Happy Halloween! Had enough candy and sweet treats yet? We sure hope not—because this week we’re turning to holiday baking.
BookPage cooking columnist Sybil Pratt has found seven of the best baking books of the season, and you can read all about them on BookPage.com. Here on the blog, we’re giving away FOUR cookbooks—three baking books, as well as one “Cooking Bible” to help you get through the whole meal:
Stay tuned for even more cooking fun on this blog, as well as a baking-themed edition of BookPageXTRA (sign up here).
TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the name of your favorite baking or dessert cookbook.
CONTEST DETAILS: One winner will be chosen by random.org from among entries received by 6 pm CST on November 4. The winner will receive copies of Illustrated Step-by-Step Baking, Choclatique, Cooking Light Way to Bake and Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible. This prize must be shipped to a North American address.
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ETA: Congratulations to our winner, Allen! His favorite cookbook is “good old reliable Betty Crocker.”
Thank you to all who entered! Contest is now closed.
Even though it’s not strictly a baking or dessert cookbook, Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc at Home has some great baking and dessert recipes.
Maida Heatter has a number of dessert-related cookbooks. Recipes make great reading as well as baking.
My families favorite cookbook is the Junior’s Cheesecake recipe book.
I have so many great ones, but I think my latest favorite is SO SWEET!
Magnolia Bakery cookbook…yum so many goodies!
My absolute favorite has to be the “Essentials of Baking” cookbook from Williams & Sonoma. Their recipes never disappoint, especially their carmelized onion and sage pizza recipe.
One of my favorite cookbooks is “Cake mix Doctor” by Anne Byrn. Recipes are easy yet delicious, and great for those of us who are pressed for time.
Still the Betty Crocker standby .. ormy mother or Nana’s recipes!
Wow- I don’t have any of the four great books you are giving away. My favorite dessert book is Bake and Freeze Desserts by Elinor Klivans.
I always have liked the Pilsbury Baking books and their cook off books. They have yummy, quick and easy to find ingredients in them.
I like the Cake mix in a box cookbook and the cookbooks from Taste of Home. Great recipes!
I use Mark Bittman’s “How to cook everything”
I like Rose Leby Birumbaum books & my Taste of Home stuff, whether hardbound or in magazine form
right now it’s Green and Black’s chocolate cookbook…yum! I won that in a contest and LOVE it
The old, old, old version of Betty Crocker Cooky Book. It was my first cookbook purchase.
Jiffy Mix cookbook…easy old fashioned, can easily adapt to sugar free
My current favorite is Baking Illustrated by the edditors of Cook’s Illustrated magazine. Shows the why as well as the how.
I love our own home town ” Mackinac Island Cookbook.” that our medical center and local stores sell that features local recipes- local family favorites and it helps out the medical center from the profits.
Taste of Home (yearly),are so good with all kinds of goodies&all kinds of foods,they are nicely illustrated and in color and shows clearly
Never met a cookbook I didn’t love,my favorite is Nestle Toll House Best ever cookies,nice hard cover and wonderful recipes,yummy
I like Baking Illustrated from the editors of Cook’s Illustrated.
My favorite dessert cookbook currently is Malgieri and Joachim’s Perfect Light Desserts, due in large part to my love for their pie crust recipe. Though ask me tomorrow and you may find I’ve fallen in love with a new cookbook. I’m quite fickle like that.
My favorite is Baking Illustrated (Cook’s Illustrated) for its very detailed instructions. I know I can trust these recipes because they’ve been tested so many times.
Joy of Cooking – it has everything.
Last year I discovered “Rose’s Heavenly Cakes.”. I haven’t had a bad recipe yet! My family has been very grateful for their fancy birthday cakes.
I just bought the book Choclatique at Indulge LA. I met Ed, the author and the ChocolateDoctor! He signed my book for me and told me about the special QR codes on several of the recipes so I could actually watch him demonstrate the special Chef Secrets… so cool! He was terrific and the book is, too! And is chocolate…so amazing!
I always turn to Betty Crocker’s everything you need to know to cook.
Thanks.
My favorite is Vegan Cupcakes take over the World!
My favorite is Mrs. Fields’ Best Cookie Cookbook. Great recipes!
I really love the River Road Cookbook…Southern comfort food – delish!
My favorite dessert cookbook is Brown Sugar by Joyce White. I love dessert cookbooks that are based on family traditions and memories. It’s like reading a delicious novel with mouthwatering recipes added as bonus!
I like Hello Cupcake. I really enjoy making cupcakes and decorating them. And the book gives you great ideas.
My favorite baking book is Better Homes and Gardens VERY MERRY COOKIES — lots of cookie recipes to choose from both old and new.
With the dozens and dozens of cookbooks I have in the house, the one that never lets me down is my old (circa mid-70′s) version of the Betty Crocker Cookbook!
I love cookbooks and I love to use them! Many of my favorites are from local and regional organizations. Most recently the school where I work put together a cookbook with recipes from teachers and families. Every time I use it, it reminds me of good friends. It has a special place in my collection. And, of course, my 35 year old Betty Crocker is still my go-to cookbook. Thanks for the opportunity to win 4 fabulous cookbooks!
I have hundred’s of cookbooks & love them all but my favorite is one that has recipes from my grandma & mom in it…such wonderful memories every time I open it up!
Definitely the Betty Crocker Cooky Book
recently I checked 3 vegan dessert cookbooks out from the library. Vegan Cupcakes, Vegan cakes & Vegan Desserts & was amazed @ the variety of tastiness.
Lee Bailey’s Country Desserts — too good!
Still very fond of the Magnolia Bakery books
I LOVE “Babycakes Covers the Classics”! My copy is dogeared and covered with flour….a good sign!
King Arthur Flour has some great baking books…..but I also find myself going back to the 1973 version of JOY OF COOKING for just about anything . Also…..Carol Field’s The Italian Baker is wonderful.
i think that THE JOY OF COOKING has taught me how to make some wonderful sweet treats!
I have an old copy of the NY Times cookbook that I like
My hands down favorite baking book is “Rosie’s Bakery”. It’s full of great recipes if you have a sweet tooth; the iced lemon cookies are to die for
Lots of yummy ideas in America’s Best-Loved Community Cookbook Recipes: Desserts by Better Homes and Gardens. One of my faves is easy & scrumptious Chocolate Chess Pie.
Try the lobster recipe called THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE in “The Essential New York Times Cook Book” by Amanda Hesser. It’s a little bit of heaven on earth!
For me, it’s a toss-up from my old Betty Crocker Good & Easy cookbook and Taste of Home magazine. I always find a tasty recipe in either of these and use them all the time.
I have so many baking cookbooks. Among my favorites are my two cookbooks by Debbie Fields. One is cookies and one is desserts. Both are to die for!
I’ve recently gotten several great recipes from my Southern Liviing magazine…I’m always interested in finding something new.
I love Paula Deen. She told Oprah, “I am your cook, not your Dr!” I like that style of cooking. The richer, the better!
My favorite is the Farm Journal Pie Cookbook. I’ve had it so long that the pages fall out and are loose from the binding. It has the best pie crust ever in there – made with lemon juice. My pie crusts turn out wonderful because of that recipe! And the honey pumpkin pie with a cup of honey in it is to die for!!
The River Cottage Bread Handbook by Daniel Stevens is wonderful!
Anything by Paula Deen!
Mrs. Fields’ Cookie Book gets a big workout in our kitchen, especially around the holidays.
What a luscious looking Chocolate cookbook. Can almost taste that dark, smooth, melt in your mouth flavor. Chocolate cookbook from Nestles with one sumptious picture after another is my favorite.
Taste of Home suits my style from starters through desserts.
These cookbooks all look fantastic. Other than the good all-purpose recipes in my 1942 edition of The Joy of Cooking, I like Melissa Gray’s All Cakes Considered best for baking.
I enjoy the America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country cookbooks, but my favorite recpies come from my mom!
The “Joy of Cooking” is my favorite for baking and almost everything else. I have my mom’s 1943 edition (yes, 1943) which I like better than the newer editions.
my favorite dessert cookbook is Just Desserts
Dorie Greenspan’s Baking from My Home to Yours is my all-time favorite baking book!
The old Fannie Farmer- a classic.
I love the Bread Bible. Great for learning to bake.
“Fix with a Mix Desserts” published by Betty Crocker is my go to cookbook for every sweet treat I bake. This cookbook covers everything from bite size morsels, cakes, cupcakes, cookies & bars to fruit cobblers even gluten-free recipes. Please give it a once over!
I do not have any dessert cookbooks. So I hope to win one.
My tried and true favorites are Better Homes and Gardens plaid ring bound cookbook for basics and Joy of Cooking to understand better when I’m trying something new.
I use my Mom’s Good Housekeeping Cookbook.
I would love the Paula Deen Cookbook Bible. She is great.
I love the Serendipity cookbooy… frozen hot chocolate is so yummy!
Betty Crocker is still my go to for everyday baking. It’s what I grew up with!!
A favorite cooking/baking book is The Italian Baker by Carol Field. It has everything for every day to ever fancy.
I love all of Nick Malgieri’s cookbooks, but his Chocolate one is my favorite.
my go-to book is King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion Cookbook. it’s got everything you could ask for and it goes steps further with new ideas and variations. plus it’s BIG. but since i’m concerned about my antioxidants (yea, that’s why), i’m always pulling out “Chocolate On The Brain: Foolproof Recipes for Unrepentant Chocoholics,” by Nancy Mills and Kevin Mills. it’s simple, easy to follow and – without fail – produces great results.
My copy of the 1982 cookbook The Silver Palate by Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso is well used . All the recipes in it are great.
So hard to pick just one! Some of my best baking recipes have come from “The Way We Cook” by Sheryl Julian and Julie Riven. It’s not a baking-only cookbook at all, but I found that section to be the best in the book! And after a summer of taste-testing chocolate chip cookie recipes, theirs is our family’s standard.
My cookbook standby for many years has been the red and white “plaid” covered BH&G sold as a three ring notebook which is a classic. Heard that a new one has or will be coming out and I would love to see how it has changed.
I have to go with the old Betty Crocker Cookie Book – it has been a staple in our family forever – my Mom has a really old copy and I have one too
Among all my cookbooks, my favorite has to be ALL OUR FAVORITES From a Mother’s Heart. It is a M.O.P.S. (Mothers of Preschoolers) cookbook which includes childrens ideas of how cooking should be done. I have many favorites from this treasured book.
My family’s recipes that have been handed down to me
Chocolate On The Brain by Kevin and Nancy Mills
Easty to follow delicious recipes
My youngst son is baking his way through this entire book.
So many cookbooks – so little time for baking! One of my new favorites, however, is The Cake Mix Doctor by Anne Byrn.
Martha Stewart’s Cookies
Any Southern Living cookbook works for me. Tons of great recipes; many easy to prepare and also ingredients easily found in your cupboard! YUM!
My very favorite desserts have come from the Barefoot Contessa cookbooks.
One of my favorite cooks books was by Jan Karon
My favorite cookbook is Cooking Light way to bake.
Paula dean and barefoot contessa are both great cookbooks
Paula Dean rules! I have not made anything from all her cookbooks that hasn’t been devoured….
My favorite cook book is the old stand by Better Homes and Gardens complete with torn and stained pages.
Dorie Greenspan’s Baking: From My Home to Yours. I’ve tried about 30% of the recipes so far and everything has been fantastic!
The best all around cookbook is “Joy of Cooking”. It has everything, but when baking for the holidays I look for a Pilsbury cookoff cookbook as well.
I love “The Pastry Queen” by Rebecca Rather. Great recipes that anyone can use & with easily found ingredients. Also beautiful pictures & good stories!
I still love my old Better Homes & Garden cookbook. It has a little of everything.
I enjoy any Amish cookbook and I do use my Better Homes and Garden cook book quite a bit!
Saw Paula Dean interviewed recently and just like her my first cookbook was The Better Homes and Garden Cookbook. I still have and use it all these years later.
I love recipes from my TASTE OF HOME selection.
My favorite is “cookies galore”.
Some of my family’s favorite things come from Maida Heatter’s “Book of Great Desserts”. Dorie Greenspan’s “Baking From My Home to Yours” would be a close second. Thanks!
My favorite cookbook is the one I learned to cook by – Betty Crocker; my stained and taped together sprial edition from 1960.
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table , By: Molly Wizenberg
My new favorite is “Baked-New Frontiers in Baking” by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito.The Almond-Green Tea cupcakes are so fun and delicious ! It is a beautifully photographed book-as an extra bonus.
My favorite baking book is “Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day” by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Fracois.
I love the Katherine Hall Page mysteries and she has now put out a cookbook with recipes from her books. It’s called Have Faith in the Kitchen.
“Desserts from the Famous Loveless Cafe”–the sumptuously- photographed pages look good enough to eat!
One of my all time favorite dessert cookbooks is HERSHEY’S. Absolutely yummy!
I have a favorite series rather than one book. I love the whole Southern Living Annuals. I get every one and they have recipes that I actually feel that I can make.
I really like the Cooking Light cookbooks. They offer up lower calorie recipes that don’t call for a lot of esoteric ingredients and the results taste good!
My favorite is Joy of Cooking… it has everything!
I like the Taste Of Home yearly cookbooks – all kinds of great recipes that ate easy to make!
My favorite cookbook for baking is the Magnolia Cookbook. Everything I’ve made from it has been amazingly delicious!
My favorite is Pillsbury’s Best Desserts.
My favorite cookbook besides the ol red Betty Crocker is St. Louis de Montfort cookbook with everyone’s favorite recipes submitted.
I am a big fan of our KCLS library system – year round of course but especially for the holidays. There are so many great holiday cookbooks – TASTE OF HOME COOKIES is a great resource. Our favorite cookies are oldie-but-goodie-hand-me-down family recipes that I actually found in the TASTE OF HOME COOKIES recipe book – it really does have everything!
The baking cookbooks I use most often are Beard on Bread, a Taste of Home Cookie cookbook (contest winners) and The Cake-Mix Doctor, although I’ve recently purchased a few cookbooks on baking artisan bread that I’m looking forward to trying. I regular scour every baking cookbook I can get my hands on for a Devil’s Food Cake recipe that matches the one my mom used to make. I’m still searching for it.
Baking is big at our house all year round. So we have a wide assortment of cookbooks to choose from along with lots of family favorite recipes. But I have to say, time and time again I reach for my splattered and taped up copy of the Fanny Farmer Cookbook. It covers everything. I would love to win this fabulous assortment of new cookbooks. Just think of the scrumptious goodies I could create for my family and friends this holiday season!!
“Desserts that have killed better men than me” by Jeremy Jackson.
Introduction: “In the beginning, there was sugar. And also butter. And they were good……..”
My favorite cookbook is my ‘dog-eared’ copy of Fat-Free Holiday Recipes by Sandra Woodruff. Fat free does not mean flavor free.
Betty Crocker!
I received a white leather-bound copy of the Betty Crocker cookbook at a bridal shower in 1972. It’s been used over and over again throughout those nearly forty years. There are lots of other cookbooks on the same shelf, but that one is my ” go-to-first” resource.
In honor of Halloween yesterday, I’d have to say “A Zombie Ate My Cupcake: 25 Deliciously Weird Cupcake Recipes.” Frightfully delicious!
wow, my fav, not sure, I literally have hundreds of cookbooks that I collect. my collection started when I received all my grandmothers cookbooks after she passed. she was the best cook. I have tried many of the recipes, mind you they are way unhealthier then today’s cookbooks. funny, though, my son asked me why I have all of these books, because I don’t cook that much, I told him I would if he ate more than pasta!! if I have to pick, any of Ina Garten’s, love her!
My favorite dessert cookbook is THE BUTTERCUP BAKE SHOP COOKBOOK by Jennifer Appel (coauthor of THE MAGNOLIA BAKERY COOKBOOK) The recipes are delicious – and I enjoy making them.
The Fannie Farmer Cookbook which was given to me as a gift, has been my go-to baking companion for many, many years!
My favorite cookbook (2 volumes) was printed by a local cooking store many years ago, and has long been out of print. “Dear Kitchen Bazaar” is a collection of amazing recipes, both for baking and other items. I am also fond of Abby Mandel’s Cuisinart recipes. Oldies but goodies….
One of my favorites is How to Bake by Nick Malgieri. Everything in it is fantastic!
Hmmm–I have to choose? A recent favorite is Desserts 4 Today by Abigail Johnson…
I found a Hershey’s cookbook in my grandmother’s attic more than 15 years ago & it’s been my go-to baking companion ever since.
The cookbook that I return to time and again the”Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook”.
M favorite is a set of cook books – Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cookery published in 1966 — I can find everything I need in this set of books.
It is SOOOO hard to pick a favorite, but Jennifer Appel’s “The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook” is definitely in my top ten list.
“America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book” is my favorite baking book. Everything I’ve made from it has come out perfectly!
Overall favorite is “How to Cook Everything” by Mark Bittman. I also like “Cooking Light” magazine recipes.
I always refer to The Fannie Farmer Cookbook ot The Joy of Cooking, both of which I got long ago at my bridal shower! They’ve stood the test of time and helped me out many times over the years.
My favorite actually is a family cookbook I put together several years ago. It is a huge cookbook we had published via a cookbook publishing company. It has so many of my family favorites, it’s always a “go to” for a recipe of any kind! It’s The Drummond Family Cookbook.
Joy of Cooking
I enjoy The Complete Book of Baking from Pillsbury. Their recipes are usually so easy to make with readily available ingredients. I look forward to their yearly bake-off winner’s recipes. I have to add that I love my Southern Living cookbook. They have some scrumptious dessert recipes.
I have a bunch of fave baking cook books, but the one I tend to ‘go-to’ most is “Quick Fixes with Mixes” simply because I often run out of time to bake totally from scratch. It serves up awesome desserts for potlucks or special occasions that you’d never guess started with instant pudding or a boxed mix.
Betty Croker cookbook, 1959
Hershey’s Homemade cookbook has scrumptious dessert recipes.
Artisan bread in five minutes a day : the discovery that revolutionizes home baking by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois
Bernard Clayton’s book Bread Baking, the holy grail of handmade bread baking (before the widespread use of bread machines) — in my single days, I experimented page by page baking many of the breads…wish i had time to continue!
It seems like I always return to Betty Crocker or Joy of Cooking. Thanks for a chance to win!
King Arthur Flour’s Baker’s Companion is full of ideas.
I still love Julia Child cookbooks!!
Still love Julia Child cookbooks!!
I get tons of great baking recipes from The Stand Mixer Bible. Love it!
“Betty Crocker” hasn’t let me down yet!
My fave is 1 Dough, 100 Cookies!
I still fall back on my tried and true Better Homes and Gardens cookbook that I’ve had for over 50 years. It has a lot of basic recipes. I love to bake so I just use ideas from all sorts of cookbooks and magazines (no one in particular) and change the recipes around to suit the tastes of my family and friends. I never get tired of checking out new baking recipes in cookbooks!
Best Loved Community Recipes has wonderful desserts!
Desserts from the Famous Loveless Cafe
My favorite cookbook is the one my mother made for me with her recipes and she gave to me at my wedding shower.
Hands down Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home! You MUST not deny yourself Bangkok Peanut!
I just tried the beet cake with candied walnuts this weekend. I haven’t made any from the cookbook yet though.
Betty Crocker’s Cooky Book
I have an encyclopedia of cooking that I bought in installments at Kroger’s when I got married (in 1958). The hard cover is missing and the pages are tattered but I still get it out to look up recipes and get information about cooking terms, etc.
Betty Crocker
The best ever is David Lebovitz’s READY FOR DESSERTS!
This 2010 book includes a few recipes from his Room For Dessert &
Ripe for Dessert books which is all good.
The best carrot cake recipe comes from a Better Homes and Gardens cookbook that I have had forever!
My favorite is a small cookbook called Sweet Sicily. Hard to decide as I have several and love them all! But the almonds won out.
I still use the Betty Crocker Cookie Cook Bok for my favorite Christmas cookie recipes.
But I have to search out a good and easy gluten-free cookie cook book because I am marrying a guy who has to be on a gluten-free diet.
Laura Beyer
Since starting weight watchers a month ago, I have been using a lot of Cooking Light recipes. The “How to Bake” book would be incredibly useful for me at this point, because of my absolute love of cake, cookies! Yum! I can still enjoy them if I had the book!
I love to cook and bake and having these books in my cookbook collection will only add to the wonderful experience that I get with cooking/baking!
I have to say that one of my favorite cookbooks is one a principal did along with his wife of their favorite recipes. I am partial! I also enjoy vegetarian cookbooks since I am a vegetarian!
I have a ton of cookbooks, as I read them for fun, lol, but I have one eternal standby. That is my old paperback Westinghouse Cookbook. My mother has had hers longer than I’ve been alive (51 years), and mine is probably close to that old as well. While times have changed, most of the old tried and true methods are still the same, and this is a go to book for just about anything.
I received the Fanny Farmer Cookbook as a wedding gift many years ago. It has stains, tears, dog-eared pages and highlighted text with handwritten notes all over it. So this a a no-brainer for me. It has been well used and well loved
Taste of Home annual cookbooks
My Favorite cookbook of all time is Betty Crocker’s Cookbook. I have had the big red book for over 20 years now. I still love and trust thier recipes. It still have the best bannana bread recipe I have ever made. All the recipes are esy and delicious.
I love Betty Crocker! Always have since I started cooking…. Of course, there is my own that I have put together through the years.
My favorite cookbook is the old 1960′s plaid Better Homes and Garden Cookbook. I use it all the time (when I can’t remember) second best are the Paula Deen books.
Both my Joy of Cooking (1947 ed) and my Betty Crocker cookbooks are my go to books for great receipes. Both are falling apart and are food-stained. Sign of a good cookbook.
Betty Crocker and my recipe file of newspaper and magazine clippings.
My favorite is “Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, with Pie” by Patty Pinnell. She’s a fellow Michigander and although I’ve never baked a pie in my life, I love to just sit down with this cookbook and read. Someday I will try one of her recipes!
I’m always looking for new recipes to try. One of my favorite dessert cookbooks is “Desserticide aka Desserts Worth Dying For” by the Los Angeles Chapter of Sisters In Crime.
Having been a professional pastry chef, the Chocolatique book looks irresistible. The baking book I reach for most often is The Fannie Farmer Baking Book. It has the most practicle recipes for the American kitchen, and they have never failed me.
The original red checked Betty Crocker
I enjoy baking from scratch and my mother’s family had many baking secrets handed down from one generation to another. Whenever there was a bake sale there was always a line for my mom’s baked goods. She could take any recipe from any book and it became something dreams are made of. I learned many of those (secrets are secrets) and any standard cookbook recipe can be improved.
Although I have several hundred cookbooks, my go-to book is my very tattered Betty Crocker. However, I also use my church cookbooks and children’s school books since we know the contributors.
Martha Stewart’s Cookies book has lots of yummy cookie recipes!
I love Great Cookies by Carole Walters or Baking From My Home to Yours by Dori Greenspan.
Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes is awesome. Every one we have tried has been amazing and the recipes are easy to follow.
Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook. My grandmother gave it to me in 1969. Many pages have stains from my fingers turning the pages as I’m checking the ingredients..a few pages have stuck together.
The Better Homes and Garden cookbook – it taught me how to bake when I was a kid!
My favorites are old church or company cookbooks which I have bought @ garage sales of book sales.
I still use the old Betty Crocker cookbook. One of my favorites is
my Mom’s Woman’s Home Companion cookbook. I still remember
it being out in the kitchen when she baked and that was often.
I love the Hershey’s chocolate cookbook. A day without chocolate is a day without sunshine!
For now anyway, my favorite is Pies, Pies & more Pies!, by Viola Goren
It’s not a cookbook (yet), but I am continually delighted by smittenkitchen.com.
For now my favorite cookbook would be “The Pioneer Woman Cooks”
Wonderful recipes and wonderful author!
The red and white plaid Better Homes and Garden cookbook!
Anything by Taste Of Home
“The Food Substitutions Bible” by David Joachim is the perfect companion to any baking recipe. Great for finding the appropriate substition if you don’t have everything needed for a recipe.
Good old reliable Betty Crocker.
My very favorite is the “original Southern Living Cookbook’”.
But I read cookbooks just for fun in my reading time. They are all so interesting and informative.
I love the Art of Chocolate by Elaine Gonzolez. Most cookbooks are fun to browse!!!!
My favorite baking cookbook is Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook. I like to drool over the pictures and imagine I can actually bake like her.
My favorite cookbook is “Maida Heatter’s Book of Great Chocolate Desserts” because it caters to my overwhelming passion for chocolate.
It’s chocolate heaven.
Have you made the Chocolate Macaroons from Monte Carlo? They are fantastic!
Flour by Joanne Chang is a must read and must bake.
my favorite cookbooks for any recipe are the ones put together by our local churches. they have everybodys favorite recipes in them.
I would love these cookbooks…I am a big fan of Paula Deen’s and have several of hers. Her style of cooking is down-to-earth good. Put some south in your mouth.
One of my favorite desserts comes from The Fiddlehead Cookbook, although it is not strictly a baking/dessert cookbook.
My Mom had Farm Journal cookbooks. The recipes are great and the books remind me of helping my Mom try out all the great dessert choices.
2011 Christmas with Southern Living is my new facorite.
The Christmas with Southern Living series is fantastic!
Wonderful selection. A favorite of mine is Baking with Julia.
Joy of Cooking – it was a shower gift 22 years ago!!
Still love and use the old Betty Crocker cookbook.
I go to my Fanny Farmers baking cookbook that my mom gave me 30 years ago.
i like the professional pastry chef book
Taste of Home
My favorite for many years has been Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer & Marion Becker (1975 ed.) In fact, I would call it my “Bible.”
Our go-to cookbook over the years has been the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook … the more recent editions have altered recipes to make them more “healthy” without taking away the “delicious”!
I depend on Joy Of Cooking.
The Apple Cookbook By Olwen Woodier is my fave for Fall baking.
Jacques Torres
Dessert Circus: Extraordinary Desserts You Can Make at Home
I CAN’T live without my JOY OF COOKING!!!!!! It will go to the grave with me!!!!
The best baking book is Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course
I don’t have any favorite book, but I love baking anything with pumpkin.
I love Canyon Ranch Cooking – though not technically a dessert or baking cookbook, it has great dessert recipes that you can eat & not feel too guilty!
Sunset Magazine’s ‘Best of Sunset’ – before they were bought by Time Magazine and still owned by Lane Publishing – all good recipes! Their specialty cookbooks are also wonderful. Midwestern Living’s website has great recipes – I’ve been happily surprised.
Maida Heatter’s dessert recipes are my favorite. My family craves her All American Brownie recipe!
I have a Cheesecake TASTE OF HOME cookbook that has other recipes (other than cheesecake) in it. It has the BEST peanut butter pie recipe in it – it is to die for!!!!!
I am currently enjoying Fat Witch Brownies!
The Greatest Ever Chocolate Cookbook by Christine McFadden and Christine France.
My favorite cookbook is Baked-New Frontiers in Baking by Matt Lewis.
The old and big Betty Crocker cookbook was a staple in my mom’s and grandma’s kitchens.
My Lemon Bars, a recipe I tweaked from Paula Deen’s Lady and Sons, are an all time favorite of friends and family. I have even had calls from friends asking me if they can pay for a pan of my Lemon Bars when they have parties.
It is time again to use Williams and Sonoma’s Biscotti and Cookies. It has some of my favorite biscotti recipes in it.
My favorite baking cookbook is a handwritten notebook from my grandmother that contains all of her cake recipes.
I love BAKING by Dorie Greenspan. Also especially love to create my own specialty cookies. We would to win cookbook…always can use new recipes.
My favorite is the Martha Stewart Desert cookbook.
My favorite is the Martha Stewart Dessert cookbook.
You can’t beat The Joy of Cooking for great recipes.
My favorite cookbook is The Thrill of the Grill. For the basics I like Fannie Farmer.
My current favorite is The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion.
My favorite cookbook is an old one put out long ago by the Knudsen company of dairy products. It has the best cheesecake recipe and lots of ideas for brunch.
I love all sorts of cookbooks, but ones with slow cooker recipes are favorites .. I love stews, soups, and chili. The smell of something spicy filling the house is delicious.
I love the “vegan cookies” and “vegan cupcakes” cookbooks, I think there is one on brownies too
My favorite dessert cookbook is “Cocolat: Extraordinary Chocolate Desserts! Many thanks, Cindi
I have one all about making “The Ultimate Cake”. It has step-by-step instructions with pictures on the perfect cake.
Again, not technically a cookbook, but “Chocolate: The Consuming Passion” by Sandra Boynton is a must for every chocolate lover!
My favorite dessert book is The Tollhouse Cookie Book.
My favorite was compiled by patrons of our local library. It’s called Sand Lake Eats and Sweets.
My go-to is “The Professional Pastry Chef” by Bo Friberg, but I also love “The Complete Book of Pastry, Sweet and Savory” by Bernard Clayton Jr., “The Way to Cook” by Julia Child, and, of course, “The Joy of Cooking.”
Ann Byrn’s The Cake Mix Doctor–fast and delicious recipes.
My go to cookbook is an old red Betty Crocker’s Cookbook. The recipe for Banana Bread on page 37 is stained and ripped but still readable.
Hershey’s Best Recipes is my favorite cookbook yummy holiday recipes
I actually don’t have many dessert cookbooks. I love SO SWEET, though.
“Small Batch Baking for Chocalate Lovers” covers the bases for me
Betty Crocker taught me everything I know! And I love any cookie cookbook…
I grew up with Betty Crocker and now use Rachel Ray cookbooks but as far as baking I cook from memory of my Mom and the Internet plus friends as we swap recipes
My “go to cookbook” for deserts would be Ina Garten’s various cookbooks. I have them all and refer to them often…
I like The America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book and the cobbler in Princess Pamela’s Soul Food cookbook
I like “Baking Illustrated” – from the people at Cook’s Illustrated. Great recipes and clear, detailed instructions.
Bonnie Aeschliman’s “Cooking with Bonnie” is my go-to book whenever I want to impress or if I just want something good … and usually healthy.
I really would like to have the Vegan book, my son, daughter-in-law, and their two boys are all vegetarian/vegan eaters. My son and his 5 year old are coming for Thanksgiving, they want toferkey. Not even sure I spelled it correctly, never mind how to make one!
Better Homes and Gardens Old-Fashioned Home Baking
I love this cookbook!
Betty Crocker’s Cookbook. Can’t get along without the basics!
Favorite bookbook is
Betty Crocker.
Can’t get along without the basics.
Joy of Cooking by Irma Ronbauer
I love to use “Flour” by Joanne Chang
I love The Lady & Sons Just Desserts : More than 120 Sweet Temptations from Savannah’s Favorite Restaurant. It’s full of wonderful dessert recipes. Thank you for the contest!
Always good–Joy of Cooking and the Vodka Cookbook. Great information and new recipes to try.
For the busy week my go to cookbook is the Fix It and Forget It series. So many great and easy recipes
My bible: Joy of Cooking!
A Passion for Baking: Bake to celebrate, Bake to nourish, Bake for fun by Marcy Goldman
Fat Witch brownies : brownies, blondies, and bars from New York’s legendary Fat Witch Bakery
The Culinary Arts Encyclopedic Cookbook is my go to for everything followed closely by my mother.
My favorite baking recipes are often found in the America’s Test Kitchen/Cook’s Illustrated cookbooks and on their websites. Yum!
The Fanny Farmer Baking Book
Betty Crocker!
The Betty Crocker Cookbook has been my old standby, “get me out of trouble” reference. I’m ready to try other recipes that are bound in a book instead of collecting loose recipes that are hard to corral.
My all time favorite cook book is The New Fannie Farmer from about 1985. It has everything in it and I use it so much the cover has fallen off!
I love Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes. There are so many different ideas for all occasions. Not to mention step-by-step instructions and visuals.
I don’t think I have just one favorite cookbook… There are, however, many different cookbooks I use. If I’m wanting a guaranteed tasty meal, I use any of the Taste of Home cookbooks… they are wonderful.
Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible.
I love her and her cooking.
Desserts From The Famous Loveless Cafe.
Love Bake Until Bubbly – not only desserts but lots of one-dish recipes.
The Taste Of Home Cookbook. There is a receipe for anything you would like to cook or bake, from tried and true recipes, some handed down for generations, from home cooks around the country.
I find it impossible to pick a favorite anything. So much depends on my mood, on the whims of the day and even a sudden need to grab a book and pick a recipe at random. OK, that last one has gotten me into all kinds of trouble, but it can certainly turn an ordinary day into something wonderfully quirky.
I have searched for the title on Amazon, but cannot find the one book we keep turning to. It is green and has fresh in the title, not helpful I know, by William-Sonoma. In general, we use our William Sonoma books more than any other. This is probably in part because they are so pretty too.
I always find myself going back to the King Arthur Flour cookbook.
I still like Pots Pans and Pioneers ccokbook even though they are no longer in print I think. I think Katrina wipe them out. The books were based in New Orleans.
Joy of Cooking
Our family’s favorite cookbook hands down is Betty Crocker Cookie Cookbook (the origianl version NOT the reprint!!). We all have new copies but we still fight over the original one that has pages falling out and lots of love on every page!
My favorite dessert cookbook would have to be The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Book of Desserts. Just looking at the photos makes your mouth water!
I may be older and set in my cooking ways but FARM JOURNAL COOKBOOKS can’t be beat. Just plain-no nonsense foods. Try one. I recommend Farm Journal’s Complete Pie Cookbook.
I love trying new recipes. One of my favorite cookbook authors is Paula Deen.
To cook is to show love. Paula Deen is amazing I can only hope to be more like her.
and I forgot to add her cook book the Southern cooking Bible is awesome.
The cookie book
I STILL USE MY BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK AND A MAIDA HEATTER DESSERT RECIPE BOOK I RECIEVED MANY YEARS AGO…THE 1960′S THANK YOU.
My fav is “In the Sweet Kitchen” by Regan Daley.
Moosewood Restaurant Book of Desserts has some great recipes, including some delicious cookie recipes.
My favorite is whichever one my wife is using next!
My most used cookbook is the Betty Crocker one that I received at college graduation in 1961. I had never cooked while growing up and this book got well used in my first apartment. It is quite a wreck now but it is my “go to” cookbook for pies, cobblers and cookies.
My current favorite cookbook for just about everything Is Taste of Home=Everday Favorites. It has everything and all the recipes that I have tried are delicious.
Almost impossible to choose, but if I have to pick one I will take Maida Heater’s New Book of Great Desserts. It has such a nice variety and really great instructions for both novice and experienced cooks.