Baked to Order: 60 Sweet and Savory Recipes with Variations for Every Craving

by Ruth Mar Tam

Standout Baked Goods that Prove Variety Is the Spice of Life

It’s never been easier to find the perfect recipe for every mood than with this outstanding collection of sweet and savory treats. Ruth Mar Tam shares 60 of her favorite recipes―each with a number of variations and flavor combinations, so you can tweak them to suit any craving. While each of her recipes is delicious in its original form, the variations she offers make it easy to mix up a recipe based on ingredients you happen to have on hand or simply cater to your own personal preferences.

Once you’ve mastered Ruth’s mouthwatering Spiced Coffee Crumb Cake, give it a fruity twist with her Apple-Rye variation, or make it nutty with the addition of a Nut Streusel. Or maybe you love the Tomato and Ricotta Galette as a light lunch, but you need something a little sweeter to serve at the end of a meal―in that case, try out the Plum and Honey Frangipane variation for a crowd-pleasing dessert.

With sweet treats like Rhubarb and Walnut Linzer Cookies, Earl Grey Bundt Cake and Strawberry Palmiers, and savory options like Smoked Paprika and Cheddar Gougères, Nearly Naked Sourdough Focaccia and Mushroom Diamond Pastries, Ruth’s recipes offer you all the options you need for unique, creative, and―most importantly―delicious baking.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Food and Wine

176 pages, Paperback

Published November 17, 2020

Reviews

[Vanessa Chesebro · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. Just my style, with lots of variations. I’ve made quite a few of the recipes already- apple pie and the cranberry variation, her pie crust (so flaky- better than Zingerman’s recipe), pumpkin pie, pot pie, chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles, cinnamon rolls, challah. All are incredible. Not fussy for the sake of being fussy, but every step that may seem tedious adds important flavors.

[Miss Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

A delightful little collection complete with lovely photographs of the recipes.

Stand-outs:
Not-Your-Grandma's Banana Bread*
Lemoniest Lemon Poppyseed Loaf*
Raspberry-White Chocolate Scones
Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits Infinitely Riffable
Salter Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Espresso-Hazelnut Blondies*
Blueberry-Lemon Sour Cream Pie
Mango and Strawberry Cream Tart

Any and all of the cakes! For a true showstopper:
David's Chocolate-Raspberry Cake

All the breads nearly. The Sourdough Foccacia, Soft Sourdough Sandwich Bread, Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls and the Strawberry Palmiers.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of sweet tooth recipes from cakes cookies pies bread and tarts. Very nice but all very standard recipes. My downer is that it’s a lot of ingredients and I noticed she put salt in every recipe hmm different! Overall it is a good recipe book

[Lisa]

Espresso- Hazelnut Blondies pg. 36

Almond-Buttermilk Layer Cake pg. 79

Earl Grey Bundt Cake pg. 84

[Nada Loughead · Rating 5 out of 5]

See my review at https://canadiancookbooks.ca/baked-to...