The owner and chef of L.A.'s famous and successful La Brea Bakery reveals her magical recipes, adapted for home bakers. Before the baking even begins, Silverton takes the reader through the wonder of bread alchemy, then introduces readers to a wide range of recipes which range from the whimsical to the sublime. 25 photos.
"Recipes from the meat-centric menu at Chi Spacca, Nancy Silverton's Los Angeles steakhouse"-- Provided by publisher
The eagerly anticipated baking bible from America's most respected 100+ recipes for cookies, cakes, breads, breakfast pastries, and much more."Nancy Silverton baked a brioche so perfect that it brought Julia Child to tears...Nancy showed us how to strip away the extras and spotlight the essentials. She’s still doing that and we’re all still learning from her." —Dorie Greenspan, author of Dorie's CookiesNancy Silverton made her reputation as the original pastry chef for Wolfgang Puck's restaurant Spago. Biting into a particularly delicious peanut butter cookie one day, she and had an every single thing we bake should taste this good . And so she decided to return to her roots, and set to work perfecting the rest of the American baking canon.From Lattice-Topped Apple Pie to Carrot Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting (the secret? Carrot puree) to Cornbread (is it too much to ask that it actually taste like corn?), she shares recipes for the platonic ideals of our most beloved baked goods.Alongside the classics—Lemon Bars, Key Lime Pie, Layered Buttermilk Biscuits—Silverton includes a handful of her own Double-Decker Chocolate Cookies (double the fun!), Iced Raisin Bars (a better fig newton), and Chocolate Brandy Cake (chocolate and brandy!)—all sure to become future classics. With more than a hundred perfected recipes, The Cookie That Changed My Life is a veritable encyclopedia of the very best things to bake.
"From the restaurateur, acclaimed chef, and beloved author of cookbooks on everything from bread baking to pizza making--most recently, The Mozza Cookbook--comes a delectable new book that explores the recipes that inspired her, after a years-long hiatus, to cook at home again,"--Baker & Taylor.