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Erin Jeanne McDowell, bestselling cookbook author, baker extraordinaire, and beloved teacher, shares how to bake with confidence and creativity.

Learn 11 basic recipes and unlock an infinite arsenal of baked goods. You can make Erin’s Vanilla Sugar Cookies for a simple, sweet treat. Or, you can finish it with icing or turn it into a sandwich cookie. Or, use it as the base for a Classic Fruit Tart. Or, maybe go all-out for a birthday with a stacked cookie cake. Another example, take Erin’s lofty biscuits — make a classic version with buttermilk, or swap in yogurt or even cream instead. Use it to top a fruit cobbler. Make a sweet cinnamon cream cheese biscuit “danish,” or stuffed biscuit waffles. Or, use as the crust for a quiche or in a sheet pan shortcake!

Erin shares, with can-do encouragement and detailed guidance, how baking is as flexible as cooking. Starting with a baking overview, essential tips for success, step-by-step photos, and QR codes to instructional how-to videos, all making for a fool-proof, comprehensive guide to mastering the basics, before diving into the adventurous, delicious recipes that make use of the building block:

• Sugar Cookies (Iced Sugar Cookies, Tarts, and more)
• Pudding (Parfaits, Pies, Poke Sheet Cakes...)
• Biscuits (Cobblers, Shortcakes, Quiche...)
• Pate a Choux (Eclairs, Cream Puff Cake...)
• Creme Anglaise (Ice Cream, Caramel Mousse, S'mores Mousse Cake…)
• Chocolate Cake (Fudge Glazed Chocolate Bundt, Any Day Chocolate Cake...)
• Sponge Cake (Victoria Sponge Sheet Cake, Peaches and Cream Cake...)
• Puff Pastry (Cardamom Twists, Mille Feuille, Sausage Rolls...)
• Brioche (Sugared Brioche Buns, Cinnamon Rolls, Doughnuts...)
• Macarons (Macarons, Macaron “Cake,” Macaron Stacks...)
• Yeasted Puff Pastry (Danish, Croissants, Croissant Loaf, Morning Buns...)

You’ll also find storage, refresh, and make-ahead info, plus inspiration for transforming and flavouring recipes, and “mini building blocks” (think fruity jams, whipped creams, citrus curds, and other extra sweet touches).

Details
Hardcover / 352 pages
Published 29 September 2026