Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 641.86 EAN: 9780670018741 ISBN: 0670018740 Label: Studio Manufacturer: Studio Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: March 13, 2008 Publisher: Studio Sales Rank: 46298 Studio: Studio
Product DescriptionA baking book from “one of the best pastry shops in all of New York” (Food and Wine)
Everyone has a favorite sweet treat. Whether it’s a delicious brownie or the perfect mouthwatering chocolate chip cookie, simple, homespun treats are some of our most beloved. Melissa Murphy has a love of desserts that started when she was born on Thanksgiving Day—her mother refused to go to the hospital until the two pies she’d baked had been served. Now, Melissa brings that passion to the loyal devotees of her popular, award-winning Sweet Melissa Pâtisserie shops.
What makes Melissa’s desserts and pastries special is that they are treats we all know and love with a fresh spin that make them more delicious than ever before. In The Sweet Melissa Baking Book, Melissa shares her simple, triedand-true techniques and her French-influenced, American- style baking approach. There are desserts for everyday, such as Double Dark Chocolate Cherry Cookies, and for more special occasions.
Warm and spirited, The Sweet Melissa Baking Book also contains charming anecdotes from Melissa’s life of baking. With more than one hundred recipes, the simple treats in this book will make each day and every special occasion sweeter.
What Others Say
A Purchase Well Spent
On first glance, The Sweet Melissa Baking Book: Recipes from the Beloved Bakery for Everyone's Favorite Treats is a slightly smaller than the average
glossy cookbook, you know the kind - almost ready to feature as
a coffee table book, rather than a cookbook that goes on your shelf.
That kind of cookbook has really become a standard trend.
Unlike allot of other cookbooks, The Sweet Melissa Baking Book gets right to the point. There is no lengthy forward, just a few pages mentioning Melissa Murphy's schooling and where she has gotten her restaurant experience.
She explains her love of baking and why she bakes certain items at her bake shop - Sweet Melissa Patissarie in New York, which has been going strong for 10 yrs .
Reading the forward is enough to make you love ... Read More
So far, so sweet!
I love The Sweet Melissa Baking Book: Recipes from the Beloved Bakery for Everyone's Favorite Treats! Melissa is gifted and I appreciate her sharing these lovely recipes. As far as dessert books go, it is kind of humble--no lavish photography--but the straightforward recipes make up for it. I have a ton of great dessert books causing my kitchen and sunroom bookshelves to buckle, but could not resist adding this one when I read about it online. I received it on Thursday and by today (Monday), I have made the banana bread and the chocolate sour-cherry cookies. Both are fabulous. (BTW, Melissa is right, the blacker the banana, the better.) My husband is diabetic (a great irony for a sweets lover and baker like me), so i cut down the sugar in the banana bread to 1/4 cup......it is just so delicious. I used blood oranges for the fresh ... Read More
A gem of a baking book!
Visually lovely book enhances the reading of some delicious recipe treasures that Miss Murphy shares with the reader. Her anecdotes of childhood memories make for pleasant and heartwarming reading. The coconut custard pie is one of the best I've ever made. I had the pleasure of buying and giving the book to several women in my family.
Delicious Bites of Goodness
As a devotee of the madeleines at Sweet Melissa, I was excited to try her recipe from The Sweet Melissa Baking Book. I'm not someone who just happens to have things like madeleine molds or hazelnuts just laying around the house. Nor am I a gifted separator of egg whites or recipe follower. However, after two hours of refrigeration and fifteen minutes in the oven, 24 perfect chestnut honey madeleines lay cooling on my kitchen counter. Moist, sweet, and perfect for dusting with sugar. Though my version was not quite as good as the one Melissa makes in her bakery, I place the blame squarely on my shoulders. Her recipe was clear and easy, and the madeleines were believably baked by a pro.
This is my first (only) dessert cookbook, and I don't think ... Read More
Outstanding!
Oh, I cannot tell you enough how much I am enjoying "The Sweet Melissa Baking Book". Especially, The Chocolate Malted Layer Cake ...oh does it live up to its name. It has a whole cup of malted milk powder in the frosting. I could have ate the icing with a spoon and then died utterly content. The cake is moist, tender and absolutely chocolate-y. Paired together, it's a too die for combination.
There are a myriad of recipes in the book that I want try. So many recipes, so little post-its. Yes, the book is under attack by post-its. Almost every single recipe has a post-it on it to remind me "I must try this soon".
There are over a 100 recipes in the book! The book is divided into six chapters: dessert for breakfast, after school ... Read More
