They're full of butter, cream, eggs, sugar, and sometimes the chocolate doesn't quit. But the cakes, cookies, pies, and goodies assembled in Rosie's Bakeryare hands-down the best you'll ever taste. And aren't you worth the treat?

A nationally celebrated baker from Boston, Judy Rosenberg shares 200 of her recipes, including Pieces of Cakes: Rosie's Famous Sour Cream Chocolate Layer Cake, The Queen Raspberry, The Velvet Underground. The Smart Cookies: Orange-Pecan-Chocolate Chip Cookies, Gingersnappers, Sunken Kisses, Very Short Shortbread Cookies. The Harvard Squares: Extra Extra Fudgy Brownies, Chunky Chocolate Bars, Honeypots, Linzer Bars. The Cutie Pies: All-American Apple Pie, Blueberry-Plum Crumb Pie, Nectarine Synergie, Raspberry Chiffon Pie. And The Old Smoothies: Bourbon Bread Pudding, Pumpkin Caramel Custard, Truffle SoufflS.

Along the way, the author proves to be a trusted and knowledgeable guide who reveals almost all the hard-won secrets of her baking success. She lists her five basic rules of baking, and gives instructions on how to mix, bake, remove, serve, and store every different kind of baked good-from angel food cakes to filled pastry cookies. Winner of a 1991 IACP/Julia Child Cookbook Award. 181,000 copies in print.

The "Baking Book" presents 150 of the temptingest cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, and custards ever assembled.

AN UNABASHED LOVE LETTER TO THE SWEET... --Chicago Sun-Times

Whether dessert is your life or just an occasional obsession, this ebullient baker's IACP Award-winning cookbook promises to enrich your relationship with sweets. Here are the hands-down temptingest--and surprisingly easy-to-make--cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, and custards ever assembled. Rosie's Famous Sour Cream Layers, The Queen Raspberry, Soho Globs, Gingersnappers, Nectarine Synergy, Chocolate Mousse Pie in a Toasted Pecan Crust, Sunken Kisses, Daddy's Oedipal Chocolate Pudding, Peaches 'n' Cream Custard. And of course, The Brownie.

Judy Rosenberg is the author of Rosie's Bakery Chocolate-Packed, Jam-Filled, Butter-Rich, No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book. Ms. Rosenberg opened the first Rosie's Bakery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1974, and it has since won so many Boston Magazine Best of Boston Awards that it is now enshrined in their Hall of Fame.

INTRODUCTION

Meet Rosie

CHAPTER ONE

Common Sense Baking

How to stock your pantry and your equipment shelves for first-rate baking.

CHAPTER TWO

Piece of Cake

Make the very best layer and bundt cakes, sponge cakes and jelly-rolls. Complete batter and frosting information, plus Rosie's Famous Chocolate Sour-Cream Cake Layers, Velvet Underground Cake, Cold Fudge Sundae Cake, Snow Queen Cake, Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, Bittersweet Orange Cake with a Lemon Glaze, and Poppy-Seed Pound Cake (to name a few).

CHAPTER THREE

Smart Cookies

Drop cookies, cakelike cookies, rolled cookies, filled cookies — choose from an array of fabulous favorites.

Chocolate Chip Cookies, Soho Globs, Peanut Butter Cookies, Sunken Kisses, Crispy Orange-Oatmeal Wafers, Maya Pies, Pecan Crunchies, Very Short Shortbread, and more.

CHAPTER FOUR

Harvard Squares

All the best brownies and other bars, including Rosie's Award-Winning Brownies, Chocolate Orgasms, Boom Booms, Congo Bars, Orange Birthday Cake Bars, Cherry Cheesecake Bars, Walnut Dream Bars, Rhubarb Bars, Jam Sandwiches, and Dutch Butter Bars.

CHAPTER FIVE

Cutie Pies

Plus Tarts and Baked Fruit Desserts

Tips to help take the anxiety out of pie-crust making, plus favorites like an All-American Apple Pie, Sour Cherry Tart, Blueberry-Plum Crumb Pie, Nectarine Synergy, Lemon-Raisin Pie, Pecan Pie, Chocolate-Bourbon Pecan Pie, Deep-Dish Pumpkin Pie, Florida Lime Pie, Banana Custard Pie, and Crucheon's Fudge Pie.

CHAPTER SIX

The Old Smoothies

Stove-top puddings, creamy custards, and mousses, including Daddy's Oedipal Chocolate Pudding, Butterscotch Pudding, Creamy Stove-Top Rice Pudding, Peaches 'n' Cream Custard, Truffle Souffle, Chocolate Bread Pudding, Apple Bread Pudding with Vanilla Sauce, and Noodle Kugel.

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