Rosie's Bakery All-Butter, Fresh Cream, Sugar-Packed, No-Holds-Barred Baking Book

They're full of butter, cream, eggs, sugar, and sometimes the chocolate doesn't quit. But the cakes, cookies, pies, and goodies assembled in Rosie's Bakery are hands-down the best you'll ever taste. And aren't you worth the treat?

A nationally celebrated baker from Boston, Judy Rosenberg shares 200 of her recipes, including Pieces of Cakes: Rosie's Famous Sour Cream Chocolate Layer Cake, The Queen Raspberry, The Velvet Underground. The Smart Cookies: Orange-Pecan-Chocolate Chip Cookies, Gingersnappers, Sunken Kisses, Very Short Shortbread Cookies. The Harvard Squares: Extra Extra Fudgy Brownies, Chunky Chocolate Bars, Honeypots, Linzer Bars. The Cutie Pies: All-American Apple Pie, Blueberry-Plum Crumb Pie, Nectarine Synergie, Raspberry Chiffon Pie. And The Old Smoothies: Bourbon Bread Pudding, Pumpkin Caramel Custard, Truffle SoufflS.

Along the way, the author proves to be a trusted and knowledgeable guide who reveals almost all the hard-won secrets of her baking success. She lists her five basic rules of baking, and gives instructions on how to mix, bake, remove, serve, and store every different kind of baked good-from angel food cakes to filled pastry cookies. Winner of a 1991 IACP/Julia Child Cookbook Award. 181,000 copies in print. philly cream cheese cake recipes

I picked up this book about 15 years ago in a second hand bookstore in Phoenix, Arizona for $5.50 (still penciled on the inside cover). I have tried almost every recipe in the book since then. I can't say a bad thing about any one of the recipes but some have become family classics. The carrot cake, the cheese cake, the pineapple upside cake and the chocolate chip cookies. Over the years these are the recipes that have become referred to as "your delicious carrot cake... And Rosie's pastry recipe is still my go to pastry for everything. All the recipes are easy and fool proof. I love cook books but generally only get one or two good fool proof recipes out of each book. At full price that makes the cost of most books fairly expensive. But this book is worth its wait in gold.

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