The Christmas Baking Cookbook 

Nothing beats the smell of baked goodies, The Christmas Baking Cookbook is filled with over 100 delicious baking recipes, beautiful photograghs of finished goods, and the recipes are easy to follow.

The cookbook is broken down in six categories, plus an Appendix that has all the necessary recipes from Royal Icing to the perfect crust all with easy to follow directions to achieve perfection.

The categories: Cookies, Cakes, Breads & Breakfast treats, Pastries, Pies & Tarts, Custards & other Decadent confections. Eash recipe choosen embodies an element of the Christmas spirit that is inhabited by all of us. 

The first recipe to try, the Classic Gingerbread Cookies, the recipe is written in easy to follow steps that are not complicated. Measurements are easily identified next to the ingredients and written in such a manner that you cannot miss a step or ingredient as you work through the steps. There is a clear indication on the yield of the recipe, time preparing and total cooking time are listed just under the recipe name. Nothing beats making Gingerbread men and women and decorating them with children or even as a couples activity. 

For the more traditional recipes, there is the Stollen, which is the only recipe that takes 4 days to complete. The steps are easy to follow again and you wouldn’t know that it has taken you that long to make it. The most pressing time consuming part of the recipe is soaking the dried fruits overnight and then letting the dough rest and rise a few times before baking in the oven. Although, I would immediately bypass a recipe that is very time consuming, I will be tackling this recipe during the holidays, it yields 2 loaves, so that means there will be plenty to share at Christmas. 

There is a conversion chart at the back of the book before the index, so those who don’t use oz or F in their everyday cooking can easily convert of grams and C. 

This book is really an essential book to have in your library. Start a new family tradition with baking goodies with the family or as part of a couples activity.