Geared for the baking beginner, Idiot's Guides: Baking offers a step-by-step, full-color tutorial on cooking basics, conversion information, substitution options (including gluten-free), and dozens of delicious recipes for cookies and cakes, pies and bread, and more. Readers will also learn how make the perfect meringue and how to decorate a cake.
Alexandra Zohn is a master pastry chef, nutritionist, recipe developer, and food writer. A native of Mexico City, Alexandra has a masters in food studies from New York University and specialized in pastry at the New York Restaurant School. After working for the James Beard Foundation and Confetti Cakes, Alexandra founded of Sweet Atelier, a bakery that creates one-of-a-kind custom cakes, and Three Tablespoons, a bakery dedicated to creating mouthwatering treats using healthier baking alternatives. She is also the writer for the The Irony of Baking blog. View titles by Alexandra Zohn

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Geared for the baking beginner, Idiot's Guides: Baking offers a step-by-step, full-color tutorial on cooking basics, conversion information, substitution options (including gluten-free), and dozens of delicious recipes for cookies and cakes, pies and bread, and more. Readers will also learn how make the perfect meringue and how to decorate a cake.

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Alexandra Zohn is a master pastry chef, nutritionist, recipe developer, and food writer. A native of Mexico City, Alexandra has a masters in food studies from New York University and specialized in pastry at the New York Restaurant School. After working for the James Beard Foundation and Confetti Cakes, Alexandra founded of Sweet Atelier, a bakery that creates one-of-a-kind custom cakes, and Three Tablespoons, a bakery dedicated to creating mouthwatering treats using healthier baking alternatives. She is also the writer for the The Irony of Baking blog. View titles by Alexandra Zohn