2013 cookbook gift guide

A collection of cookbooks I’d love to add to our collection – you’re sure to find the perfect new cookbook for the baker on your list.

1. Sprinkles!: Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts – Dozens of creative, colorful, super-fun recipes, plus quick-and-easy projects (ideal for little kids), holiday treats, and party-perfect edible gifts.
2. Butter Baked Goods: Nostalgic Recipes From a Little Neighborhood Bakery – Recipes for the classics, rich in the nostalgic flavors of your childhood: from Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies, Cinny Buns and S’mores; to Classic Chocolate Cake, Lemon Meringue Cupcakes and Good Ol’ Apple Pie.
3. The Sweet Book of Candy Making – More than 50 recipes for sugar candies, fondant, caramels, toffee, fudge, truffles, chocolates, marshmallows, and fruit and nut candies.
4. One Bowl Baking: Simple, From Scratch Recipes for Delicious Desserts – In this one-of-a-kind recipe collection, Yvonne shows how to create beautiful, delicious, and wholesome desserts from scratch using just one bowl. No mixer, no food processor. It’s for anyone looking for the ease and convenience of box mix baking, but with quality ingredients and gourmet results.
5. Tartine Book No. 3 – Robertson shares his groundbreaking new methods of bread baking including new techniques for whole-grain loaves, as well as porridge breads and loaves made with sprouted grains. This book also revisits the iconic Tartine Bakery pastry recipes, reformulating them to include whole grains, nut milks, and alternative sweeteners.
6. MACARONS – Pierre Herme’ is universally acknowledged as the king of French pastry with shops in Tokyo, Paris and London.  Now for the first time, all the macaron recipes from this most celebrated French patissier are published in English.
7. Better Homes and Gardens Baking: More than 350 Recipes Plus Tips and Techniques – This all-new and gorgeous edition of Better Homes and Gardens Baking (the first major all-purpose BH&G baking title published since 1998) is a compendium of irresistible cookies, brownies, cakes, pies, cobblers, pastries, and breads—from everyday sweets to special-occasion show-stoppers.
8. The Southern Pie Book – Jan shares her collection of pies, tarts, cobblers, and more that have been perfected in her own Dreamcakes Bakery. Over 150 recipes are included with gorgeous full-color images all in clearly defined categories so readers can easily navigate this book to find the recipes that inspire them.
9. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays: 140 Step-by-Step Recipes for Simple, Scrumptious Celebrations – Ree shows you how to ring in your favorite holidays with inspired menus for breakfasts, brunches, lunches, dinners, parties, deliveries, and feasts, accompanied by fun instructions and hundreds of her signature step-by-step photos.