Joy the Baker Homemade Decadence: Irresistibly Sweet, Salty, Gooey, Sticky, Fluffy, Creamy, Crunchy Treats : A Baking Book

I love this cookbook! I'm a home baker, not a professional. I just enjoy baking so I have a lot of cookbooks that I try new recipes every day. I bought this book, heard if from sallysbakingaddiction blog and since I love Sally and her recipes, I thought this book would be good. And it is! I tried couple of recipes and they all turned out to be delicious. I baked Mango- Rose Cheesecake, Butterscotch Pie and Lavender Palmiers from this book and they were all yummy. Every step is explained with details, and there are great pictures of every recipe. Most of the cookbooks don't have photos for each recipe and that kind of bugs me. I'd like to see what it's going to be in the end because I'm not a pro. I would recommend this book for anyone, for home bakers like me as well as professionals because the recipes are really creative and delicious. anyone could learn something from this book

My copy of Joy's first cookbook Joy the Baker is dog eared from use so I knew I'd have to have a copy of her newest. I made the Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Layer cake from the cover as requested by my daughter for her birthday and it was a huge hit. It looks a bit intimidating at first glance, but Joy guides you though with amazing results. The Basic Three Layer Chocolate Cake and the Salted Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting are the prefect vehicles for the Pretzel Cake. I also made the Graham Cracker Crust to encase the Peanut Butter Pie and my husband was in love with both. The overnight yeasted pancakes and ultimate pancake syrup are to die for. And the Chocolate Pound Cake with Chips and Chocolate Glaze, OH MY! I've just began my delicious journey with this amazing book amd I know if I'm in the mood for a little something sweet this will fulfil that desire. Of course there are other delicious sounding recipes amongst the sweetness and the Roasted Potato Breakfast Nachos are on my to try list soon. Tomorrow morning is the Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread.

I bought this book after my appendectomy with a get well gift card my brother sent me. The pictures are gorgeous, and the blurbs before each recipe are hilarious and sound just like her blog. Since every recipe looks delicious, I've decided I'm going to make them all, whether or not there is an occasion. But today I made the chocolate cake recipe with the chocolate frosting for my son's fifth birthday party and it was INCREDIBLE. Everyone loved it and ate seconds. I left out the espresso powder from both recipes for what I hope are obvious reasons (5 year olds!) but will try it with the next time I make it. I also have made the chocolate malt oatmeal cookies with salted peanuts and the vanilla bean confetti cookies (3 times!) - both delicious! If you like to bake delicious things that are just a little bit out of the box, buy this book!

Some nice flavor combinations rescue this rather basic collection ,that and her sweet history of learning to cook from childhood. I would buy it again or recommend it to those who enjoy reading cookbooks.

We love this book! It's full of amazing recipes, beautiful photos and made with great paper.As a beginner baker I found it easy to follow along - we made a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving with it and it was incredible!We also made some apple pie and a few other recipes out of the book. It's full of recipes for brunch, pies, cakes, cookies, you name it. Joy's style is so great too with the way she writes and engages her readers - it's funny and easy to follow for any level of baker.

I love not only the amazing and drool-worthy photos in here, but the pages of recipes of basic recipes (pie crust, yellow cake, etc.) & baking know-how at the beginning of the book.Definitely a keeper! The recipe for yellow cake is worth the price alone of this book—my husband’s favorite!

This book offers a wide range of awesome recipes for desserts, drinks, and savory brunch foods. Each recipe has a fun and quirky description of each food from Joy's perspective. This book also offers basic advice for how to brown butter and how to maintain a skillet, which are important for novice bakers like myself. There are also great pictures of each recipe, which are honestly the most important deciding factors I use when I'm trying to decide what to bake.

I bought this book as a Christmas gift for my daughter-in-law. She's a wonderful cook and baker and loves learning all she can about the baking craft. I browsed through the book; my mouth watered at the beautiful desserts, and I'm looking forward to sampling them just as soon as my daughter-in-law whips up some of these recipes.What I can say is that my daughter-in-law requested this book. She's a very educated young woman and always does her due diligence before buying something, and she would never ask for something she didn't already know was well worth the money. So I would say, you can't go wrong here. These confections are beautiful and, I'm sure, taste wonderfully.

Love this book, good , easy recipes, beautiful PHOTOS!

Fantastic book! Thank you!

Tipiche ricette americane, alcune molto fantasiose, le dosi sono in cups ed alcuni ingredienti sono introvabili qui, ma cercherò di adattare le ricette.Il libro è arrivato rovinato da un profondo graffio sul dorso (probabilmente fatto con un taglierino) ma avendolo pagato la metà di quando l'avevo messo in wishlist mesi fa ed essendo per me, non l'ho restituito.

Gorgeous book! The recipes are interesting, inspired, and of course delicious. I haven't found a recipe of Joy's that hasn't turned out and I doubt her book will let me down.

Oh wow - true food porn!