Cookbooks

Delight your family, friends, and guests—on holidays or any day—with beautiful boards full of scrumptious sweets.

With Kellie Hemmerly’s creative and gorgeous Dessert Boards, you can take the exciting trend of artfully composed food platters and boards in an entirely sweet new direction. The more than 50 easy-to-make boards in Kellie’s book are kid- and family-friendly, but grownups surely will love these dessert boards, too, whether the boards are served for a holiday party, a weekend visit from family or friends, or simply as a sweet finish to an everyday dinner.

The boards feature a stunning variety of sweet treats, from baked things like bars, cookies, shortbreads, bundt cakes, and mini pies, to fresh and colorful fruits of all kinds, to truffles, candies, s’mores, and more. The recipes include:

• Cake for Breakfast Board
• Easter Bunny Treats Board
• Spring Brunch Board
• Awards Night Board
• Picnic in the Park Board
• Cupcake Decorating Board
• Molto Dolce Board (Italian Sweets Board)
• Donut Dessert Board
• Birthday Confetti Board

The book also includes platters that focus on healthier sweets, such as fruits, yogurts, and granola bars, perfect for breakfast, brunch, and after-school or after-work snacks. There are inventive boards for people who love to bake as well as quick-fix boards that can be built from store-bought goods—everything you need to bring smiles to your family and friends and some extra sweetness to your life.

• Tools and tips for gear, techniques, and recipe substitutions
• Recipes for beginners and seasoned backpackers
• Best practices for following Leave No Trace ethics for cooking

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"Paired with her stunning photography, this book inspires baking unique desserts week after week.” ―Kristin “Baker Bettie” Hoffman, author of Baker Bettie's Better Baking Book

#1 New Release in Sweets, Confectionary

Sweet recipes with gorgeous pictures for every season.

Baked treats for every season. An ode to seasonal baking, Vedika Luthra has crafted unique dessert recipes using seasonal ingredients and distinctive flavor combinations for throughout the year.

Desserts for Christmas and other holiday desserts. Whether you're looking for a stunning pumpkin spice cheesecake to welcome fall to your household, or a festive pavlova that serves as the grand finale to your Christmas party, this book provides you with a recipe repertoire fit for all occasions. These treats can serve as gifts for friends and family or an indulgent sweet treat for yourself.

Never run out of delicious recipes. Vedika invites you to explore desserts from her Indian heritage, her polish home base, and other dishes from around the world. Indulge in her unique 52 recipes, one for each week of the year, each accompanied by breath-taking photographs that will kick-start your sugar cravings and inspire you to create something special.

Uncomplicated baking. Is your favorite flavor chocolate, vanilla, or red velvet? Vedika has easy desserts to bake for you. She wants everyone to feel confident in their confectionary creations. Practice makes perfect and she guides you on your dessert journey whether it be lemon cakes, Bundt cakes, banana bread, or cookies.

If you loved baking with Zoë Bakes Cakes, The Great British Baking Show, or Small Batch Baking, then 52 Sweets, 52 Weeks should be your next sweet read.

"This vegetable and seafood-heavy book has recipes for all the classics . . . I would plead for as a kid . . . It's a technique-heavy book, full of reliable instructions and gorgeous, nostalgic photographs." —Epicurious

Ruwanmali Samarakoon-Amunugama's childhood memories of visits to her parents' homeland in Sri Lanka were filled with colourful trips to the market, lively, happy meals with her extended family, and long, scenic car rides from the capital of Colombo, past tea estates and farmers' stalls, into the hill country around Kandy. In Milk, Spice and Curry Leaves, Ruwan shares the rustic, tropical flavours of these Sri Lankan visits—sweet pineapple and mango, bitter gourd, toothsome cashews, spicy chili pepper, tart lime, and many more—in recipes designed with North American home cooks in mind.

She introduces the three pillars of Sri Lankan cuisine: coconut milk, rice, and spice, and walks readers through the steps to make the two foundational Sri Lankan curry powders (roasted and unroasted). She also goes into detail on specialty products—like goraka, pandanus leaves, tamarind, and young jackfruit—always with attention to using ingredients available in North American grocery stores.

With lush food photography and styling, hand-drawn illustrations, heirloom photos and ephemera, Milk, Spice and Curry Leaves is an invitation to a way of cooking and a family of traditions from the country known as "the Pearl of the Indian Ocean."

Introducing the ultimate ode to cookies, featuring over 100 cookie recipes every home baker should have in their collection.

Become a cookie connoisseur with a variety of flavors and cookie styles. From buttercream-filled sandwich cookies and berry-studded sugar cookies for summer to gingerbread and shortbread primed for the winter holidays, these recipes will see you through every season. Find all your chocolate chip-stuffed and caramel-filled favorites. With both classics and contemporary crowd-pleasers, this is the collection you’ll turn to time and time again. No matter the occasion, we’ve got you covered with cookies.

Learn to repurpose silicone ice trays as flexible, fill-and-chill molds for bite-sized desserts. From froyo pops to panna cotta, cheesecake bites to chocolate truffles, this collection of 40+ recipes for no-bake desserts is an ingenious alternative to traditional pastry cookbooks.

Pair with our Extra Large Ice Cube Tray 

 A collection of cocktail recipes for entertaining and festive occasions—from the holidays you celebrate every year, to the ones you’ll want to start celebrating.

Binding: Hardcover Page Count: 135 Trim Size: 6.75 x 8.25 in.

A personal cookbook favorite.  Not only is this book beautiful but it has my favorite recipes inside like the Huevos Rancheros.  YUM!!!!

The Dirty Apron Cooking School has taught thousands of people from around the world to cook. In this anticipated follow-up to his bestselling Dirty Apron Cookbook, David Robertson's latest book celebrates the simple pleasure that is cooking food. As cooking becomes more social by nature, Gather features an enticing collection of 80 delicious recipes, designed to be shared, on platters and in big bowls, heaped high, served with care, generosity and a lot of love. From crème brûlée French toast to a salmon, spinach and fennel Wellington to beef tenderloin with salsa verde and honey-roasted vegetables, these crowd-pleasing recipes are super approachable and burst with flavor. David includes more options for plant-based and gluten-free diets and introduces some new techniques to mix. After all, good cooking is all about coaxing flavors out of your ingredients, and if you get the techniques down, you’ll have success in the kitchen and see big smiles around the table. No matter the skill level, home cooks can learn how to cook with more confidence so they spend less time in the kitchen and more around the dining table with friends and family. Simply put: Gather gets to the heart of cooking and is an indispensable addition to any food lover’s library.

Away from home and under the open sky, cooking is stripped down to the bare essentials, so food becomes its own adventure-but don’t mistake adventure to mean nerve-wracking or hard. Cooking in camp can be as easy or extravagant as you want it to be, but the experience in itself triggers all the senses, making you feel alive and free. There’s a definite pleasure in escaping from our reliance on our kitchens, with their sleek appliances and specialized gadgets, and delving deep into our instincts-taming the flames and guiding the elements of nature to a delicious end.

 A few recipes in this book-

• Blueberry Skillet Scones with Lemon Glaze
• Dutch Oven Cider-Braised Pork Shoulder with Apple and Polenta
• Spinach, Sweet Potato, and Carrot Quinoa Chowder
• Summer Ale Sangria with Ginger and Peach
• Dutch Oven Strawberry-Rhubarb Cobbler

• More than 120 deliciously modern recipes for day trips, car camping, and backcountry adventures
• Offers a fun and easy approach to planning and prepping camp food
• The Dirty Gourmet authors were recently featured in Sunset magazine and other national media

• Car campers can relax around the fire with Ember Roasted Baba Ghanoush and Mason Jar Sangria before diving into One Pot Pasta Puttanesca and Grilled Green Bean Salad, with Maple Syrup Dumplings for dessert.
• Day hikers will want to take a break on the trail with Spicy Tofu Jerky and Curried Chickpea Salad or maybe a Pressed Sandwich with Sundried Tomato Pesto.
• Backpackers can start their day with Fried Grits Scramble with Greens, Leeks, and Bacon and recharge in the evening with Soba Noodles with Sweet Chili Chicken and a Hibiscus Chia Cooler.

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Make your cake and eat the whole thing, too!

Treat yourself to Homemade Cake in 5 min or less!

The mug cake is a warm, sweet little confection for one. And so quick and easy to make: A few spoonfuls of flour, sugar, butter, maybe some cocoa or fruit, sometimes egg, and in less than two minutes in the microwave, you’ll be a believer. Here are the best of the best recipes, for cakes from decadent to healthy(ish), including Chocolate-Mint Mug Cake, Raspberry Cobbler Mug Cake, Apple Spice Mug Cake, Nutella Mug Cake, Coffee Crumb Mug Cake. Try it, you've got nothing to lose--except the guilt you'd normally feel after eating an entire cake.