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Betty Crocker Baking Basics: Recipes and Tips to Bake with Confidence

Betty Crocker Baking Basics: Recipes and Tips to Bake with Confidence

by Betty Crocker

John Wiley & Sons | March 20, 2012 | Hardcover

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Not just a recipe book, Betty Crocker Baking Basics is a one-stop beginner''s guide for new bakers, with friendly easy-to-follow directions, 360 photos, features and lots of tips designed to make baking feel easy and fun.
* BC Baking Basics is the companion title to Betty Crocker Cooking Basics 2e, which will be release in Fall 08, with the same lay-flat wiro format and price point.
* The titles features 90 simple and popular baked goods, including Lemon Bars, Peanut Butter Cookies, Tres Leches Cake, Red Velvet Cupcakes, Fresh Apple Pie, Three-Berry Tart, Banana Bread, Cornbread, Almond-Poppy Seed Muffins, Pizza Dough, Four-Grain Batter Bread, Strawberry Shortcake, Hot Fudge Sundae Cake, Fresh Peach Cobbler, Molten Chocolate Cake, Best-Ever Lemon Meringue Pie, and Creme Brulee.
* Design and voice appeals to today''s young bakers: Up-to-date information and photos cover contemporary topics like the best equipment to buy (as well as a "wish list" for people who want to buy a few special tools). Features like "What Went Wrong" maintain a casual approach to baking designer to appeal to new bakers looking more to bake as a fun activity to enjoy with friends or with your kids. The conversational tone will sound more like a sister or a friend rather than Mom.
* 360 color photos include 90 beauty shots and 270 how-to and ID shots. Every recipe will have a finished photo and a how-to shot.
* Special baking features employ how-to photos and tips to cover basics baking techniques such as frosting and decorating a cake, rolling out pie crust, and kneading and shaping bread dough.
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Betty Crocker Baking Basics: Recipes and Tips to Bake with Confidence

Betty Crocker Baking Basics: Recipes and Tips to Bake with Confidence

by Betty Crocker

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Not just a recipe book, Betty Crocker Baking Basics is a one-stop beginner''s guide for new bakers, with friendly easy-to-follow directions, 360 photos, features and lots of tips designed to make baking feel easy and fun.
* BC Baking Basics is the companion title to Betty Crocker Cooking Basics 2e, which will be release in Fall 08, with the same lay-flat wiro format and price point.
* The titles features 90 simple and popular baked goods, including Lemon Bars, Peanut Butter Cookies, Tres Leches Cake, Red Velvet Cupcakes, Fresh Apple Pie, Three-Berry Tart, Banana Bread, Cornbread, Almond-Poppy Seed Muffins, Pizza Dough, Four-Grain Batter Bread, Strawberry Shortcake, Hot Fudge Sundae Cake, Fresh Peach Cobbler, Molten Chocolate Cake, Best-Ever Lemon Meringue Pie, and Creme Brulee.
* Design and voice appeals to today''s young bakers: Up-to-date information and photos cover contemporary topics like the best equipment to buy (as well as a "wish list" for people who want to buy a few special tools). Features like "What Went Wrong" maintain a casual approach to baking designer to appeal to new bakers looking more to bake as a fun activity to enjoy with friends or with your kids. The conversational tone will sound more like a sister or a friend rather than Mom.
* 360 color photos include 90 beauty shots and 270 how-to and ID shots. Every recipe will have a finished photo and a how-to shot.
* Special baking features employ how-to photos and tips to cover basics baking techniques such as frosting and decorating a cake, rolling out pie crust, and kneading and shaping bread dough.

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The One Cookbook You Need to Fix All Your Favorite Treats!

Everybody loves homemade cookies, cakes, pies and muffins. If you want to start baking these treats but aren''t quite sure how, then Betty Crocker Baking Basics is the cookbook for you. Inside, you''ll find easy recipes for all your favorites, from Peanut Butter Cookies, Carrot Cake and Pumpkin Pie to Caramel Sticky Rolls, Berry Cheesecake and Molten Chocolate Cakes. For each recipe, illustrated techniques and goof-proof instructions guide you step by step to delicious results—even if you''ve never baked before. You also get lots of helpful pointers and information that demystify basic skills and help you start baking with confidence.

  • 90 easy recipes show how to fix your favorite baked treats

  • How-to photographs for each recipe illustrate key steps

  • "101" sections explain the basics of cookies, cakes, muffins and more

  • Recipes range from simple snacks to showstoppers like Chocolate Soufflé

  • An illustrated guide covers essential baking equipment and techniques

  • Every recipe includes cooking times, nutrition information and high-altitude baking instructions

Format: Hardcover

Dimensions: 272 Pages, 9.06 × 10.24 × 1.18 in

Published: March 20, 2012

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Language: English

The following ISBNs are associated with this title:

ISBN - 10: 047028661X

ISBN - 13: 9780470286616

Table of Contents

Introduction: Let's Start Baking.

Chapter 1: Cookies and Bars.

Chapter Introduction: Cookies and Bars.

Chapter 2: Cakes.

Chapter Introduction: Cakes.

Chapter 3: Pies and Tarts.

Chapter Introduction: Pies and Tarts.

Chapter 4: Quick Breads.

Chapter Introduction: Quick Breads.

Chapter 5: Yeast Breads.

Chapter Introduction: Yeast Breads.

Chapter 6: Desserts.

Chapter Introductions: Desserts.

Chapter 7: You Can Bake It.

Chapter Introduction: You Can Bake It.

Helpful Nutrition and Cooking Information.

More Baking Basics and Beyond.

Metric Conversion Guide.

Index.

About the Author

Betty Crocker, 1921 In 1921, Betty Crocker was created because of a contest that was part of a promotion for Gold Medal Flour. The company needed a name to sign to the letter, accompanying the prize of flour sack pincushions, sent to the thousands of customers that successfully completed a puzzle. They chose the family name of an early director of the Company, William G. Crocker, and the name Betty for its warm and approachable feel. The signature was voted the most distinctive of several submitted by female employees. The pincushion promotion set off a flood of inquiries for reliable and creative cooking advice. In 1924, Betty Crocker was on a local Minneapolis radio program called "Betty Crocker Cooking School of the Air." The response to the show was positive and it joined the NBC network lineup in 1927. Over the next quarter century, The Cooking School "graduated" more than one million listeners. During the Great Depression, Betty Crocker found ways to help families maintain an adequate diet with low wages and relief foods. In the 1930's and 1940's, Betty Crocker published the meal-planning booklet "Meal Planning on a Limited Budget" and used the booklets and the radio to provide helpful hints to homemakers to make the most of war rationed foods. In 1945, Betty Crocker was pronounced the "First Lady of Food," in a survey of best-known women in America, following First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1947, the Betty Crocker Ginger Cake mix was introduced and the name was transf
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