Featuring 30 how-to illustrations that demonstrate helpful tips and techniques, a must-have baking reference provides bakers with everything they need, including metric conversions and ingredient substitutions, plus 18 basic recipes for such staples as chocolate cake, sugar cookies and buttercream icing.
An essential guide for baking includes metric conversion tables, ingredient substitutions, decorating tips for cakes and cookies, adjustments for baking at high altitudes, and recipes for homemade extracts and food colorings.
The ultimate quick, yet thorough, reference for bakers, with every metric conversion and ingredient substitution you could want, plus 18 recipes for basic, fail-proof cakes, frostings, and cookies--with variations that combine to make dozens of desserts.