Baker bettie's better baking book

I bought this book for myself, but I can't wait to share it with others! It covers so many beginner topics and has so many great recipes! I can't wait to make them all!

I discovered Baker Bettie through this book and now I regularly peruse her website for baking ideas as well.The template recipes are simply awesome. Making these recipes teaches you to design your own as you move from your first simple modifications to the template towards adding new ingredients not listed in the book. I have fallen down so many baking rabbit holes thanks to this book.You can use the quick bread recipes in this book to bake loaves and muffins with the recipes as written, or you can add a few tablespoons of flour to the dry ingredients and make baked donuts! Every recipe is so versatile.People compliment my baking all the time thanks to this book. My most complimented recipe is a variation of the fruit and veg quick bread made with apple as the base ingredient, warm spices, and raisins that have soaked in dark rum for weeks.If you are a gluten free baker I recommend you measure your flour by volume rather than by weight as gluten free flour has a different weight to volume ratio than regular flour. That is the one criticism I have of this book, it suggests replacing regular flour with GF but does not specify that the weights will be all wrong.

So far the only thing I’ve made from this book is the cheesecake and it’s convinced me to use a scale more for baking. Good book for those looking for more baking techniques.

Followed Baker Betty on Youtube for a while. She is a very good teacher. Teaches what makes recipes tick and how to adjust them to suit. Book continues this instruction.

I've been baking for a little while now, but I never learned the why with a lot of the steps. I have so many ideas on how to customize recipes and make them my own, but I had no idea how to actually do that without ruining it. This book is makes all those little steps make so much more sense. You won't regret it!