all look so amazing. I think I’d choose Joy the Baker or the Milk & Cookies book to cook from first. Good luck choosing!
Home Baked Comfort would be my first choice….but they all look wonderful!
i’d probably start with tartine given the fact that i have been secretly drooling over freshly baked bread but, at the same time, scared of going near yeast-related recipes! saw the preview at amazon and find that it’s pretty much straightforwards and very informative! me gusta!
sugar baby or marshmallow madness!
Pioneer Woman & Joy the Baker for me! They are my favs!
I think I need quite a few of these! I’d start with Les Petits Macarons and Handheld Pies – I’m a sucker for both of those things lately.
I would definitely want Pioneer Woman Cooks. I just started watching her show (that comes on, on Saturday mornings) about a month ago and I am hooked. She makes the yummiest foods and they seem really simple. Because of her, my next project to tackle is creme brulee….. I have a long, long, long, Amazon.com wish list and her book is on it!!!!!! :0)
they all look amazing, but the strawberry shortcake on the “push up pops” book is calling my name
I would love to see you start with Sugar Baby. I am a little scared to do things with hot sugar, would love to get your insight on it before I try it myself!
I think Pioneer Woman’s recipe book; love her site & any recipe I’ve tried of hers has been AMAZING. Thanks for this quick overview; I hadn’t heard of many of these books before!
Mine would have to be the Ultimate Cookies. It looks like a sugar fairytale!
The push up pops book or the macarons one because I’ve always wanted to try my hand and making some.
You’re so talented, you could bake from any of these and put your own twist on it, so I think “Flour” gets my vote for the cookbook to use this time.
Thanks, B ~ !
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Sugar Baby is calling out to me…
Back in the Day looks really fun as do ALL the others!
The Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book looks awesome! Who can resist recipes like that??
So many to choose from! Haven’t heard of the “Back in the Day” couple. They look like fun!
Oh man, sooo hard to choose….
To begin with…. :-)
The Divvies Bakery Cookbook
Les Petits Macarons
Sugarlicious
Oh man, I don’t own any of these…guess that’s what happens when you have to spend your money on things like textbooks. I think I’d go with the Top Pot doughnuts because I’ve always wanted to try making doughnuts, but I’m a little intimidated. And I’ve been to Top Pot so I know theirs are delicious!
Gotta go with Les Petits Macarons. They look like a project that would go pretty quick, and then onto another cookbook.
Oh man, that’s a hard decision. They all look so great! I think I’d start with Milk and Cookies. Theres just something so yummy and comforting about a fresh baked delicious cooke with a glass of milk.
Back in the day cookbook. Sound yummy!
Hand Forged Doughnuts for sure!
I would go for Tartine Bread! Homemade bread can be so delicious!
Les Petits Macarons! I’ve always wanted to make them for myself.
I already have the Joy the Baker book and it’s amazing!!! So second would either be the milk and cookies book or the Tartine Bread one! Now I just want to get in the kitchen and cook!
Oh my…where to begin! I think I would start with the Handheld Pies cookbook because I’m a little obsessed with the Startbucks mini apple pies right now. Then I would move on to the Cookiepedia cookbook! They all look so tempting!
Being a Seattle girl I’ve gotta keep it local and say the Top Pot Donuts book! Although all of them look amazing!!
I want Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream book…been wanting to get an ice cream machine and this seems like the best excuse to get one!
It would have to be the ice cream books. I’ve been tinkering with ice cream recipes for s few years now and have a dream about my own ice cream food truck one day.
my favorite is the sugar cube! I love that it’s a food cart in Portland. The recipes sound so creative!
As a person who currently resides in Columbus, I have to go with Jeni’s ice cream. Particularly if they have Wildberry Lavender in the book. Oh man… that stuff is the BEST!
It’s so hard to choose! I feel like a kid in a candy store just looking at them all. I probably would pick up the *The Sugar Cube* first, as it’s from Portland Ore. My home state. It always fabulous to see someone from my home state to do well. It makes me feel like I still have that connection. But then there is *Flour* and the back in the day book and the macaroon one, OMG! So many to choose from…. I want them all….
Would love to master macaron making, from “Les Petites Macarons”. These are like clouds full of flavor in your mouth!
Wow… So many to try, but I think I would wanna try “Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts”! I love me something yeasty!
OMG…. They all look amazing, but I’ll choose PIE IT FORWARD!!
This is really hard. Either Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams OR Joy the Baker.
I’d love to try “Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams” especially since the warm months are coming!
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home! I need some new recipes for my ice cream maker.
I choose Joy the Baker- love the front cover quote about butter and sugar!
I would love to read ALL of them!! They are all very tempting; however, The Sugar Cube has got me intrigued. I would start with that book… the chocolate dipped, caramel drizzled, potato chip cupcake… to be specific!
Wow! Talk about a tough choice. I want to bake from all of them!
I already have the back in the day one which i love! but the williams sonoma home baked comfort book looks pretty great! i would love to read that
how are you going to make me choose between joy, humphrey slocombe, top pot, hand-held pies and sugar cube? obviously, I need them all.
Those pictures from “flour” about kill me. That one. Although I do love the Pioneer Woman’s recipes too. Ack. All of them.
I must have “The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook” just because of the name and the cover and the cuteness of the people on the cover. Adorable!
I’ve been baking from Joy The Baker’s book since the moment it landed on my doorstep! And I’m dying to make something from Marshmallow Madness and Sugar Baby but I’m still conquering my fear of hot sugar. Right now I’m counting the days until Smitten Kitchen’s cookbook comes out in the Fall.
Flour! That place looks amazing
This is is so hard!!! but I would go for this two Sweet Auburn Desserts and Marshmallow Madness I been though I would love to own Pioneer Woman..
I own two of the books you mentioned and many of the others are on my “to buy” list! I would love to bake something from ” Pie It Forward”.
I’ve been wanting “Flour” by Joanne Chang for a long time – so, baking something from it would have to be first on my list!
I’d love to make something from The Pioneer Woman’s cookbook! I follow her website almost as much as I follow yours!
Food From My Frontier.
I love Pioneer Woman Cooks!
Thanks Bakerella!
It has to be “Flour” — after three readings of this list, I keep coming back to “Nutella tarts, chocolate brioche, and brown sugar popovers”. Oh come on please. How can I stay here, at work, in an office, far from my aprons and oven, now that I’ve read THAT?!?! :)
“Nutella tarts, chocolate brioche, and brown sugar popovers”… Oh My!!
Nom nom nom nom nom…..
Sugar Baby!! I can just see you thinking outside the box with these recipes :)
Joy the Baker and Pie it Forward
The ultimate cookie book, sugarlicious and marshmallow madness are all calling my name. What a wonderful baking library you have!!!
Handheld Pies….yum. I want to make handheld pies!
Sugar Baby!
Thank you Angie!!
Handheld Pies….love it!
Oooooo….. I’d love to Pie it Forward! I love Gesine and she is super nice. She’s helped me many times when I was trying to bake bread at high altitude. Her tricks and tips helped me bake the perfect french bread loaf!! I’d LOVE to get her new book!!
make some marshmallow madness goodness.
I think I would choose Les Petits Macarons and Milk&Cookies. ;)
Oh my gosh, I want them all! It’s down to a toss up Pioneer Woman’s Food from my Frontier and Cheryl & Griffith Day’s The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook. My son did a coin toss, Pioneer Woman’s was picked by the toss. Thanks for such an outstanding cookbook giveaway!
Milk and cookies!
For sure the Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts book.
Pie It Forward, for sure!
Oh my! So many to choose from. I’ve always wanted to try making sugar nests…maybe Gesine’s Sugar Baby? Handheld Pies looks amazing, too. Too many to pick just one!
Flour and Home Baked Comforts both look like books I’d really want to get into and bake from. But man, that was a tough choice to make! (I’d love to brave Hand-Forged Doughnuts but hot oil scares me!)
Do I have to pick just one? Well I guess I do so it would be Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book, because summer is right around the corner.
“back in the day bakery” cookbook for me! i am obsessed with all things vintage…food included!
I’d go with either Pioneer Woman or Joy the Baker. They’re already on my Amazon wish list, ready to go!
I would start with “The Cookie-pedia”. I love cookies, but the chocolate cookies I make always come out different! Some days they come out perfect, others, they look like warty, toads while most days they come out flat. They always taste good, they just always look different. I don’t change anything…it might be how long I mix each ingredient…hmm….
That Tartine Bread looks fantastic! And the Handheld Pies. Fun stuff!
Hand Forged Doughnuts definately!!
Pie it Forward and Push-Up Pops… I have Ree’s 1st & 2nd cookbook and Love THEM All!
I love Pioneer woman, I would pick, that one! Thanks for the giveaway!
Definitely the doughnut one for me. But I would take any of them for pictures alone.
The cover of Sweet Auburn Desserts is calling to me right now!
Oh my! My mouth is absolutely watering! They ALL look wonderful. I actually own Back In The Day Bakery. I think the one that calls out to me is “Flour”.
Handheld Pies, for sure, for sure – those things are just adorable – and so you!
They all looks so good but when I bake, it’s gotta be loaded with calories so the one that looked the sweetest to me was Flour by Joanne Chang with Christie Matheson
I saw at least on thing from each book that gave me cravings. I want all of them. Your photos have errupted my appetite.
Hand-forged doughnuts or marshmellow madness!!
And this was one of my most favorite posts of yours EVER!! I love cookbooks <3
Soo hard to decide! If there was enough space on my book-shelf I’d take ALL of them. If I had to choose just one it would be “Home Baked Comfort”. Just love this title!
I would have to go with Home Baked Comfort. I want to eat the cover.
FLOUR- it looks sooo good!
Ohmygoodness, I have been watching so many of these in the cooking section of my bookstore for sooo long! I would definitely have to choose Joy the Baker first, because I’ve been following her blog for ages and only don’t have her book yet because of my student-situation…but The Divvies Bakery Cookbook looks entirely intriguing too..and so does Pie it Forward…oh the choices!
Milk & Cookies by Tina Casaceli
Hand-forged donuts! Having a serious craving right now. :)
I would love to try the marshmallow book- my 2 boys would love that, especially with their hot chocolate :)
All of them!!! But mostly Handheld Pies and Sweet Auburn Desserts…and Flour…and…
Those push up pops look fun!!
I would definitely dive into Handheld Pies first… then flour. This post is making my mouth water! Need to stop by the bakery on my lunch break!
I would have to say Milk & Cookies and The Cookiepedia…I LOVE cookies!
Definitely macaron first! Sugarlicious would have been nice too :)
I have to pick Sweet Auburn Desserts. The picture on the cover is what sold me, Wow! Now i have an awful craving for sweets!
Home Baked Comfort by Kim Laidlaw
They all look fantastic but Sweet Auburn Desserts really stuck out to me. So bright and visually appealing – looks fantastic!
I’m such a sucker for bread. That Tartine Bread book looks AMAZING.
I would start with ‘flour’. you had me at chocolate brioche… :-)
they all look so good though.
I would want the Humphry Slocombe cookbook for sure- I want to use my ice cream maker daily!
The bread cookbook is calling my name… I love bread!! But the Flour one is also tempting me… hmm
Hello Bakerella!
Hmm that is such a difficult question!!! I think I would want Flour just because I have actually been to their stores and I loveee their stuff!!! But my next choice would be the doughnuts, they look divine and after all doughnuts are a weak spot for me. THEN it would be the hand held pie. I love eating pie, and having small proportions of them will enable me to eat multiple flavors:) Love the cook book selection in this post. Take care!!!
I will love to learn how to make macarons so I will bake from
Les Petits Macarons :)
Either the Ice Cream one, the Donut one, or the Pioneer Woman one. I want em all, though, really!
Milk and Cookies! I’m always looking for a another good cookie recipe.
Sugarlicious looks awesome! I know my daughter and nephew would have a blast helping make some of those recipes.
Pie it Forward by Gesine Bullock-Prado ….
I love updates on old classics, and EVERYONE LOVES PIE!
I’d go with Joy the Baker!
Push up pops!! :D
I would definately go for Les Petits Macarons!
Pie It Forward cause it’s pie, a great play on words and Gesine.
Thank you for sharing your library! My choices would be Sweet Auburn Desserts… the cover alone, had me drooling. Also would like to check out Sugar Cube, looks very cute!
I would love to get the Push Pops book, I’ve been wanting to try them for a while now…Next would probably be Pie it Forward…those pies on stick look adorable!…
So many to choose from but the one that caught my eye was Les Petite Macaron! I’ve attempted to make macarons several times but was never successful but if I get this book, I’m hoping that I’ll learn a new technique that will help with my macarons.
Wow — what amazing and beautiful books! I would start with Flour, then Sugar Cube, and pick a recipe a day from the others :) thanks for sharing your book collection– I’m sure this was just the tip of the iceberg of your collection.
Definitely the Les Petits Macarons book! I just took a baking class and now I’m obsessed with macarons!
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Wow, I want the Back in the Day Bakery and the Ultimate Cookie Cookbooks!!
Oh my goodness that is an awesome collection!! I just ordered Pioneer Womans 2nd cookbook and can’t wait till it comes but from those you pictured Hand Forged Doughnuts grabbed my attention. Yummy!
The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook – looks so cute!
I own both Ree’s book and Joy the Baker’s book. I’ve already made joy’s chocolate cream cheese icing and Ree’s Italian cream cake but I want to make the coffee one next!
ooh, what a great assortment! I would love to start with Marshmallow madness, Milk & cookies or Handheld pies. The list is so great I added the titles in my wishlist in goodreads so I can go and look at all of them in more depth. Thanks for a truly fabulous giveaway!
I was just home in Oklahoma City visiting my Mom (my all-time favorite baker :) ) and caught Pioneer Woman’s show where she was making my favorite comfort food drink — cherry limeade. I vowed to get those limes and cherries next time I’m at the store. So I’m rooting for Pioneer Woman’s book!
I am sure which ever one you choose will be wonderful. I’d like to sneak into your book stash.
The Push Up Pop book looks so fun!
Fan of the PW, and I love her sweet stuff just as much as the rest
Pioneer woman!
I would love to start with the donuts but since I’m 13 weeks into a kitchen renovation, all cooking and baking beyond the absolute necessities has been put on hold. I can’t wait to get started again. I’m afraid I’m going to get really fat just because I’ll be able to do so much again.
The peek into Julia Usher’s Ultimate Cookies makes me want to see more.
I already have Top Pot Donuts and Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream, so my wants from your stack are Handheld Pies, flour, humphry slocombe ice cream book, Milk & Cookies, Pie it Forward, Homebaked Comfort, and The Sugar Cube.
Ice cream book ;-) … Definately!
Gotta get my hands on Sugarlicious! Cute and easy is right up my alley. Can’t wait to bake.
I’m about to buy Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home – summer is coming! Thanks for the chance to win!