Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America

Review
"…a reassuringly substantial volume, carefully informative, with glossy color photos giving step-by-step guidance.." (Associated Press, December 10, 2004)

This gorgeous cookbook makes delicious perfection look doable. Replete with artful color photos of flawless custards, silky glazes and deftly done tortes, it also includes expert tips and techniques. (USA Today, November 25, 2004)

Review
"…a reassuringly substantial volume, carefully informative, with glossy color photos giving step-by-step guidance.." (Associated Press, December 10, 2004)

"This gorgeous cookbook makes delicious perfection look doable." (USA Today, November 25, 2004)

Book Description
A complete, illustrated volume of lessons and recipes for the home baker.

The Culinary Institute of America is the place where many of today's leading chefs and pastry chefs have learned the fundamental skills that launched their careers. Now, in this companion to Cooking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America, the CIA draws on its extensive expertise and experience to give home bakers an outstanding course in the essentials of baking, along with a wealth of irresistible recipes. It outlines all the basic information on equipment, ingredients, and methods necessary to create top-quality cakes, pastries, breads, frozen desserts, and more. Readers learn the techniques step by step, with detailed instructions and photographs that clearly explain what to do and how to do it.

Ideal for developing skills and building a repertoire, the book's 200 recipes - all specially created by the CIA - are delicious, attractive, and easy to make, from Cream Scones and Streusel-Topped Blueberry Muffins to Flourless Chocolate Souffle Cake and Warm Lemon Pudding Cakes.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

When aspiring chefs enter the baking and pastry programs at The Culinary Institute of America, they emerge with a wide repertoire of both classic and modern baked goods. More importantly, they acquire a deep understanding of the baking process that enables them to alter and improve a baked good or develop an exciting new creation, expressing their own personality and vision. The secret is discovering the basic techniques that form the foundation of all baking and pastry. Under the guidance of the expert chefs of the CIA, baking and pastry students learn how the interplay of common ingredients, mixing methods, and heat can be vaned in subtle ways to produce the countless desserts and breads we know and enjoy. The students come to appreciate the small adjustments and leaps of imagination they can make to find freedom within the strict confines of this exacting practice.

Now, Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America allows curious home bakers to follow in the footsteps of the graduates of the country is leading culinary college. The chefs of the CIA have distilled the best of their teachings into these pages, offering clear explanations of the essential baking methods that will broaden your understanding of how baking really works. The streamlined recipes and dozens of how-to photographs enable you to dive in and gain the hands-on practice that is an essential part of any baking and pastry education. And you'll start to understand the connections, when you're creaming butter to make Citrus Shortbread or a multilayered Chocolate Sabayon Torte, or cooking sugar into caramel for an elegant Coffee Pot de Creme or a crunchy Nut Brittle. Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America is an indispensable compendium of lessons and recipes that warrants a place on the cookbook shelf of every enthusiastic home baker.

The Culinary Institute of America, founded in 1946, has earned its reputation as the world's premier culinary college. More than 2,000 students from across the country and around the world study at the CIA campus in Hyde Park, New York, and more than 6,000 food and wine professionals pursue continuing education programs each year at Hyde Park and at the CIA's branch campus, Greystone, in California's Napa Valley. The CIA offers all of its students a high-quality professional education.

FROM THE CRITICS

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