Baking

Sour Cherry and Sally Sheep’s Cheese Danishes
Sour Cherry and Sally Sheep's Cheese Danishes

Sour Cherry and Sally Sheep’s Cheese Danishes excerpted from Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond by Laurel Kratochvila. Photography by Malgosia Minta.

Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond by Laurel Kratochvila.New York Times Best Cookbook of 2025

“In Dobre Dobre, Laurel Kratochvila leads us down the gloriously buttery, poppy seed strewn path of modern and classic Polish baking. Ms. Kratochvila, who runs a bakery in Berlin, writes meticulous recipes that deliver impressive results.”
New York Times

Discover the vast and varied Polish baking tradition, old and new, Jewish and diasporic, in this authoritative collection of 120 plus recipes from James Beard Award finalist Laurel Kratochvila.

Poland’s distinctive baking culture is a product of its rich and complicated history, from the World Wars to the rise of Communism to the cultural exchange that inevitably comes with being a country with seven neighbors and generations of migration. Step into a Polish piekarnia or bakery and you are greeted by an abundance of tiny cookies and rugelach, decorative layer cakes and cheesecakes, sweet yeast buns and danishes, and hearty rye breads and sourdough loaves.

In this repertoire expanding baking book, American born, Berlin based baker and 2023 James Beard Award finalist Laurel Kratochvila brings you more than 120 familiar and inventive treasures. These include innovative recipes of her own as well as recipes from pioneering Polish bakers, such as:

  • Horseradish, Beet, and Summer Greens Bialys
  • Sunflower Rye Loaf
  • Plum Butter Carnival Donuts
  • Rano Piekarnia’s Summer Bilberry Buns
  • Chocolate and Whipped Cream Warsaw Cake
  • Karpatka also known as cream and choux cake
  • Soft Iced Toruń Gingerbread
  • Rose and Almond Jewel Rugelach
  • Twisted Krakow Bagels
  • Sauerkraut and Mushroom Rolls
  • And much more.

Vivid storytelling and fascinating historical details illuminate the significance behind each recipe. (more…)

Gingerbread Cake, Cranberry and Zabaione Trifle
Gingerbread Cake, Cranberry and Zabaione Trifle

Gingerbread Cake, Cranberry and Zabaione Trifle excerpted from The Christmas Companion: Simple Recipes and Creative Ideas for a Magical Festive Season. Used with the permission of the publisher, Bloomsbury. Text copyright © 2025 by Skye McAlpine, Photography copyright © 2025 by Skye McAlpine.

The Christmas Companion: Simple Recipes and Creative Ideas for a Magical Festive Season by Skye McAlpine

From beloved author Skye McAlpine, an all-things-Christmas cookbook and gifty guide to the perfect holiday, from hosting to roasting-and everything you need to spread cheer with the people you love.

From inimitable author Skye McAlpine, The Christmas Companion is a gorgeous wall-to-wall guide to an unfussy yet elegant Christmas to remember. With recipes both celebratory and deeply comforting that skew Italian, the book includes Christmas canon favorites like Ginger and Apricot Glazed Ham and Panettone Woodland Cake, edible gifts like Marzipan Fruits and Chocolate Salami, and fool­proof menus for every event-from two­-person romantic dinners to blowout cocktail parties or Christmas lunch for twenty. But like any holiday devotee, Skye knows the preparation is half the fun. In The Christmas Companion, she also gives her best tips for creating the perfect holiday space: guides to making Candy Cane Heart Ornaments and “playing Santa,” how to make your own Christmas crackers, and the most beautiful ways to decorate the Christmas table.

A highly giftable holiday treat, The Christmas Companion is sure to perennially spread Christmas cheer.

The Christmas Companion: Simple Recipes and Creative Ideas for a Magical Festive Season by Skye McAlpine is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.

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Caramelized Pumpkin Pie with Honey-Orange Whipped Cream
Caramelized Pumpkin Pie with Honey-Orange Whipped Cream

Caramelized Pumpkin Pie with Honey-Orange Whipped Cream excerpted from Milk Street Shorts: Recipes That Pack a Punch by Christopher Kimball. Photography by Joe Murphy.

Transform your home cooking with the smartest, simplest, most powerful recipes from the James Beard Award-winning team at Milk Street.

In the kitchen, brevity is brilliant. Short recipes are the ones cooks remember best—not only because they’re simple to make and easy to repeat, but because they are boiled down to their elemental beauty and charm.

In Milk Street Shorts, Christopher Kimball and his team of cooks and editors have developed a repertoire of nearly 150 genius recipes that are casual, improvisational, and fun. These recipes are not just short—they’re bolder, better cooking because they’re short. Their essential cleverness gives them power that does not require long ingredient lists or all-day cooking.

And every recipe packs a punch—throw-it-together meals like “Nothing Soup,”Chili Crisp Peanut Noodles, and Five-Ingredient Pork and Kimchi Stew, snacks and side dishes like Sunflower Hummus, Crispy Spiced Chickpeas, and Salt and Vinegar Smashed Potatoes, and smart ways to use your oven, like Reverse-Sear Pork Loin, Skillet Lasagna, and Two-Hour Turkey. Recipes are organized by simplicity—Short, Shorter, and Shortest—with chapters including skillet suppers, sheet-pan tray bakes, and weeknight desserts like Clementine Blender Cake.

Milk Street Shorts: Recipes That Pack a Punch by Christopher Kimball is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.

Caramelized Pumpkin Pie

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Apricot & Sultana Hot Cross Buns
Apricot & Sultana Hot Cross Buns

Apricot & Sultana Hot Cross Buns excerpted from Handfuls of Sunshine: Perfect bite-sized bakes by Tilly Pamment. Photography by Tilly Pamment.

Handfuls of Sunshine: Perfect bite-sized bakes by Tilly PammentDreamy recipes for baby cakes, slices, tarts and other small sweet morsels from the creator of the international bestselling Plain Cake Appreciation Society

Here is to the little luxuries that make life all the sweeter.

Tilly Pamment, author of The Plain Cake Appreciation Society, returns with a new collection of more than seventy irresistible recipes for bite sized bakes. These little treats are meant to be eaten warm from the oven with no plate required, shared around a table or tucked away for a rainy day. Every recipe is designed to bring a handful of sweet joy to any moment, and who could not use a little more of that.

What you will find inside

Homemade Sunbeams and Slices of Joy
Bars bright with lemon and passion fruit, squares of rich chocolate and marmalade, and sour cream brownies with a crackly top.

Baby Cakes and Buttery Bliss
Buttery and fruit studded, sticky and chocolate filled, these are tiny treats made for pure pleasure. (more…)

Red Fruit Clafoutis
Red Fruit ClafoutisSweet Treats with Bonne Maman: Cakes, Cookies, Crêpes and more by Ilona Chovancova

Red Fruit Clafoutis excerpted from Sweet Treats with Bonne Maman: Cakes, Cookies, Crêpes and more by Ilona Chovancova. Photography by Ilona Chovancova.

Sweet Treats with Bonne Maman: Cakes, Cookies, Crêpes and more by Ilona Chovancova

Sweet Treats with Bonne Maman celebrates this iconic brand with a selection of delicious bakes to make and share!

Founded in 1971, Bonne Maman has become an instantly recognizable institution. With products available in 125 different countries, it remains a top-selling preserves brand across the World and has become synonymous with being a quality product, available to all.

This book brings together a selection of Bonne Maman’s most delicious treats, including bakes such as marble cake, banana bread, madeleines, cookies, linzer biscuits, shortbreads and double chocolate muffins…perfect for snacks and to share with family and friends!

Sweet Treats with Bonne Maman: Cakes, Cookies, Crêpes and more by Ilona Chovancova is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.  

Red Fruit Clafoutis

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Baguettes with Fermented Dough
Baguettes with Fermented Dough

Baguettes with Fermented Dough excerpted from Crust: From Sourdough, Spelt and Rye Bread to Ciabatta, Bagels and Brioche by Richard Bertinet. Photography by Jean Cazals.

Crust: From Sourdough, Spelt and Rye Bread to Ciabatta, Bagels and Brioche by Richard Bertinet

Helping you to master the mighty Sourdough and make your own ferments so that you can make bread anytime. This title looks at specialty breads, using a range of flours and flavours. It explores the Croissant and all its variations as well as covers other sweet breads such as Stollen and Brioche.

Richard Bertinet‘s revolutionary and simple approach to bread making gives you the confidence to create really exciting recipes at home.

He shows us how a good crust is one of the most significant things about all types of great bread. To start with, Richard concentrates on mastering your own ferments, working the dough and proving, which helps your technique, and then, in his following chapters, he shows you how to make a range of bread.

First is ‘Slow’ – mastering sourdough, baguette and other breads; then ‘Different’, which uses a range of flours and flavours to produce seeded, spelt, rye, ciabatta, chestnut, bagel, pretzels and more; and finally you can explore variations of ‘Sweet’ – making croissants, stollen, brioche and buns. With stunning step-by-step photography, simple advice and helpful techniques throughout, Crust will delight and inspire you to make healthier, tastier and better-looking bread! (more…)

Topsy-Turvy Banana Gingercake
Topsy-Turvy Banana Gingercake

Topsy-Turvy Banana Gingercake excerpted from The Cinnamon Bun Cookbook: Recipes for irresistible cakes, bakes, sweet treats and more by Hamlyn and Eloise Goode. Photography Octopus Publishing Group.

The Cinnamon Bun Cookbook: Recipes for irresistible cakes, bakes, sweet treats and more by Hamlyn and Eloise Goode.

Smothered in small-town coffee shop in fall vibes, this recipe book is a love letter to the coziest season of all.

For fans of the runaway BookTok trend for heartwarming, small-town romances, now you can bring the coziness into your kitchen with over 40 irresistible recipes.

It’s the season to reach for warm cupcakes, sweet crunchy biscuits, gooey cinnamon buns and cozy up with a blanket to sip on a delicious cinnamon hot chocolate.

Fall is jam-packed with the heady tastes of cinnamon, ginger, apple, maple, and comforting warm spices. From Glazed Pear & Cinnamon Loaf for chilly mornings to Spicy Apple Parkin for toasty warm evenings, The Cinnamon Bun Cookbook celebrates the season with a charming selection of deliciously decadent recipes that satisfy even the sweetest tooth.

The Cinnamon Bun Cookbook has over 40 indulgent recipes to bake, poach or roast, packed with seasonal puddings that look sensational, but are not overly complicated or time-consuming to create. Discover your favorite cinnamon recipe with inspirational ideas that you’ll love, time and time again.

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Milk Chocolate Layer Cake
Milk Chocolate Layer Cake

Milk Chocolate Layer Cake excerpted from American Girl Birthday!: Cakes, Cupcakes & Specialty Treats by Weldon Owen. Photography by Nicole Hill Gerulat.

American Girl Birthday!: Cakes, Cupcakes & Specialty Treats by Weldon Owen

Make every birthday a special and delicious celebration with 50 party-ready recipes for cakes, cupcakes, and ice cream treats—plus ideas for party favours and games—from American Girl.

American Girl Birthday! features 50 sweet recipes suitable for every taste and any day of the year: fabulous cakes with fun frostings and toppings, cupcakes for every season, fruity and colourful ice pops, sundaes, and more.

Guarantee every party will be a hit with great flavour, sparkly decorations, and shareable treats. Kids can select their favourite cake or desserts for the big day, and make edible gifts for friends, all while gaining confidence and baking skills in the kitchen.

50+ RECIPES: Kids will learn to bake delicious cakes, cupcakes, ice cream treats, and more to mark and celebrate birthdays for friends and family.

EXPERT TIPS AND TRICKS: Young chefs will learn baking know-how and while mastering measuring, rolling, frosting, and decorating!

INSPIRING IMAGES: Beautiful colourful photos inspire birthday celebrations and ensure success. (more…)

Plum Tart with Streusel
Plum Tart with Streusel

Plum Tart with Streusel excerpted from The German Baking Book: Cakes, Tarts, Breads, and More from the Black Forest and Beyond by Jurgen Krauss. Photography © 2023 Maja Smend.

The German Baking Book: Cakes, Tarts, Breads, and More from the Black Forest and Beyond by Jurgen Krauss

From Jürgen Krauss, called “possibly the best-loved contestant in Great British Baking Show history,” comes a celebration of German home baking. Make classic German pastries, from apple strudel and stolen to show stopping celebration desserts like Black Forest cake. It’s sehr gut!

The German Baking Book is a celebration of German home baking from Jurgen Krauss, who won the hearts of viewers and three Star Baker honours from the judges of The Great British Baking Show. A self-taught baker, Jürgen has drawn on the flavours, techniques, and memories from his childhood, his European travels, and his wife’s Jewish heritage, to create a collection of authentic German baking recipes from his home to yours.

Jürgen’s gentle charm can be felt with each delightful recipe. From German classics such as Black Forest gateau, and coffee cake, to festive bakes including lebkuchen and gingerbread, each of Jürgen’s delicious recipes are crafted with care and simplicity.

The German Baking Book is a must-have for fans of The Great British Baking Show and home bakers with a love for classic and festive German baking. (more…)

Apricot Mascarpone Crostata
Apricot Mascarpone Crostata

Apricot Mascarpone Crostata excerpted from Baking for Every Season: Favorite Recipes for Celebrating Year-round by Weldon Owen. Photography by Erin Scott.

Baking for Every Season: Favorite Recipes for Celebrating Year-round by Weldon Owen

Spanning holidays throughout every season, Baking for Every Season is the quintessential idea book for home bakers looking for year-round baking inspiration and delectable treats to share with friends and family, no matter the celebration.

The recipes span classics like Bûche de Noël and Pumpkin Pie Bars, trendy treats recipes such as Candy Bar Pie and Hot Cocoa Cookies, and fun kid-friendly delights including Piñata Cupcakes and Classic Sugar Cookies.

Guides and tips for decorating and serving, troubleshooting, and flawless baking make this cookbook a go-to guide for home bakers of all skill levels. Whether you’re looking to create traditional treats for a cosy winter holiday or seeking inspiration for a new favourite dessert to serve at a Fourth of July BBQ, Baking for Every Season offers a wealth of delectable ideas perfect for any occasion.

125+ SEASONAL BAKING RECIPES: Classic and contemporary recipes will inspire home bakers with beloved classics and fresh favourites to share with family and friends

HOLIDAYS AND EVERY DAY: Recipes span delicious bakes for special occasions and everyday events throughout the year, making this book ideal for all seasons and occasions (more…)