From the bestselling "legend" of baking **(New York Times), Maida
Heatter, a modern-classic collection of her all-time best-loved,
tried-and-true recipes
**"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.