Short & Sweet: The Best of Home Baking

By: Dan Lepard

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Synopsis: The renowned baker and author of The Handmade Loaf presents the ultimate baking compendium, an Andre Simon Food Book Award–winner.Dan Lepard’s innovative and earthy approach has made him the baker that every top chef wants in their kitchen. Now, with this comprehensive how-to-bake book, you’ll be baking cakes, pastries, breads, and cookies with him by your side. Drawin together his best recipes, Dan imparts his unique methodologies, combining contemporary food science with old-fashioned kitchen wisdom.Guiding you through the crispest flatbreads, blue cheese and oatmeal biscuits, gluten-free white loaves, savoury leek and smoked haddock pies, caramel sweets, frostings, simple scones and pumpkin and ginger cupcakes, Short and Sweet has everything from updated classics to the latest in allergen-friendly baking.If baking is therapy, let Dan be your life coach. Beyond teaching a wide range of techniques, he teaches you how to improve on your successes, transforming the merely good to the unforgettably delicious.