I love looking at new cookbooks and recipes and would like to buy some online, but am having a hard time deciding which ones to buy. Do you have some absolute favorites you will never, ever give up? If so, do you mind to share them with me?
I really like the Gooseberry Patch cookbooks and have starting getting some of those.
How To Cook Everything - Mark Bittman
How To Bake - Nick Malgieri
The Whimsical Bakehouse Cookbook - Kaye and Liv Hansen
Pie - Ken Haedrich
The Frugal Gourmet - Jeff Smith
I'm Just Here For the Food - Alton Brown
Paula Deen's Kitchen Classics - Paula Deen
Eat This Book - Tyler Florence (although I admit I like the photos as much as the recipes...hubba hubba! 
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My favorite baking cookbook (is that called a bakebook? ): The Whimsical Bakehouse Cookbook 
My favorite cookbook: Joy of Cooking
FYI-i've cooked two recipes from Rather Sweet Bakery-delicious! didn't know there was a book.
i personally do not like cookbooks.....i end up using only 2 or 3 recipes per book and it seems like a waste of space (that's just me, i'm weird like that!) so the very few cookbooks i have are precious....and i've cooked through them all-cover to cover.
Alton Brown's -I'm Just Here for MORE food (sequel to I'm just here for the food), this one is all about BAKING!!!
Buttercup Bake Shop Bakes at Home, and The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook.
i'm considering The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook....
i also keep the Joy of cooking on the shelf, because it literally has every recipe i could ever want....but i'm more of a baker, not a cook....so i don't use it often. i guess i just think of it as a reference book.
sally
any of Paula Deen's books, there is not very many cake recipes . . . but if you like to cook, you won't find better recipes anywhere!
Best of Better Baking.com by Marcy Goldman. I have the Magnolia and Buttercup cookbooks and have been disappointed with the product outcome.I love www.allrecipes.com,not a book per say but the ratings/reviews are so helpful I consider it my online resource. I will have to get Rather Sweet, sounds like a good book.
I don't use cookbooks that much. I did when I was getting used to the kitchen when we first got married, but once I learned a few dozen things, I knew them and knew how ingredients went together and do most things on my own - except for baking. I MUST have a book for baking!
My all time, "go to" book for needing to know the basics is Better Homes and Gardens. Forgot how long to boil hard boiled eggs? How to make pie crust? It's all there.
For baking and cooking , the books I use for home are Desserts of Croatia ad Croatian Cuisine since DH is from there. Croatia probably is one of the best places for food because they have the coast, so Mediterranean foods, they were part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, so they have that influence, they were the border to the east, so they have middle eastern/Turkish influences and so on. They are VERY eclectic and probably don't have a cuisine to call their own, but they take from all sorts of fabulous foods. Yummy stuff.
For making whole grain baked breads I LOVE Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book.
For everything else I have, I use a recipe or two that I LOVE, but haven't gotten to most of them... never have time to try something new with a toddler under foot.
Melissa
Southern Living Ultimate Cookbook
Whimsical Bakehouse
America's Test Kitchens Family Favorites
Anybody follow cake bible...because i bought the book now...havent tried any recipes...any favorite recipe in that....Please.
Raji
I don't have the Whimsical Bake House, so I can't compare, but this is my cake bible. The cakes are lovely and I love that she does weights and cups so you can do either.
Her All American Chocolate Torte? OMG yummy!!! I haven't had it long, but every recipe I use now is from there. They are easy to follow, make sense and aren't full of fake stuff... very good book, imo.
Melissa
Anybody follow cake bible...because i bought the book now...havent tried any recipes...any favorite recipe in that....Please.
Raji
I don't have the Whimsical Bake House, so I can't compare, but this is my cake bible. The cakes are lovely and I love that she does weights and cups so you can do either.
Her All American Chocolate Torte? OMG yummy!!! I haven't had it long, but every recipe I use now is from there. They are easy to follow, make sense and aren't full of fake stuff... very good book, imo.
Melissa
Just recieved my book...excited about it. Happy to know that i got a good book. Thanks Melissa!
Don't laugh, but the kids bought me the WWE cookbooks. Yes, they have wrestling people in them and they are suppose to be their recipes and yes, the names are strange for the recipes. BUT....they are really good recipes, and the kids like them because they think "Triple H has eaten this".
I am really glad the kids bought these books...I have 2 books and I don't know if there is more, but I am sure the kids will find them if they excist.
Patricia
Anybody follow cake bible...because i bought the book now...havent tried any recipes...any favorite recipe in that....Please.
Raji
Idk, we tried her Downy Butter cake (or something like that) and we weren't happy. Very crumbly.
Anybody follow cake bible...because i bought the book now...havent tried any recipes...any favorite recipe in that....Please.
Raji
Idk, we tried her Downy Butter cake (or something like that) and we weren't happy. Very crumbly.
Thanks Idk...I will attempt to try that recipe.
Well, I have and love the Whimsical Bake House book. (I'm sensing a trend here...)
I also have the Pillsbury Complete Book of Baking. It has great recipes, and they are easy and extremely tasty. I think if I had to give up all my books but one, I'd keep this one. Everything I've made from it (and I've made a lot) is wonderful!
looks like i better get the whimsical bakehouse.
i actually like to collect those little cookbooks you get at the front of the grocery store line. i have over 100. they keep getting borrowed, so half of them are at my mom's.
The taste of Home mag has the best recipes in all baking and cookong categories, I haven't tried one yet that hasn't turned out great. Baking illustrated by Americas taste test kitchen is also very good with great detail and step by step directions, their carrot cake recipe is awesome!!
The taste of Home mag has the best recipes in all baking and cookong categories, I haven't tried one yet that hasn't turned out great. Baking illustrated by Americas taste test kitchen is also very good with great detail and step by step directions, their carrot cake recipe is awesome!!
I have a ton of cookbooks (sounds like I need to get the whimsical bakehouse book). My favorite one is "Dining on a Dime". There are a lot of recipes, including recipes for gift jars (cookies, soup, drinks, etc.), beauty, kids stuff (like playdough and slime). Plus there are a lot tips in every section. My MIL gave me the book for Christmas shortly after I got married. I use it all the time.
I like all my books called "Company's Coming" They are Canadian written by a woman named Jean Pare.Her recipes are easy with simple ingredients but taste great!! She has maybe 20-30 out highlighting different sections like Salads,BBQ,Appetizers,Desserts etc....Fantastic books!!! Cheap too!!!
I didn't like the Whimsical Bakehouse at 1st because I thought it was a design book but after going back through it, the recipes are thumbs up! Haven't tried all of them but can't wait to! I also have some very old (1950's) cookbooks by Better Homes and Gardens and Betty Crocker. These are so old school that it's funny...by saying that I mean, the pics are really 1950's all the way down to the cartoons. Has tips on how to be the best housewife possible....what to wear, how to clean the house, what to cook for dinner, how to set the table etc. Funny stuff. Anyways back to the subject 
I have the cake bible but I think I need to upgrade my utensils in order to get the best results. I don't have a scale and all of that. I just ordered some books from thegoodcook book club...Buttercup Bakes, More from Magnolia, King Arthur and some other non-related cake books. I think that if you want to try out some books, go with the book club. You get so many free or discounted and although, you are required to order other books to fulfill a requirement, with all the books they offer...I'm sure that wouldn't be hard to do. BUT BUT BUT, you do have to let them know you don't want certain books per month. So I guess you have to weigh those options.
I didn't like the Whimsical Bakehouse at 1st because I thought it was a design book but after going back through it, the recipes are thumbs up! Haven't tried all of them but can't wait to! I also have some very old (1950's) cookbooks by Better Homes and Gardens and Betty Crocker. These are so old school that it's funny...by saying that I mean, the pics are really 1950's all the way down to the cartoons. Has tips on how to be the best housewife possible....what to wear, how to clean the house, what to cook for dinner, how to set the table etc. Funny stuff. Anyways back to the subject
I have the cake bible but I think I need to upgrade my utensils in order to get the best results. I don't have a scale and all of that. I just ordered some books from thegoodcook book club...Buttercup Bakes, More from Magnolia, King Arthur and some other non-related cake books. I think that if you want to try out some books, go with the book club. You get so many free or discounted and although, you are required to order other books to fulfill a requirement, with all the books they offer...I'm sure that wouldn't be hard to do. BUT BUT BUT, you do have to let them know you don't want certain books per month. So I guess you have to weigh those options.
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