 | Bread Made Easy: A Baker's First Bread Book by Beth Hensperger
Buy used from: $18.95 Very appropriate title. That's the book to use if you want to learn how to make bread and has no one to help you. Good recipes, detailed on the right measure, easy to follow, and beautiful to look at.
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 | The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $32.14 If you want to learn about what you are doing and do it better...
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 | The Italian Baker by Carol Field
Buy new: $25.20 / Used from: $9.65 Veeeeeery good recipes for cakes and breads.
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 | Fabulous & Flourless: 150 Wheatless and Dairy-Free Desserts : Cakes, Tarts, Tortes, Roulades, Puddings, Souffles, Cookies, and More by Mary Watchel Mauksch
Buy used from: $121.12 Delicious recipes for cakes made with nuts instead of flour. They last a week out of the fridge and don't get stale, and the flavour is so good they don't need frosting.
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 | The Art of the Cake: Modern French Baking and Decorating by Bruce Healy
Buy used from: $19.37 It's not very well organized, but the recipes are good and it teaches some classical cake designs, european style.
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 | Wacky Cakes and Kooky Cookies by Gerhard Jenne
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.50 That's how I started in cake decoration, this book has enchanting ideas yet simple enough for someone who never used a pastry tube before. Look at the end cover!
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 | The Whimsical Bakehouse: Fun-to-Make Cakes That Taste as Good as They Look! by Kaye Hansen
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $18.19 If I had to choose only one cake decorating book, this would be the one. Ideas like I have never seen before, new techniques, very creative.
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 | 50 Easy Party Cakes by Debbie Brown
Buy used from: $8.12 Lovely cakes, and indeed, not so hard to do. I recommend using marzipan instead of sugarpaste for the little figures.
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 | Enchanted Cakes for Children (Merehurst Cake Decorating) by Debbie Brown
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $12.99 Beautiful sculptures in sugar paste, very creative and elegant. I have not had the corage to try any of them yet, but it's one of my favorite books to look at. :-)
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 | Colette's Christmas: Spectacular Holiday Cookies, Cakes, Pies and Other Edible Art by Colette Peters
Buy used from: $73.91 Many nice ideas, feasible for non professionals.
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 | Colette's Birthday Cakes by Colette Peters
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $8.24 A little over the top, but Colette Peters has many gorgeous cakes in this and other books.
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 | Cakewalk: Adventures In Sugar With Margaret Braun by Margaret Braun
Buy used from: $119.99 Above the over the top, but beautiful nevertheless. Her cakes are bizantine.
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