Family Circle Best-Ever Cakes & Cookies

Family Circle Best-Ever Cakes & Cookies
Plus Pies, Tarts, and Other Desserts

Compiled by the Editors of Family Circle

Americans love desserts, and no one knows this better than the editors of Family Circle. Now, the staff of the magazine read by twenty million women Family Circle Best-Ever Cakes & Cookies, presents a collection of 250 recipes that are easy to prepare and delicious. Following the success of Family Circle All-Time Favorite Recipes (more than 126,000 copies in print) and Family Circle Quick & Easy Recipes, the editors now offer Family Circle Best-Ever Cakes & Cookies Plus Pies, Tarts, and Other Desserts, a selection of treats certain to impress and delight family and friends.

"I absolutely adore our newest cookbook," says Susan Ungaro, Family Circle Editor-In-Chief. "It has inspired me to spend time creating cakes that will make my mom proud as well as baking cookies that will make my kids' day."

Packed with pies, tarts, fruit desserts, sweet breads and creamy desserts plus a generous array of old-fashioned cakes and irresistible cookies, Family Circle Best-Ever Cakes & Cookies also includes a dazzling collection of new classics such as Pina Colada Pound Cake, Chocolate-Dipped Almond Biscotti and Pear Tartlets with Ginger Pastry Cream. Also in Family Circle Best-Ever Cakes & Cookies is a chapter dedicated to Holiday Desserts, with recipes like Valentine Cream Hearts and Neapolitan Christmas Cake, to help make celebrations and special events throughout the year even more memorable.

"Having sampled each and every recipe in this book, I can testify that they meet our criteria: Beautiful to look at, guaranteed to please," says Peggy Katalinich, Family Circle Food Director. "And our how-to photographs will help guide you through any tricky maneuvers." In addition to practical step-by-step photographs, the publication features tips, hints and decorating techniques to help the home baker achieve sweet success every time—light and airy cakes, flaky piecrust, perfectly risen sweet breads.

Triple-tested recipes, glorious color photographs plus black-and-white technique shots all combine to make Family Circle Best-Ever Cakes & Cookies the handbook and perfect gift for every family baker from novice to expert.

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Family Circle Best-Ever Cakes & Cookies
Plus Pies, Tarts, and Other Desserts
Compiled by the Editors of Family Circle
Broadway Books, October 2001
Hardback, $24.95
288 pages with 28 full-color photographs
ISBN: 0-7679-0612-8
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