Small-Batch Baking
Small-Batch Baking is how to have your cake, and eat it all too. It's baking a plate of cookies (not 4 dozen) to greet the kids when they come home from school, or a few muffins (not 12) when that's all you need for Sunday brunch. It's for the perfect tart to end a small, romantic dinner--or the indulgence of a one-bowl dessert just for you (Honey Apple Oatmeal Crisp, anyone?). Most of all, it's to bring home the joy of baking, when home is just the two of you--small batches whip up quickly,...
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Perfect for romantic occasions, small households, or just whipping up something for the kids when they come home from school, Small-Batch Baking delivers more than 225 smashing, small-yield recipes for all types of baking. Publishers Weekly Even the most enthusiastic home bakers may admit there are times when they really only need a few muffins for breakfast or a couple of cream puffs for a dinner party-not a dozen or more of each. When standard recipes won't reduce neatly (how do you halve an egg, for example?), frustration ensues. Nakos, a Shape, Southern Living and Cooking Light contributor, takes more than 250 classic cakes, pies, cookies, cobblers, puddings and breads and downsizes their proportions to yield just the right number of goodies for small families, singles, newlyweds, empty-nesters or the leftovers-averse (do such people exist?). Nakos certainly is creative: she uses tin cans to bake two-layer coconut cakes and chocolate cakes, jumbo muffin tins for Peach Pie and Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, and small loaf pans for Moist Fudgy Brownies. Meanwhile, a full-size loaf pan turns out Mississippi Mud Cake or Gingerbread Roulade, and one regular baking sheet does the job for Cinnamon Hazelnut Biscotti. Small-batch baking as formulated by Nakos is liberating: with quick mixing, baking and clean-up times, the whole process of producing, say, eight Pecan Snowball Cookies for tea time, or two Honey Apple Oatmeal Crisps for a sweet breakfast, is less overwhelming. (Dec.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Introduction: The Small-Batch SolutionxiHow to Bake Small Batches2Beautiful Small Cakes14Pies and Tarts112Cookies and Bars168Crumbly, Sweet, and Fruity: Cobblers, Crisps, Crumbles, and Shortcakes216Baked Puddings: I'd Rather Have Them for Supper260Sweet and Savory Muffins and Breads295Valentine Specials352Holiday Goodies You Can't Live Without396Conversion Table441Index442
\ Publishers WeeklyEven the most enthusiastic home bakers may admit there are times when they really only need a few muffins for breakfast or a couple of cream puffs for a dinner party-not a dozen or more of each. When standard recipes won't reduce neatly (how do you halve an egg, for example?), frustration ensues. Nakos, a Shape, Southern Living and Cooking Light contributor, takes more than 250 classic cakes, pies, cookies, cobblers, puddings and breads and downsizes their proportions to yield just the right number of goodies for small families, singles, newlyweds, empty-nesters or the leftovers-averse (do such people exist?). Nakos certainly is creative: she uses tin cans to bake two-layer coconut cakes and chocolate cakes, jumbo muffin tins for Peach Pie and Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, and small loaf pans for Moist Fudgy Brownies. Meanwhile, a full-size loaf pan turns out Mississippi Mud Cake or Gingerbread Roulade, and one regular baking sheet does the job for Cinnamon Hazelnut Biscotti. Small-batch baking as formulated by Nakos is liberating: with quick mixing, baking and clean-up times, the whole process of producing, say, eight Pecan Snowball Cookies for tea time, or two Honey Apple Oatmeal Crisps for a sweet breakfast, is less overwhelming. (Dec.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalFood writer Nakos started baking in small batches so she wouldn't have to face the temptation of leftovers. Here she provides recipes for all sorts of diminutive desserts, from White Chocolate Layer Cakes to Petite Pear Tartes Tatins to miniature Sweet Potato Bundt Cakes. Her layer cakes are baked in soup cans, and her upside-down cakes in muffin tins; most recipes make two or three servings. While some of these desserts are quicker than their bigger versions, some take almost as long to prepare, so bakers with more self-control may prefer to stick to recipes that yield larger quantities. On the other hand, busy moms will certainly find the idea of small-batch cookies made from start to finish in minutes very appealing. And many dessert lovers will find these little sweets quite charming-who could resist the idea of her very own Chocolate Birthday Cake? For all baking collections. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \
