Maida Heatter

"Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you." Maida Heatter is one of the most iconic and fondly-remembered cookbook authors of all time. Her recipes, each a modern classic, are must-haves in every home baker's bag of tricks: her cookies, cakes, muffins, tarts, pies, and sweets of all kinds range from extravagantly special to the comforting and everyday. Her brown-sugary Budapest Coffee Cake, her minty Palm Beach Brownies, her sophisticated East 62nd Street Lemon Cake, and many other desserts have inspired legions of devotees. Happiness is Baking reproduces Maida's best-loved recipes in a fully illustrated new edition with a foreword by Dorie Greenspan. Developed for foolproof baking by experienced cooks and novices alice, these recipes bear Maida's trademark warmth, no-nonsense style, and her promise that they will work every time. Happiness is Baking is the perfect gift for anyone who loves baking--or who knows the happiness that comes from a delicious dessert.

Cakes, Pies, Tarts, Muffins, Brownies, Cookies: Favorite Desserts from the Queen of Cake

Happiness Is Baking

From simple sweets to complex confections, create dazzling desserts with this beautifully illustrated chocolate cookbook from a baking "legend" (New Yorker). Maida Heatter is one of the most trusted and beloved cookbook authors of all time. Her recipes, each a modern classic, have inspired extraordinary bakers such as Dorie Greenspan, Christina Tosi, and David Lebovitz, whose foreword introduces the joy of baking with Maida to a new generation. Throughout Maida's nearly 50-year career as a "genius" of baking (New York Times), one thing was constant: her passion for chocolate. She created hundreds of recipes for chocolate cakes, puddings, pies, cookies, and more. Now, Chocolate Is Forever collects her very best, most irresistibly chocolatey delights-including The World's Best Hot Fudge Sauce. Developed for foolproof baking by anyone, each of these nearly 100 recipes is written with Maida's warm but no-nonsense instructions and carries her guarantee that it will work perfectly every time. With recipes ranging from simple cupcakes and fudgy brownies to decadent flourless cakes, this book is a must-have in every chocolate-lover's kitchen.

Classic Cakes, Cookies, Pastries, Pies, Puddings, Candies, Confections, and More

Chocolate Is Forever

Maida Heatter is a genius--and an absolute delight! . . . Her style is friendly and funny, thorough and exacting. Maida tells you what size egg to use and she does so to guarantee success." --Foodies.com, which named Maida its "First Culinary Patriot" Chocoholics unite! Maida's back and bringing the world's best chocolate recipes with her. Maida, of course, is Maida Heatter, sorceress supreme of all things chocolate. Now cocoa aficionados, food fiends, and master chefs everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts, the classic New York Times best-seller, returns after ten years out of print. Maida is justifiably famous for her respected series of cookbooks, ranging from Maida Heatter's Book of Great Desserts to Maida Heatter's Brand-New Book of Great Cookies. But it was always her Book of Great Chocolate Desserts that inspired the highest praise, admiration, and following from home and restaurant dessert cooks around the world. Chocolate creators know they can turn to Maida for tantalizing confections, cookies, cakes, pies, puddings, and sauces that transcend the ordinary and make for memorable dining experiences.

Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts

Carefully worked-out recipes promise every kind of cookie, and a few surprise delicacies, the cookie lover could wish for, providing for a great variety of drop, bar, icebox, rolled, and hand-formed confections.

Maida Heatter's Book of Great Cookies

From the two-time James Beard Award-winning "Queen of Desserts" comes a wonderful new cookbook devoted entirely to cookies. Covering everything from biscotti and bar cookies to drop cookies and roll cookies, Maida introduces readers to a wealth of luscious varieties accompanied by simple, straightforward instructions.

Maida Heatter's Brand-New Book of Great Cookies

Whether you are a chocolate chip or an old-fashioned gingersnap, this is the only cookie book you'll ever need -- from one of the best bakers of all time. Maida Heatter is one of the most trusted and beloved cookbook authors of all time. Her recipes, each a modern classic, have inspired extraordinary bakers such as Dorie Greenspan, Christina Tosi, and Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman, whose foreword introduces the joy of Maida's cookies to a new generation. Maida knew that cookies are the key to happiness, and she always kept them nearby: a fudgy, minty Palm Beach Brownie in her purse, neatly wrapped in cellophane, a batch of Absolutely-the-Positively-Best Chocolate Chip Cookies in the freezer, or a box of delicate brandy snaps ready for an elegant gift. Now, Cookies Are Magic collects nearly 100 of Maida's very best recipes from her "legendary" (New York Times) 50-year career-her crispiest, crunchiest, and most ooey-gooey cookies, bars, and more. Developed for foolproof baking by anyone, each recipe is written with Maida's warm but no-nonsense instructions and carries her guarantee that it will work perfectly every time. Filled with classic sugar cookies, tart lemon bars, cookie kisses, and chocolate and peanut butter ripples, this is the only cookie book you will ever need.

Classic Cookies, Brownies, Bars, and More

Cookies Are Magic

Covering the whole range of dessert possibilities, the recipes in her newest cookbook have only one thing in common: sweet-tooth appeal. Features Heatter's instructive asides and 95 line drawings.

Maida Heatter's Best Dessert Book Ever

The “Queen of Desserts” offers more than 220 classic cookie recipes including drop cookies, bar cookies, icebox cookies, rolling-pin cookies, hand-formed cookies, brownies, crackers, biscotti, ice creams, sauces, and more. What sets Cookies apart from other books is Maida’s careful attention to even the smallest detail. From the importance of noting it’s best to use smooth peanut butter for Charlie Brown’s Peanut Cookies to the necessity of using a 1 to 2 inch tartlet pan when making Almond Tartlets, her thoughtful step-by-step directions ensure beginning and professional bakers alike that their recipes will always be successful if they simply follow each recipe to the letter. From its Coconut Oatmeal Cookies, Viennese Chocolate-Walnut Bars, and Butterscotch Thins, to Whole-Wheat Cinnamon-Nutmeg Cookies, Macadamia and Milk Chocolate Biscotti, and Corn Melba, this is the ultimate cookie compendium featuring everything from exquisitely simple Plain Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies to Chocolate Chip Pillows, Pecan Squares American, and even Maida’s legendary Palm Beach Brownies. This incredible collection is sure to inspire a new generation of cookie bakers with its timeless, flavorful recipes that are as delightful to create as they are to taste and enjoy.

Maida Heatter's Cookies

Presents a collection of detailed recipes for such desserts as layer cakes, chocolate cakes, cheesecakes, fruitcakes, yeast cakes, sweet breads, muffins, gingerbreads, ice cream, and sauces.

Maida Heatter's Cakes

Includes recipes for pies, turnovers, tarts, shortcakes, cobblers, mousses, puddings, and custards

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