The eagerly anticipated baking bible from America's most respected
authority: 100+ recipes for cookies, cakes, breads, breakfast pastries,
and much more.
"Nancy Silverton baked a brioche so perfect that it brought Julia
Child to tears...Nancy showed us how to strip away the extras and
spotlight the essentials. She's still doing that and we're all still
learning from her." --Dorie Greenspan, author of Dorie's Cookies
Nancy Silverton made her reputation as the original pastry chef for
Wolfgang Puck's restaurant Spago. Two years ago, Silverton bit into a
particularly delicious peanut butter cookie and had an epiphany: every
single thing we bake should taste this good. And so she decided to
return to her roots, and set to work perfecting the rest of the American
baking canon.
From Lattice-Topped Apple Pie to Carrot Cake with Brown Butter Cream
Cheese Frosting (the secret? Carrot puree) to Cornbread (is it too much
to ask that it actually taste like corn?), she shares recipes for the
platonic ideals of our most beloved baked goods.
Alongside the classics--Lemon Bars, Key Lime Pie, Layered Buttermilk
Biscuits--Silverton includes a handful of her own inventions:
Double-Decker Chocolate Cookies (double the fun!), Iced Raisin Bars (a
better fig newton), and Chocolate Brandy Cake (chocolate and
brandy!)--all sure to become future classics. With more than a hundred
perfected recipes, The Cookie That Changed My Life is a veritable
encyclopedia of the very best things to bake.
