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45 Best Baking Cookbooks for Beginners: Top Recipes and Tips

Discover the best baking cookbooks for beginners, pros, kids, and young adults. Explore cakes, bread, pastries, recipes, and more.

Baking can be both fun and rewarding for beginners. Whether you’re looking to make a cake, bread, or pastry, there are plenty of cookbooks available to guide you. From the best books ever published to the most popular ones on the market, you’ll find something perfect for your skill level.

If you’re just starting, consider exploring some top-selling cookbooks for beginners. These books are filled with easy-to-follow recipes that help you build confidence in the kitchen. Some famous cookbooks even feature recipes used by professionals, offering a bakery-quality experience.

For those interested in baking cakes, some of the best-selling cake cookbooks are highly recommended. These books provide step-by-step lessons to help you bake the most delicious cakes ever. Many of the recipes are simple, making them ideal for beginners.

When it comes to bread, it’s important to use the number one recipe in the top-selling bread cookbooks. Bread recipes are the foundation of baking, and a good bread recipe will teach you essential techniques. Whether you’re baking for kids or adults, bread is always a favorite.

You can find the most popular baking cookbooks at stores like Dymocks and Kmart. These stores offer a wide selection of baking books, perfect for beginners or seasoned professionals. Find the perfect cookbook to start your baking journey today!

As a veteran who has been in the baking circle for many years, we will include some of the best baking cookbooks for teens & young adults. How can teens & young adults improve the success rate of baking? Hope to make your baking a success! 

Below is our comprehensive guide to the best baking books based on hands-on experience baking from each.

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1. Mary Berry's Baking Bible

Mary Berry's Baking Bible: Over 250 Classic Recipes by Mary Berry

Mary Berry's Baking Bible: Over 250 Classic Recipes by Mary Berry

This definitive collection from the undisputed queen of cakes combines Mary Berry's most mouth-watering baking recipes in a beautifully packaged edition. 

This comprehensive baking cookbook contains 250 foolproof recipes, including the classic Victoria Sponge, Very Best Chocolate Cake, and Hazelnut Meringue Cake, as well as tempting muffins, scones, and bread and butter pudding. 

Mary's easy-to-follow instructions and handy tips make it ideal for kitchen novices and more experienced cooks alike, and full-color photographs and beautiful illustrations will guide you smoothly to baking success. 

Drawing on her years of experience to create recipes for cakes, bread, and desserts, Mary Berry's Baking Bible will prove to be a timeless classic.

The recipe is very detailed. There is so much sugar that people doubt life. There is more sugar than flour to make a cake. . . The sudden death of an individual. The biscuits are okay, and the reduction of sugar does not affect the taste. It is a baking bible, very detailed and comprehensive. 

They are all British-style baking, but they are also very good. Think about it: if you can reproduce the Queen's afternoon tea according to the recipe, is it very cool? There are definitely some recipes that are not available in the kitchen. The dosage steps are very detailed.

2. Tartine: A Classic Revisited

"Tartine: A Classic Revisited: 68 All-New Recipes + 55 Updated Favorites" by Elisabeth M. Pruett and Chad Robertson

"Tartine: A Classic Revisited: 68 All-New Recipes + 55 Updated Favorites" by Elisabeth M. Pruett and Chad Robertson

This brilliantly revisited and beautifully re-photographed baking book is a totally updated edition of a go-to classic for home and professional bakers—from one of the most acclaimed and inspiring bakeries in the world. 

Tartine offers more than 50 new recipes that capture the invention and, above all, the deliciousness that Tartine is known for—including its most requested recipe, the Morning Bun. 

Favorites from the original recipe book are here, too, revamped to speak to our tastes today and to include whole-grain and/or gluten-free variations, as well as intriguing new ingredients and global techniques. 

More than 150 drop-dead gorgeous photographs from acclaimed team Gentl + Hyers make this baking and pastry book a true collectible compendium and a must-have for bakers of all skill levels

The recipes produced by the local bakery and dessert shops are beautiful in the picture. The data list of the recipe materials seems to be more scientific, and the next steps are also detailed. The difficulty is finding the graphic and video tutorial directly.

3. BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts

"BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts" by Stella Parks


From One-Bowl Devil's Food Layer Cake to a flawless Cherry Pie that's crisp even on the very bottom, BraveTart is a celebration of classic American desserts. 

Whether down-home delights like Blueberry Muffins and Glossy Fudge Brownies or supermarket mainstays such as Vanilla Wafers and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream, your favorites are all here. 

These meticulously tested recipes bring an award-winning pastry chef's expertise into your kitchen and advice on how to “mix it up” with over 200 customizable variations—in short, exactly what you'd expect from a cookbook penned by a senior editor at Serious Eats. 

Yet, BraveTart is much more than a cookbook, as Stella Parks delves into the surprising stories of how our favorite desserts came to be, from chocolate chip cookies that predate the Tollhouse Inn to the prohibition-era origins of ice cream sodas and floats. 

With a foreword by The Food Lab's J. Kenji LĂłpez-Alt, vintage advertisements for these historical desserts, and breathtaking photography from Penny De Los Santos, BraveTart is sure to become an American classic.

About the author 

Stella Parks is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. She was named one of America's Best New Pastry Chefs by Food & Wine. When not at home in Lexington, Kentucky, Stella can be found at the Serious Eats test kitchen in Brooklyn, New York.

4. My Bread

"My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method" by Jim Lahey

"My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method" by Jim Lahey

Jim's breathtaking, miraculous, no-work, no-knead bread' (Vogue) has revolutionized the food world. Inspired by the ancient art of Italian bread making, he developed artisanal bread that is entirely his own and soon can be yours. 

The method, which captured worldwide attention, is practically foolproof and allows the home baker to let the dough rise slowly, without any kneading or fuss, and then bake it in a heavy, preheated pot. 

In "My Bread", Lahey also shares the fun of making his inventive recipes for classic pieces of bread like the rustic Italian baguette, the strata, and his famous pizza Bianca. 

With step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs of finished loaves, "My Bread" is perfect for home cooks who have always wanted to make beautiful, deeply flavored bread but found traditional recipes dauntingly complicated.

5. The Cake Bible

"The Cake Bible" by Rose Levy Berenbaum


Cake Baking Originator Book Classic Hot Selling 26 Years Reprinted 51 Times

Won the International Culinary Professional Association Cookbook Award and James Beard's Most Useful Book Award.

Exclusive offering of more than 200 formulas

The Cake Bible changed the way Americans bake

"If you ever bake a cake, this book will become your partner in the kitchen." - from the foreword by Maida Heatter. This is the classic cake cookbook that enables anyone to make delicious, exquisite cakes. 

As a writer for food magazines, women's magazines, and newspapers, including The New York Times, Rose Levy Beranbaum's trademark is her ability to reduce the most complex techniques to easy-to-follow recipes. Rose makes baking a joy. 

This is the definitive work on cakes by the country's top cake baker. The Cake Bible shows how to: Mix a buttery, tender layer cake in under five minutes with perfect results every time Make the most fabulous chocolate cake you ever imagined with just three ingredients Find recipes for every major type of cake, from pancakes to four-tiered wedding cakes Make cakes with less sugar but maximum flavor and texture Make many low- to no- cholesterol, low-saturated-fat recipes.

6. Chocolate

"Chocolate: Recipes and Techniques from the Ferrandi School of Culinary Arts" by Ferrandi Paris

"Chocolate: Recipes and Techniques from the Ferrandi School of Culinary Arts" by Ferrandi Paris

"The Chocolate Collection of the Paris Ferrandi Institute" is a chocolate teaching textbook for the Paris Ferrandi Institute, a French high-level vocational public college known as the "Harvard in the gourmet world". 

Its content is classic and unique. This book introduces various chocolate-making techniques from basic to proficient in detail. 

The introduction mainly discusses two aspects: skills and recipes. The skills part includes detailed graphics and text step-by-step explanations. The recipe part is developed with exquisitely finished pictures and text steps. 

There are also advanced tutorials for professionals and food lovers to learn, master, and read. This book presents to readers his decades of domestic and international chocolate delicacy production experience and the cooking skills of top chefs. It is a chocolate treasure not to be missed.

Artist and chocolate lover John Q. Tullius said, “Nine out of ten people love chocolate, and the one who says not to love it must be lying!” There is no food like chocolate. It tempts our taste buds and stimulates our creativity. 

The fascinating combination of textures and flavors makes chocolate appear in all kinds of delicious desserts- cakes, bars, sandwich candies, etc.; these are the complex results of terroir, year-round knowledge accumulation, and expertise.

"The Paris Ferrandi Academy Chocolate Collection" introduces detailed basic knowledge about chocolate, from cocoa to tempering. Dark chocolate, white chocolate, and milk chocolate have different suitable temperatures. This book will reveal the correct blending of chocolate. Wen's judgment method and common problems and solutions in the shaping process.

Tempering and dipping of chocolate, chocolate ganache and truffles, chocolate puff pastries and candies, chocolate ribbons, and other various chocolate decorations... 

This book presents 41 essential chocolate baking techniques at once. It is equipped with high-definition step-by-step diagrams, hand-by-hand with you to make it.

The book introduces 76 recipes for chocolate desserts, including molded and hand-dipped chocolate, chocolate bars, chocolate-flavored drinks, chocolate classics, small cakes and desserts, celebration cakes, plated desserts, ice points, etc. 

Each recipe is equipped with details. The recipes and production methods of the materials are amazing masterpieces.

In short, this book covers all aspects of chocolate. With this book, you will feel like you are in the palace of the Paris Ferrandi Culinary Academy. We invite you to share your superb cooking skills! 

Reason for recommendation:

  1. This book presents to readers decades of domestic and foreign chocolate gourmet production experience of the Paris Ferrandi Institute and the cooking skills of top chefs. It is a chocolate treasure book not to be missed!
  2. "Institut Ferrandi Chocolate Collection" is a chocolate teaching textbook from Institut Ferrandi, a French high-level vocational public school known as the "Harvard of the Gourmet World". Its content is classic and unique.

7. The Art of French Pastry

"The Art of French Pastry: A Cookbook" by Jacquy Pfeiffer and Martha Rose Shulman


Winner of  the 2014 James Beard Award for Best Cookbook, Dessert & Baking

What does it take to perfect a flawless Ă©clair? A delicate yet buttery croissant? To pipe dozens of macarons? The answer is an intimate knowledge of the fundamentals of pastry. 

In The Art of French Pastry, award-winning pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer, co-founder of the renowned French Pastry School in Chicago, gives you just that.

By teaching you how to make everything from pâte Ă  choux to pastry cream, Pfeiffer builds on the basics until you have an understanding of the science behind the ingredients used, how they interact with one another, and what your hands have to do to transform them into pastry. 

This yields glorious results! Expect to master these techniques and then indulge in exquisite recipes, such as: 
  • brioche 
  • napolĂ©ons / Mille-Feuilles 
  • cream puffs 
  • Alsatian cinnamon rolls/chinois 
  • Lemon cream tart with meringue teardrops 
  • elephant ears / palmiers 
  • black forest cake 
  • beignets 
as well as some traditional Alsatian savory treats, including: 
  • Pretzels 
  • Kougelhof 
  • Tarte FlambĂ©e 
  • Warm Alsatian Meat Pie 
The pastry is all about precision, so Pfeiffer presents us with an amazing wealth of information—lists of necessary equipment, charts on how ingredients react in different environments, and the precise weight of ingredients in grams, with a look at their equivalent in U.S. units—which will help you in all aspects of your cooking.

But to properly enjoy your “just desserts,” so to speak, you will also learn where these delicacies originated. Jacquy Pfeiffer comes from a long line of pastry chefs and has been making these recipes since he was a child working in his father’s bakery in Alsace. 

Sprinkled with funny, charming memories from a lifetime in pastry, this book will have you fully appreciating the hundreds of years of tradition that shaped these recipes into the classics that we know and love and can now serve to our friends and families over and over again.

The Art of French Pastry, full of gorgeous photography and Pfeiffer’s accompanying illustrations, is a master class in pastry from a master teacher.

8. The Book on Pie

"The Book on Pie: Everything You Need to Know to Bake Perfect Pies" by Erin Jeanne McDowell

"The Book on Pie: Everything You Need to Know to Bake Perfect Pies" by Erin Jeanne McDowell

Erin Jeanne McDowell, New York Times contributing baker extraordinaire and top food stylist, wrote the book on pie. This comprehensive handbook distills all you'll ever need to know for making perfect pies. 

The Book on Pie starts with the basics, including ways to mix pie dough for extra flaky crusts, storage and freezing, recipe size conversions, and expert tips for decorating and styling, before diving into the recipes for all the different kinds of pies: fruit, custard, cream, chiffon, cold set, savory, and mini. 

Find everything from classics like Apple Pie and Pumpkin Pie to more inspired recipes like Birthday-Cake Pie and Caramel Pork Pie with Chile and Scallions.

Erin also suggests recommended pie doughs and toppings with each recipe for infinitely customizable pies: Mix and match Pumpkin Spice Pie Dough and Dark Chocolate Drippy Glaze with the Pumpkin Pie, or sub in the Chive Compound-Butter Crust for the Croque Madame Pielets . . . The possibilities are endless. 

With helpful tips, photographic guides, and inspirations—pie-deas—it's almost like having Erin in the kitchen baking pies with you.

9. Good to the Grain

"Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours" by Kim Boyce

"Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours" by Kim Boyce

When Kim Boyce left the world of professional pastry chefs to stay at home with her two small children, she soon realized that her attempts to feed them good, homebaked treats left them hyperactive and crashing in the afternoon. Too much sugar, too many refined flours, not enough wholesomeness at all. 

She started experimenting with her favorite recipes, using whole grain flours like graham and buckwheat, turning out muffins and cakes that had great flavor and didn't make a nutritionist blanch. Boyce feels that baking with whole grains should be about flavor as much as anything else. 

Imagine health-food ideals combined with seasonal fruits, pastry-chef flair, and deliciousness. "Good to the Grain is for anyone who respects the ideals behind the real food movement but wants to eat unmistakably delicious food. 

It will appeal to novice bakers making their first muffin and to accomplished bakers yearning for old-time favorites with updated ingredients. The grains featured are barley, corn, oat, quinoa, buckwheat, Kamut, millet, rye, and spelled. 

"Good to the Grain" gathers 75 recipes for muffins, biscuits, scones, pancakes, waffles, crepes, cakes, bread, and porridge. 

Recipes include Oat Muffins with nutmeg and crumble; Multigrain Biscuits that have all the lightness of their white flour counterpart combined with the malty goodness of barley flour; Raisin and Wild Rice Pudding; Cornmeal Waffles topped with raspberry compote; Oatmeal Pancakes made with maple sugar, lending a delicate sweetness; and, an Apple Graham Coffee Cake. 

Readers will find recipes for a sandwich loaf that can double as pizza dough, a crunchy granola bar packed with oats and seeds, and a quick guide to making fruit and nut muesli to store in a big glass jar. 

The book will explain the benefits of whole grains and will be backed with helpful information, from tools to insider baking tips to shopping for fresh grains in a world of packaged goods. 

Chapters include Weekend Baking; Jams, Spreads, and Compotes; Bread; Cakes; Cookies; Porridge, Granola, and Muesli; Crepes; Pancakes and Waffles; Biscuits and Scones; and Muffins. and Compotes; Bread; Cakes; Cookies; Porridge, Granola, and Muesli; Crepes; Pancakes and Waffles; Biscuits and Scones; and, Muffins. and Compotes; Bread; Cakes; Cookies; Porridge, Granola, and Muesli; Crepes; Pancakes and Waffles; Biscuits and Scones; and, Muffins.

10. The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion

The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook by King Arthur Flour

The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook by King Arthur Flour

From Christmas cookies and pancakes to chocolate cake and sandwich bread, The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion will guide home bakers every step of the way.

Every kitchen comes equipped with a fundamental, dependable cookbook classic such as Joy of Cooking or Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook. Now, bakers have a modern classic of their own. 

From leavening, mixing, proofing, and kneading, through shaping and baking, the experts at King Arthur Flour lead you through hundreds of easy and foolproof recipes—from tricky yeast bread and sourdoughs to trendy flatbreads and crackers, to family favorites such as pancakes and waffles. 

They also present fried doughs, quick bread, batter bread, biscuits, quiches, cobblers and crisps, cookies, cakes, brownies, pies, tarts, and pastries.

For more than 200 years, King Arthur Flour has made the highest quality key ingredient in all of baking: flour. They've done decades of experimentation and research in their famous test kitchens on how the various ingredients in baked goods behave and why. 

The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion now brings you more than 350 recipes that will teach you which ingredients work together, what doesn't, and why. It is this knowledge that will allow you to unleash your own creativity and experiment in the kitchen.

You'll get a complete overview of ingredients in flours, sweeteners, leavens, fats, and more. You'll find information on substitutions and variations and troubleshooting advice from the pros at King Arthur. 

Recipes are enhanced with sidebars that share baking secrets and provide clear step-by-step instructions, and each recipe is accompanied by a detailed nutritional analysis. Techniques are further explained with easy-to-follow illustrations by culinary illustrator Laura Hartman Maestro.

The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion is the definitive kitchen resource. Exhaustive in scope, authoritative in style, and offering clear, practical, and encouraging instruction, it is the one book you'll turn to every time you bake. 

Like your set of measuring cups and favorite wooden spoon, it will become an essential kitchen tool. No kitchen in America should be without a copy. Two 8-page color inserts; 150 b/w illustrations; glossary, resources, index.

11. All About Cake: A Milk Bar Cookbook by Christina Tosi

All About Cake: A Milk Bar Cookbook by Christina Tosi

Welcome to the sugar-fueled, manically creative cake universe of Christina Tosi. 

It’s a universe of ooey-gooey banana-chocolate-peanut butter cakes you make in a crockpot, of layer cakes that taste like Key lime pie, and the most baller birthday cake ever. 

From her home kitchen to the creations of her beloved Milk Bar, All About Cake covers everything: two-minute microwave mug cakes, buttery Bundts and pounds, her famous cake truffles, and, of course, her signature naked layer cakes filled with pops of flavors and textures.

But more than just a collection of Christina’s greatest hits recipes (c’mon, like that’s not enough?), this book will be your guide for how to dream up and make cakes of any flavor you can think of, whether you’re a kitchen rookie or a full-fledged baking hardbody.

12. Maida Heatter’s Cakes by Maida Heatter

Maida Heatter’s Cakes by Maida Heatter

The first paperback edition of a classic cake collection from Maida Heatter, a James Beard Lifetime Hall of Fame member, is called The Queen of Cake by Saveur magazine.

Cakes are experiencing a renaissance, and the revival wouldn't be complete without Maida Heatter's Cakes, available for the first time in paperback. 

First published in 1997, Maida Heatter's Cakes is a "best of" compilation of 175 of Maida's classic, most beloved cake recipes originally published in her nine baking books. From an ever-so-lighter take on her legendary Queen Mother's Cake, Maida's self-proclaimed favorite, to cakes, sticky buns, homemade doughnuts, cheesecakes, muffins, ice creams, and sauces, Maida Heatter's Cakes offers foolproof recipes for novice and experienced bakers alike, presented alongside charming two-color, line-drawn illustrated interiors.

13. Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis

The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s

A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from the 20th century

Friends of baking, are you sick and tired of making the same recipes again and again? 

Then look no further than this baking blast from the past, as B. Dylan Hollis highlights the most unique tasty treats of yesteryear.

Travel on a delicious decade-by-decade jaunt as Dylan shows you how to bake vintage forgotten greats. 

With a big pinch of fun and a full cup of humor, you’ll be baking everything from Chocolate Potato Cake from the 1910s to Avocado Pie from the 1960s.

Dylan has baked hundreds of recipes from countless antique cookbooks and selected only the best for this bake book, sharing the shining stars from each decade. 

And because some of the recipes Dylan shares on his wildly popular social media channels are spectacular failures, he’s thrown in a few of the most disastrously strange recipes for you to try if you dare.

A few of Dylan’s favorites that are going to have you licking your lips and begging for more include:

  • 1900s Cornflake Macaroons
  • 1910s ANZAC Biscuits
  • 1930s Peanut Butter Bread
  • 1940s Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake
  • 1950s Tomato Soup Cake
  • 1970s Potato Chip Cookies

Baking Yesteryear contains 101 expertly curated recipes that will take you on a delicious journey through the past. 

With a larger-than-life personality and comedic puns galore, baking with Dylan never gets old. We’ll leave that to the recipes.

14. Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish

The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza

Few things are more satisfying than biting into a freshly made, crispy-on-the-outside, soft-and-supple-on-the-inside slice of perfectly baked bread. 

For Portland-based baker Ken Forkish, well-made bread is more than just a pleasure—it is a passion that has led him to create some of the best and most critically lauded bread and pizzas in the country.

In Flour Water Salt Yeast, Forkish translates his obsessively honed craft into scores of recipes for rustic boules and Neapolitan-style pizzas, all suited for the home baker. 

Forkish developed and tested all of the recipes in his home oven, and his impeccable formulas and clear instructions result in top-quality artisan breads and pizzas that stand up against those sold in the best bakeries anywhere.

Whether you’re a total beginner or a serious baker, Flour Water Salt Yeast has a recipe that suits your skill level and time constraints: Start with a straight dough and have fresh bread ready by supper time, or explore pre-ferments with bread that uses biga or poolish. 

If you’re ready to take your baking to the next level, follow Forkish’s step-by-step guide to making a levain starter with only flour and water. You will be amazed by the delicious complexity of your naturally leavened bread. 

Pizza lovers can experiment with various doughs and sauces to create the perfect pie using a pizza stone or a cast-iron skillet.

Flour Water Salt Yeast is more than just a collection of recipes for amazing bread and pizza—it offers a complete baking education, with a thorough yet accessible explanation of the tools and techniques that set artisan bread apart. 

Featuring a tutorial on baker’s percentages, advice for manipulating ingredient ratios to create custom doughs, tips for adapting bread baking schedules to fit your day-to-day life, and an entire chapter that demystifies the levain-making process, Flour Water Salt Yeast is an indispensable resource for bakers who want to make their daily bread exceptional bread.

15. Simple Cake by Odette Williams

Simple Cake by Odette Williams

Everyone has a favorite cake style, whether it's citrusy and fresh or chocolatey and indulgent. All of these recipes and more are within your reach in Simple Cake, a love letter from Brooklyn apron and bakeware designer Odette Williams to her favorite treat.

With easy recipes and inventive decorating ideas, Williams gives you recipes for 10 base cakes, 15 toppings, and endless decorating ideas to yield a treat—such as Milk & Honey Cake, Coconut Cake, Summer Berry Pavlova, and Chocolatey Chocolate Cake—for any occasion.

Williams also addresses the fundamentals for getting cakes just right, with foolproof recipes that can be cranked out whenever the urge strikes. Gorgeous photography and Williams's warm and heartfelt writing elevate this book into something truly special.

16. More Than Cake by Natasha Pickowicz

More Than Cake by Natasha Pickowicz

Natasha Pickowicz is a creative force in the world of baking. Her pastries are uniquely delicious and surprising. She’s picked up three James Beard Award nominations for her time as a professional pastry chef. 

Her buzzy bake sales for Planned Parenthood and other nonprofits have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

Now, she shares her recipes and baking know-how in a debut cookbook brimming with the energy, passion, joy, knowledge, and spirit of generosity that define her work.

The recipes are fresh and uncomplicated, drawing on the author’s Chinese and Californian heritage. She pairs nectarine and miso in a tarte tatin and makes a layer cake with olive oil, mascarpone, and fennel. 

Black cardamom gets tucked into pecan sticky buns, and galettes go savory with kabocha squash. Brown butter is the secret to irresistible buckwheat chocolate chunk cookies. 

And she’s a born teacher. Of course, pastry requires a real focus on detail and technique, but the author is here at every step with invaluable tips: 

  • underneath meringue; 
  • boil your plum stones to extract even more plum flavor; 
  • look for “first-press” yuzu juice; 

For the flakiest pie dough, freeze your butter, then use a grater to get perfect shreds. 

More Than Cake means baking to bring people together. It calls on you to prioritize pleasure. As the author writes, 

“Dessert is beyond simple calories and nutrition. . . . It spreads delight in a way that no other kind of dish can. This is something I think people really need—it’s not optional.” 

It’s a philosophy to live by.

17. Snacking Cakes by Yossy Arefi

Snacking Cakes by Yossy Arefi

In Snacking Cakes, the indulgent, treat-yourself concept of cake becomes an anytime, easy-to-make treat. Expert baker Yossy Arefi’s collection of no-fuss recipes is perfect for anyone who craves near-instant cake satisfaction.

With little time and effort, these single-layered cakes are made using only one bowl (no electric mixers needed) and utilize ingredients likely sitting in your cupboard. 

They’re baked in the basic pans you already own and shine with only the most modest adornments: a dusting of powdered sugar, a drizzle of glaze, a dollop of whipped cream. 

From Nectarine and Cornmeal Upside-Down Cake and Gingery Sweet Potato Cake to Salty Caramel Peanut Butter Cake and Milk Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cake, these humble, comforting treats couldn’t be simpler to create. 

Yossy’s rustic, elegant style combines accessible, diverse flavors in intriguing ways that make it easy for kids to join in on the baking but special enough to serve company or bring to potlucks.

Whether enjoyed in a quiet moment alone with a cup of morning coffee or with friends gathered around the pan, these ever-pleasing, undemanding cakes will become part of your daily ritual.

18. Cake Decorating for Beginners by Rose Atwater

Cake Decorating for Beginners by Rose Atwater

Thanks to Rose Atwater's step-by-step guide, decorating cakes at home is easy and fun. Rose started her "accidental cake business" in late 2009 with more than 20 practice cakes she made in the 6 months leading up to her brother's wedding. 

When he tied the knot in 2010, her prototypes turned into a steady stream of real orders. 

Over the past 11 years, she has gone on to decorate more than 1,500 cakes for her blog, Rose Bakes. She shows you primer recipes and techniques in this comprehensive book!

You'll learn basic recipes and how to choose the right equipment. After you're comfortable with the basics, you'll master different techniques to decorate cakes for any occasion, from weddings to baby showers to birthdays.

Inside, you'll learn the fundamentals of cake decorating with:

  • A list of essential equipment and tools, easy and straightforward recipes, introductory techniques, and troubleshooting tips for common problems.
  • Step-by-step instructions to decorate with frosting, piping, fondant, and chocolate.
  • 10 tutorials featuring photos and detailed instructions that will guide you from conception to creation.

Get the skills to decorate cakes like a pro with Cake Decorating for Beginners.

19. Le Grand Cours de Patisserie by Eddie Benghanem

Le Grand Cours de Patisserie by Eddie Benghanem

Highlights of this book:

The techniques and recipes from scratch to becoming a dessert master are revealed! The book contains more than 500 recipes, making it the most comprehensive and rich French dessert book on the market.

Reason for recommendation:

1. The book covers everything from meringues, cakes, and puffs to biscuits, ice cream, candies, chocolates, various breads, etc. It is an indispensable red book for learning about desserts.

2. 500+ recipes, starting from the basic selection of flour, sugar, and baking tools, to basic folding techniques, chocolate tempering methods, water bath methods, etc. Each technique is equipped with detailed step diagrams for readers' reference. study.

20. Opera Patisserie by Cedric Grolet

Opera Patisserie by Cedric Grolet

Highlights of this book:

It is the second work of Cedric Grolet, the author of "Fruit"! The 100 pastry recipes in the book are all the signature bread and desserts of the author's new store, OPERA!

Reason for recommendation:

1. Cedric Grolet tries a more unique approach and reduces the production steps as much as possible to be closer to the product itself, its texture, freshness, and taste.

2. The 100 types of pastries include sweet pastries at 7 a.m., various pastries at 11 a.m., quickly assembled desserts and frosted fruits at 3 p.m., and bread staples at 5 p.m. All recipes are made using seasonal ingredients, and the pastry-making process is simplified as much as possible, breaking the code of pastry-making.

21. Fruit: The Art of Pastry by Cedric Grolet

Fruit: The Art of Pastry by Cedric Grolet

Highlights of this book:

Hundreds of high-definition photographs of desserts, full-color printing, and the details and steps of the dessert-making process are vividly displayed on the paper comprehensively and meticulously. 

The book has a hardcover and 300 pages of specially coated paper printing. It is a dessert-making book that is not afraid of the kitchen environment. Spectrum.

Reason for recommendation:

1. The "modern" series of desserts in the book draws inspiration from nature, avoids complexity, and keeps simplicity so that the taste and texture of fruit desserts achieve a perfect fit.

2. This book is one of Cédric Grolet's famous works. The author draws inspiration from nature, regards fruits as the center of creation, and cuts into multiple colorful tastes. The fruit dessert shop he opened in Paris is lined up every day. Long queue.

22. Cooking with Chocolate by Frederic Bow

Cooking with Chocolate by Frederic Bow

Highlights of this book:

100 chocolate dessert-making techniques, 500 practical operating steps, and more than 100 special dessert recipes lead readers to learn chocolate dessert-making step by step. It is a dessert-making guide for dessert beginners!

Reason for recommendation:

1. The 16th World's Top Ten Food Book Awards.

2. Collected very representative chocolate desserts from around the world, divided the operation levels according to difficulty, and explained the secrets of making chocolate desserts concisely so that readers can learn step by step according to their own level.

3. To make it easier for readers to master the recipes introduced in the book, all recipes have been operated by pastry chefs and students of Valrhona Chocolate School and are highly operable.

23. Maison Lenôtre Haute création by Guy Klenzer

Maison Lenôtre Haute création by Guy Klenzer

Highlights of this book:

It selects the preparation methods of 160 recipes from the 60 years since the establishment of the French Renault Culinary School. It narrates them from the creative direction and techniques, such as childhood, love, luxury, color, raw materials, natural force, architecture, bubbles, imprints, etc.

Reason for recommendation:

1. The book also especially adds the preparation methods of dishes in cross-border cooperation with big brands (such as Hermès, Crocodile, Kenzo, etc.), presenting a feast of cooking and art.

2. The author Guy Klenzer is a double MOF in France known as the "father of avant-garde modern pastry". The book has exquisite pictures, distinct colors, and clear recipe steps. It is a benchmark for creative French cuisine.

24. Tourbillon by Yann Brys

Tourbillon by Yann Brys

Highlights of this book:

The author combines the concepts and techniques of traditional French desserts with tourbillon technology, opening up a new world of French desserts. 

The book contains 48 recipe combinations with three-dimensional cross-section diagrams, clearly explaining the essence of making each dessert!

Reason for recommendation:

1. The "Tourbillon" dessert technique not only innovates the appearance of desserts but also strives for harmony and perfection in the combination of flavors.

2. Jan Bliss is a very influential pastry chef in Paris. He personally taught his own "Tourbillon" dessert technique at MOF, which is popular in the French dessert world.

25. La Pâtisserie by Cyril Lignac

La Pâtisserie by Cyril Lignac

Highlights of this book:

Shareable desserts × satisfying snacks × popular signature desserts × classic French desserts, 55 representative works of the new French dessert style, representing sweet France!

Reason for recommendation:

1. By recounting several years of store opening experience, the author deciphers popular dessert shops' winning product objectives and business rules.

2. This book has been the best-selling book in the food history category on the French Amazon for many years.

3. How do you make desserts taste stand the test of time? The finished dessert needs to rest, cool, and even be transported. What kind of recipe can prevent the flavor from being lost? What techniques can keep the taste and appearance of desserts consistent? "The New Fashion of Continental Desserts: Cyril Lignac's Dessert Making" will reveal the secrets to you individually.

26. Le Cordon Bleu Pastry School by Le Cordon Bleu

Le Cordon Bleu Pastry School by Le Cordon Bleu

Highlights of this book:

This book is the textbook of Le Cordon Bleu, which embodies the tradition, technology, and artistry emphasized in the original training purpose of Le Cordon Bleu.

Reason for recommendation:

1. The book is divided into 5 chapters, which introduce Le Cordon Bleu in detail from the history of French pastry, the department structure and roles of each level of a formal pastry house, basic raw materials, pastry techniques, and various classic French pastry recipes.

2. Le Cordon Bleu was founded in 1895 and is world-renowned. It has many French chefs and is known as the cultural center of French cuisine. This book was written and reviewed by several star teachers. It is a rare textbook-level recipe. manual.

27. Haute Pâtisserie by Sarah Vasseghi

Haute Pâtisserie by Sarah Vasseghi

Highlights of this book:

The book introduces the making methods of 100 classic French pastries, including macarons, French desserts, tarts, decorated cakes, etc. 

In addition to the exquisitely finished pictures of each pastry, it also comes with high-definition pictures to demonstrate the key steps in detail.

Reason for recommendation:

1. The book selects several 100 recipes recommended by the best pastry chefs in the authoritative French Pastry Association (Relais Desserts) and the winning works of the World Dessert Competition and introduces each classic in detail.

2. Cakes, tarts, pies, cookies, macarons, puffs, refreshments... everything is available, and the dessert master's baking skills are dedicated to making the doubts in the production disappear.

28. French Pastry at the Ritz Paris by François Perret

French Pastry at the Ritz Paris by François Perret

Highlights of this book:

The book contains nearly 100 sets of classic recipes by the chief pastry chef of the Ritz Hotel. Each production process is explained in detail, and what is presented is a classic!

Reason for recommendation:

1. Since its opening more than 100 years ago, the Ritz Hotel in Paris has attracted celebrities like Chanel, Hemingway, and Diana with pastries. Its desserts are exquisite, small, and unique and have become the object of imitation by many dessert lovers.

2. The formula is complete and recreates the classic sweet taste! It provides detailed guidance on ingredient selection, ingredient ratio, modeling, baking, etc., and answers one by one on key techniques. It is a practical high-end dessert book!

29. Le Cordon Bleu Chocolate Bible by Le Cordon Bleu

Le Cordon Bleu Chocolate Bible by Le Cordon Bleu

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Highlights of this book:

From raw materials to production, it includes a step-by-step analysis of the operation steps of various chocolate works, with detailed production flow charts and text introductions, revealing the secrets of each classic in detail!

Reason for recommendation:

1. This is a classic chocolate textbook from the Le Cordon Bleu School of Culinary Arts in France. It introduces many recipes using chocolate as raw material, including candies, snacks, cakes, and drinks, as well as various basic production methods and techniques.

2. Le Cordon Bleu has a history of more than 120 years and accepts students from more than 50 countries worldwide. The school’s teaching resources and technology are world-class. If you want to understand chocolate thoroughly, you must not miss this book.

30. Dessert Person by Claire Saffitz

Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence: A Baking Book 

Claire Saffitz is a baking hero for a new generation. In Dessert Person, fans will find Claire’s signature spin on sweet and savory recipes like Babkallah (a babka-Challah mashup), Apple and Concord Grape Crumble Pie, Strawberry-Cornmeal Layer Cake, Crispy Mushroom Galette, and Malted Forever Brownies. 

She outlines the problems and solutions for each recipe—like what to do if your pie dough for Sour Cherry Pie cracks (patch it with dough or a quiche flour paste!)—as well as practical do’s and don’ts, skill level, prep and bake time, step-by-step photography, and foundational know-how. 

With her trademark warmth and superpower ability to explain anything baking-related, Claire is ready to make everyone a dessert person.

31. Baking All Year Round: Holidays & Special Occasions by Rosanna Pansino

In this book, you will find more than 85 recipes for many of the holidays and special occasions that Rosanna Pansino’s family celebrates, such as Christmas, New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, birthdays, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and more. 

It will be your guide for years to come with fun, creative, and delicious ideas to make and share. This book has everything you’ll need to make a lasting impression. 

It’s also sprinkled with several recipes that are either gluten-free, dairy-free, or vegan, so there’s something for everyone to enjoy and celebrate all year round!

32. Teens Cook Dessert by Megan Carle

From quick treats to impressive sweets, TEENS COOK DESSERT is a step-by-step guide to making delicious desserts that kinds of teens like to make and eat. 

Sisters Megan and Jill Carle understand what other teens know and don't know about baking, and they clearly describe and explain everything their peers need to do to produce fabulous results. 

With an interactive, colorful design and tons of mouth-watering photos, TEENS COOK DESSERT teaches teens and tweens to be independent in the kitchen and have an awesome time while they're at it. 

The only full-color dessert cookbook written by and for teenagers, with more than 75 recipes. 

Includes 120 photos showing step-by-step procedures and finished desserts so aspiring bakers can see exactly how things are done. 

The follow-up to TEENS COOK, which has sold 60,000 copies.Includes sidebars on kitchen safety, shortcuts, chemistry, math, and vocabulary.

33. The Baking Cookbook for Teens by Robin Donovan 

Teaching a teen how to bake is easier when the cookbook is made just for them. 

This introductory kids’ cookbook provides teen and tween bakers with the necessary step-by-step guidance and illustrated baking skills to create scrumptious delights.

What sets this tasty cookbook apart from other cookbooks for teens:

  • Bake like a pro―Teens will learn the baking essentials and terminology with clear explanations of everything from how to combine ingredients to decorating tips and tricks.
  • 75 easy-to-follow recipes―Young bakers will learn to create sweet treats and savory eats such as Raspberry Melt-Aways, Homemade Macarons, Jalapeño Cornbread, and Sausage and Cheese Calzones. Yum!
  • Great gift―This cookbook makes the perfect age-appropriate gift for the teen or tween in your life.

Help teens master the sweet art of baking with this indispensable cookbook designed just for them. 

34. Baking Cookbook for Teenagers by Cook Bake

When it comes to cooking, practice makes perfect. We all have to start somewhere! Baking usually brings up an image of freshly baked cookies or bread, but did you know you can also make savory stuff in the oven? In fact, baking is one of the healthiest (and tastiest!) ways to cook your food. 

This baking cookbook for teens will take you through the baking principles step by step. 

It has a bunch of super easy-to-follow recipes, complete with pictures! You will learn how to make all kinds of desserts, savory dinners, snacks, and even pizza. Yes, you read that right, homemade pizza. The best kind!

What you get in this book

  • The baking process is explained so you can start cooking today
  • A bunch of simple and healthy dessert recipes 
  • Dinner recipes that will have your family and friends impressed
  • Delicious recipes with simple instructions and pictures
  • Pizza, dinner rolls, and bread recipes - with and without carbs
  • AND SO MUCH MORE!

It’s never too early to start baking. It might seem complicated at first, but that’s why you have this baking cookbook for teenagers to help you out! 

These simple and tasty recipes with straightforward instructions will improve your diet, impress your friends, and inspire you to get even better at cooking as you get older!

35. The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs by America's Test Kitchen Kids

For the first time ever, America's Test Kitchen is bringing its scientific know-how, rigorous testing, and hands-on learning to KIDS in the kitchen!

Using kid-tested and approved recipes, America's Test Kitchen has created THE cookbook every kid chef needs on their shelf. 

Whether you're cooking for yourself, your friends, or your family, The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs has delicious recipes that will wow!

  • Recipes were thoroughly tested by more than 750 kids to get them just right for cooks of all skill levels―including recipes for breakfast, snacks and beverages, dinners, desserts, and more.
  • Step-by-step photos of tips and techniques will help young chefs feel like pros in their own kitchen
  • Testimonials (and even some product reviews!) from kid test cooks who worked alongside America's Test Kitchen will encourage young chefs that they truly are learning the best recipes from the best cooks.

By empowering young chefs to make their own choices in the kitchen, America's Test Kitchen is building a new generation of confident cooks, engaged eaters, and curious experimenters.

36. On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee

[Reason for recommendation] There are 3 volumes in this book, namely "Pasta, Sauce, Dessert, Drink", "Milk, Egg, Meat and Fish", and "Vegetable, Fruit, Spice, and Grain", each volume is taken separately It can become a masterpiece when it comes out. 

The book was hailed as an epoch-making "little masterpiece" by Time magazine, which shows its status in the food industry. 

The book is all-encompassing, covering the origins and composition of various foods and the science of turning ingredients into enticing treats. 

The author cites the classics and inserts a large number of data tables and molecular micrographs in the text, which is a proper scientific and technological style. 

Even if you're just learning to bake, I highly recommend this book. It will teach you a lot about "knowing why," and you'll find that learning it suddenly becomes so much fun!

37. Professional Baking: Study Guide (3rd Edition) by Wayne Gisslen

[Recommendation reasons] This professional baking book is a work jointly completed by Gieslund and Le Cordon Bleu. It has a long-standing reputation abroad. 

The English version has been published in the 5th edition, but the Chinese version has only the 3rd edition. 

Author Wayne Gisslen is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and the author of Cooking Professionally, among other books. 

The whole book covers all aspects of baking, including bread, cakes, desserts, cookies, puff pastry, chocolate, sugar art, etc. 

In addition to the informative theoretical foundation, it also comes with a large number of blue-ribbon recipes. It allows you to learn baking more systematically. It is a must-have book for professionals, and the price is only a few dozen yuan, so the price is too high.

[Inadequate] This book is a little difficult for beginners without any foundation to understand; it may make you a little dizzy. In addition, due to the age of publication, the pictures in the book are relatively simple.

38. The Bread Baker's Apprentice, 15th Anniversary Edition by Peter Reinhart

[Recommendation reasons] This is a well-known bread textbook, which won the "James Beard Cooking Book Award", and it also has the proud name "BBA" in the bread industry. 

Author Peter Reinhardt is a bakery founder whose dedication to bread is awe-inspiring. The author's theoretical knowledge is quite rich. 

In the book, he tells you about the baking process of bread from the selection of flour to the production of a starter. Divide the complex bread-making process into 12 classic steps and explain the function of each step, which is very friendly to beginners. 

The first half is written with theoretical basics, and the second half has tons of Cubao recipes, complete with colorful illustrations, which is simply fantastic! Both newbies and professionals can benefit a lot from this book.

39. Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish

[Recommendation reasons] It is also the book that won the "James Beard Cooking Book Award". The author, Ken Fox, is not a professional, but after 20 years of hard work, he has finally become a well-known baker. 

Although this book mainly talks about the basics of handmade European bags, the author also intersperses the various experiences of becoming a baker in the book and also writes about some workflows of professional bakeries, which is very rewarding. 

In the book, the author summarizes 8 details of making delicious bread, the method of cultivating natural yeast, and the difference between using commercial yeast and natural yeast to make bread. 

The whole process shows hand-kneading dough, and readers who make it at home can easily learn.

[Deficiencies] Since this book is about bread, there are fewer types of European buns in the recipe. 

40. Poilâne: The Secrets of the World-Famous Bread Bakery by Apollonia Poilâne

Born in New York, USA, in 1984, he is a third-generation baker and the CEO of Poirin, currently based in Paris, France. He graduated from Harvard College in 2007 with a degree in Economics. 

She expanded her family bakery internationally, and Poiran now ships more than 5,000 loaves a day to 40 countries, with a total of 6 bakeries in Paris, London, and Antwerp.

Recommended reason

The "Povalam" bakery is worshipped by bakers all over the world, see the spirit of Povalam is passed on by the third generation of heirs and recorded the recipes of hundreds of recipes in the book, including classic bread, decorative bread, biscuits, sauces, and A variety of dishes suitable for dinner types, as well as the latest creation of new cereal-based products.

It was once rated as the best bakery in the world; it ships more than 5,000 loaves of bread to 40 countries/regions by air every day; and insists on baking with five senses; A means of attracting customers.

In addition, the book's value has been recognized by Food & Wine magazine as a must-have new recipe for fall; it has also been featured on Amazon, Chowhound, and Epicurious. 

41. Junior Baker by Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen

Beginning with a quick primer on pan prep and necessary ingredients, Junior Baker offers easy recipes that make baking a cinch. 

Junior Baker will inspire kids to have fun in the kitchen while providing simple instructions on how to bake up a scrumptious collection of sweet and savory favorites.

Recipe highlights include Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf Bread, Cinnamon Monkey Bread, Chocolate Tart, Lemon and Vanilla Cheesecake, Confetti Birthday Cake, Raspberry-Swirled Meringues, Cookies and Cream Cupcakes, Pumpkin Whoopie Pies, Brown Butter Rice Krispy Treats, Garlic and Herb Focaccia, Soft Pretzels, and much more! 

This companion title to Junior Chef will be a staple for your little kitchen connoisseur!

42. Baking Class: 50 Fun Recipes Kids Will Love to Bake! by Deanna F. Cook

Following the best-selling book Cooking Class, this delightful baking cookbook for children ages 8–12 features 50 easy-to-follow, kid-friendly recipes. 

Lively step-by-step photos teach bakers-in-training how to knead the dough, make biscuits, decorate cookies, and produce a perfect pie, along with essential skills like following directions and accurately measuring ingredients. 

Kids will learn to make both sweet and savory treats and will use fresh fruits and vegetables in recipes such as Bursting with Blueberry Muffins, Zombie Zucchini Bread, and Peachy Keen Crumble. 

Bonus goodie bag stickers, pop-out gift tags, and bake sale signs encourage kids to share their homemade delights with pride. 

43. Kid Chef Bakes: The Kids' Cookbook for Aspiring Bakers by Lisa Huff

When a child is ready to take the spatula into his or her hands, it can be difficult to find recipes suited to their level, ability, and tastes that also capture their interest. 

Catering to ambitious chefs ages 8 to 12, this kid's cookbook and the culinary crash course show your chef-in-training how to bake from start to finish. 

With tips for prepping and setting up the kitchen, tutorials fostering basic skills, and recipes that parents will love, Kid Chef Bakes is a kid's cookbook to inspire the aspiring chef.

More than just a kid's cookbook, Kid Chef Bakes contains:

  • Simple recipes―Get guidance to hone skills while making delicious treats that the whole family will enjoy.
  • Tips for prep and set-up―Learn about baking tools, equipment, and pantry essentials, including essential safety tips on how to use the oven and stove.
  • Hands-on lessons―This kid's cookbook offers tutorials for developing basic cooking skills like measuring liquids vs. solids and separating eggs.

Learn how sweet it is to get your kids excited about baking with Kid Chef Bakes, an easy-to-use kids cookbook.

44. Tasty Dessert: All the Sweet You Can Eat by Tasty

Ready to rise from a baking newbie to MVP? Tasty Dessert gives you the lowdown on baking basics, from building a fuss-free pantry to mastering easy-as-pie twists on old favorites. 

You’ll stuff, layer, frost, and meringue your way to the cherry on top of pretty much every meal. 

If Confetti Birthday SoufflĂ©, No-Bake 16-Layer S’mores Cake, and Sour Cherry Fritters don’t float your boat (are you feeling ok?), here are 75 recipes for any hankering, mood, or occasion, whether you’re jonesing for a sugar adventure with friends or having a late-night dessert emergency. 

Just don’t forget to save a piece of it for yourself.

45. The Super Easy Teen Baking Cookbook by Marlynn Jayme Schotland

Baking can seem like a lot of complicated chemistry, but with the help of The Super Easy Teen Baking Cookbook, it all becomes simple. 

These beginner-friendly recipes show teens how to create their own sweet and savory baked goods at home―even if they’ve never baked before. 

There’s no time-consuming prep work, no boring flavors, and no help from adults necessary!

This teen baking cookbook helps them:

  • Get started quickly―A kitchen setup guide full of helpful tips and safety info makes it easy for teens to dive right in.
  • Unleash their creativity―Ingredient substitution ideas offer teens endless variety for switching up the flavors of their bakes.
  • Speak the language―A glossary of common terms like “glaze,” “mince,” and “zest” helps teens build their baking vocabulary.

Encourage teens to get baking with this fun collection of super easy recipes.

Conclusion

Baking isn't about pleasing taste buds or just enchantment. It also helps you to learn more about the baking cookbooks step by step and gives you the maturity needed to enhance your baking.  

Baking the perfect cake, pastry, or sweet treat is part art, part science. Achieving baking greatness requires a balance of quality ingredients, technical precision, and passion. 

But often, the missing ingredient for many home bakers is the right cake cookbook to guide their way. 

With countless cake books on the market, how do you know which is the best to help you bake like a pro? 

Should you go for a classic reference tome, a book from a celebrity chef, or a glossy option full of mouthwatering photography? 

We knew rigorous testing was required to cut through the noise and determine the best baking books available. 

This guide shares the journey behind selecting the very best baking books. 

You'll discover insights into cookbook testing, see highlights of the top 30 books, and learn which one our team agreed is the winner for any home baker to have in their collection. Let's get ready to bake! 

Above are a few simple best baking recipe books suitable for beginners, so you can be sure of your success!
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