Bitten by Romance

Home Baked Comfort is a must have baking book for your cookbook shelf. These easy to follow and mouthwatering recipes hits you right off the bat and makes you want to jump on in to the baking progress. I do have to warn this is not low fat so beware if your one that watches your weight.

I’m a real mom that loves to bake. I have just about every cookbook and baking book I can get my hands on. One thing I’m though is picky about my cookbooks and what stays on my shelf. I want easy to follow recipes because I don’t have the time to try to figure out what someone is trying to say and no matter what I try it won’t work. I also need something different because I have so many cookbooks and baking book now it gets hard to find that something different. I was totally surprised that this baking had everything I look for. I enjoyed making the recipes as much as I enjoyed looking and reading them.

I loved the topic about baking they covered here are a couple. I loved the Ten Tips for becoming a better baker and enjoying it. I totally agree with them use fresh ingredients. I myself find most people stress when it comes to baking the thing is it’s not all that hard to do and the reward of your efforts is wonderful. The basic thing I had to grasp is don’t buy cheap butter, flour or etc. and make sure your ingredients are fresh. A couple of extra dollars goes along why in baking, believe me I found out a longtime ago you can’t cut corners and want the best quality product to come out of your oven.

I also loved the Top Baking Tools I Cannot Live Without. I have to agree with them on the stand mixer, there is no way I would want to go without mine. Heck, my husband thinks I would kick him out of the bed for the mixer and you know what he might be right LOL.

Now last thing, there are several bakeries that participated in this cookbook and they get to tell a bit about themselves, here is one. There is one bakery in Portland, Oregon that puts out 1000 loves and 1500 rolls a day and they use 10,000 pounds of bread flour a week, so you know these guys have got something right. Hopefully one day I can visit a few of these places.

Here are a few items to bake in each section
Breakfast
Angel biscuits “wonderful”
Orange-berry muffins
Gooey Cinnamon rolls
Breads
Lemon-blueberry Drizzle bread
Kitchen Sink Corn bread
Anything goes pizza
Cookies & Bars
Coconut-lime shortbread
Chocolate chip cookies with almonds and orange zest
Cakes & Cupcakes
Apple -whiskey cake
Triple Decker birthday cake “This cake is to die for! I have a very picky daughter that doesn’t like chocolate and she loved this.”
Pies & Tarts
The midnight gazette
Blueberry-almond crisp
Custards & Soufflé’s
Spiced persimmon pudding
Butterscotch custards

Okay, so there you have my opinion. Now, if you excuse me while I go and hunt down my husband for my upcoming birthday present. I’m in need of expanding my cookbook collection, since I only got an ecopy that expires in a few days.