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Holiday Baking

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Great British Baking Show: A Bake for All Seasons by The GBBS Bakers
From celebration cakes to traybakes, to loaf cakes and breads, to pies, tarts and pastries, this book shows you how to make the very best of what each season has to offer. Be it fresh summer strawberries, fall pumpkins or other seasonal fruits, these recipes – from Prue, Paul, the Bake Off team and the 2021 bakers themselves – offer insight and inspiration throughout the year.

50 pies, 50 states: An Immigrant's Love Letter to the United States through Pie by Stacey Mei Yan Fong
Growing up overseas, the author watched movies set in the U.S. and dreamed of road-tripping from coast to coast, eating pie at diners along the way. Her book is an ode to her chosen home: honoring the people, places and flavors that made her fall in love with this country by creating a pie for every state. Each pie is a tribute to its region's unique ingredients and culture, and is also an opportunity to bake your way through the full range of flavors that America has to offer!

Bake Your Heart Out by Dan Langan with Pam Krauss
Food Network’s Dan Langan channeled his natural creativity into baking alongside his mother and grandmother and soon became obsessed with making and remaking his favorite recipes until they were the tastiest and prettiest versions of themselves. In his debut cookbook, he offers recipes for his game-changing versions of familiar classics and unique creations.

Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis
Travel back in time on a delicious decade-by-decade jaunt to learn how to bake more than 100 vintage forgotten treats. The author has baked hundreds of recipes from countless antique cookbooks and selected only the best, sharing the shining stars from each decade. Featuring a larger-than-life personality and comedic puns galore, this book will take you on a delicious journey through the past.

Crazy for Cookies, Brownies, and Bars by Dorothy Kern          
The author is one of the most trusted and widely read baking bloggers on Earth – and with good reason. In this book, she shares her recipes and baking secrets so you, too, can make scrumptiously delicious cookies that everyone loves. She outlines rules for baking delicious cookies and brownies (lots of different kinds), blondies, shortbreads, shortcakes, cookie cakes and more.

The Easy Diabetes Desserts Cookbook by Mary Ellen Phipps
People with diabetes can safely enjoy great-tasting, blood-sugar friendly versions of popular desserts like cookies, cakes, brownies and pies. Chock full of balanced, nutritionally-calculated recipes, this book includes low-sugar ingredient swaps and secrets so you can reinvent your own favorite recipes to better suit your needs.

Everyday Bread by America's Test Kitchen
Introducing the only cookbook to put homemade bread and convenience in the same sentence. Whether you're a beginner baker or an enthusiast, the chefs of ATK help you learn seven core recipes and manipulate them into different shapes and flavors with ease for tons of new breads.

The Great British Baking Show: Favorite Flavors with Recipes by Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith and the Bakers
Tuck into your all-time favorite flavors and a good sprinkling of bake-off magic with easy-to-follow recipes for new baked goods in categories like “tart and tangy,” “nutty and earthy,” or “spicy and aromatic.” A feast for both the eyes and the taste buds, these flavorful bakes will leave you inspired to mix and match different combinations, or to indulge yourself with some classic tastes and textures.

Pie is Messy by Rebecca Grasley with Willy Blackmore
The author reveals how she chased her dream of opening a California pie shop and shares the pie gospel with home cooks everywhere, beginning with abandoning the idea of perfection. Each chapter covers a different category and is broken down into two sections: old school and new school pies. This book is beginner friendly, warm and non-intimidating, and creative enough for more advanced bakers, so roll up your sleeves, grab your pie tins, and prepare to get messy!

Savory Baking by Erin Jeanne McDowell
This is the next best thing to a private baking and pastry class from a star food stylist and baking expert. Not only are each of her recipes intensely crave-able, they also offer inventive inspirations and variations for endless, out-of-the-box customizations and more flexibility. This sweeping and beautifully photographed guide to savory baking will exponentially expand your baking repertoire with a ton of delicious fun for family and friends.

Snackable Bakes by Jessie Sheehan
What is a snackable bake? It’s an utterly scrumptious, easy-peasy baking, round-the-clock treat that can be assembled in 20 minutes or less! The author offers crave-worthy snackable sweets with recipes that minimize time but maximize fun.

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