Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Dedication and Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One -- A Baking Primer -- Fundamental Baking Techniques -- Essential Equipment -- Ingredients -- Part Two -- Blue-Ribbon Worthy -- Banana-Bottom Pineapple-Swirl Cupcakes -- Bishop's Cake -- Blueberry Muff ins with Doughnut Topping -- Heavenly Brownie-on-Shortbread Bars -- Double-Crust Butter-Pecan Apple Pie -- Chocolate-Chip Cookie Cake -- Any Day All-Occasion Snack Cake -- Fresh Mint Brownies -- Walnut Breton Cake -- Kouign Amman Express Pastries -- Tangy Lemon Custard Tart with Pomegranate Gelée -- Peanut Butter Pound Cake with Coconut-Date Topping -- Pecan-Pine Nut Tassie Crostata -- Fresh Pineapple Crumble Cake -- Cinnamon Bubble Buns -- Almond-Rhubarb Snack Cake -- Strawberry-Mango Shortcakes with Basil Syrup -- Tender Butter Cake with Nut-Crunch Topping -- Red Velvet Cake Roll -- Crowd-Pleasing Favorites -- Mocha-Almond O'Marble Cake -- Triple-Ginger Gingerbread -- Classic Butter Cake Cupcakes with White Chocolate-Sour Cream Frosting -- Spicy Applesauce Cake -- Prune Plum-Apricot Oversized Frangipane Tart -- Banana-Split Cream Pie -- Butterscotch Spiral Coffee Cake -- Congo Brownies -- Swiss Engadiner Squares -- Luscious Lime Bars with Milk Chocolate Glaze -- Millionaire's Shortbread -- Flourless Banana Chiffon Cake -- Raspberry Sheet Cake -- Chocolate-Sour Cream Pound Cake with Cheesecake Swirl -- Brown Sugar-Almond Slices -- Inside-Out Chocolate Layer Cake -- Special Spritz Cookies -- Orange Chiffon Tweed Cake with Milk 'n' Honey Sabayon -- Double-Crust Sweet Ricotta Galette -- Five-Layer Checkerboard Cake with Dark Chocolate Ultra-Satin Frosting -- Baking for a Rainy Day -- Peanut Butter Crunch Cake, Squared -- Quintessential Cheese Blintzes -- Over-the-Top Super-Duper Ice Cream Sandwiches -- Bundernuss Torte -- Dark Chocolate Baby Cakes.

Sunshine Orange Semifreddo -- Frozen Lemon Glacier -- Great Peanut Butter Grated-Dough Bars -- Frozen Fruit Rainbow Terrine -- Lily's Extraordinary Linzer Tart -- Chocolate Marquise with Graham Crackers -- Naomi's Date-Nut Slices -- Peppermint Candy Ice Cream Cake Roll -- Pumpkin Ice Cream Prof i teroles with Caramel Sauce -- Mile-High Cheesecake -- Hearth and Home All Day Long -- Banana Streusel Snack Cake -- Focaccia for Breakfast -- Popovers with Bourbon-Buttermilk Sauce -- Rhubarb, Apple, and Raspberry Jalousie -- Lemon-Scented Pull-Apart Coffee Cake -- Maple-Pecan Medjool Date Rugelach -- Old-World Braided Coffee Cake -- Overnight Cinnamon Buns -- Pain d'Épices -- Bohemian Kolaches -- Apricot Flaky Scones -- Spicy Citrus Swirly Buns -- Croissant Cinnamon Sticks -- Coconut Twist Coffee Cake -- Ready to Share -- Eggnog Pound Cake with Crystal Rum Glaze -- Almond Tea Cake with Tangerine Glaze -- Evie Lieb's Processor Challah -- Banana-Poppy Seed Cake -- Spicy Yogurt Pound Cake -- Cheery Cherry Chocolate Tart -- Pumpkin Strudel -- Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Spearmint-Lime Glaze -- Cyrano Chocolate Cake -- Autumn Dried Fruit-Nut Tart -- Fruit-Studded Cornmeal Cake -- Gingerbread-Pecan Tart -- Deluxe Lemon-Lavender Mail-a-Cake -- World-Traveling Crispy ANZAC Cookies -- Maple-Pecan Custard Pie -- Old-Time Pound Cake with Candied Cranberry-Pineapple-Ginger Topping -- Chocolate Lover's Angel Food Cake -- Ultimate Cappuccino Cheesecake -- Blackberry-Blueberry Chiffon Cream Pie -- Minced-Fruit Strudel -- Farmers' Market Fresh -- Top-of-the-Crop Blackberry-Ginger Pie -- Warm Mixed Cherry Clafouti -- Golden Blueberry Cake -- Rhubarb-Cherry-Raspberry Crumb Pie -- Double-Crust White Peach-Polenta Tart with Sweetened Crème Fraîche -- Open-Faced Apple Galette with Quince Paste -- Brown Butter Pear Tart -- Pastry-Topped Fig and Nectarine Cobbler.

Flag-Raising Mixed-Berry Potpies -- Sour Cream Custard Tart -- Rustic Sweet-Potato Crostata -- Almost-Last-Minute Summer Fruit Crumble -- Stone-Fruit Cobbler with Cornmeal Biscuits -- Apricot-Almond-Berry Buckle -- 24-Karat Cupcakes with Orange Cream Cheese Icing -- Singular Sensations -- Apple Cider Baby Chiffon Cakes -- Banana-Coconut Upside-Down Cupcakes -- Butterscotch-Pecan Mini Pies -- Cheesecake Timbales -- Chocolate-Dipped Cheesecake-sicles -- Coffee Cup Tiramisu -- Miniature Financier Teacups with Candied Kumquats -- Flaky Lemon-Marshmallow Turn-overs -- Double-Cranberry Mini Cakes -- Hand Galettes with Assorted Fruit -- Brown Butter Bundtlettes -- Persimmon Bread Puddings -- Three Cheers for Tiny Pumpkin Pies -- Crème Fraîche Custard with Lacy Brûlée Wafers -- A Dessert from Down Under with a Patriotic American Filling -- Fruit Cocktail Trifles with Crème Anglaise -- Year-Round Little Peach Pies -- Milk Chocolate S'More Tartlets with Homemade Marshmallow Topping -- Say It with Cookies -- Bonnie's Best-Selling Almond Tuiles -- Cacao Nib Meringue Kisses -- Chocolate Chip Cookie Logs -- Chocolate-Vanilla Swirl Cookies -- Trufflewiches -- "Be My Valentine" Heartwiches -- Fruit-Nut Florentine Cookie Triangles -- Simply Sweet Diamants -- Heart-to-Heart-to-Heart Cookies -- Golden Gingersnap Stars -- Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies -- Nancy's Brown Butter Buttons -- Neapolitan Bars -- Buttery Rosette Cookies -- Cookie-Dough Hamantaschen -- Susie's Raspberry Jam Squares -- Espresso Shortbread-by-the-Dozen -- Scalloped Butter Cookies with Pistachio-Rose Water Glaze -- Ultimate Coconut Macaroons -- Mexican Wedding Cookies -- Gingery Crumb Wedges -- Red Letter Day Desserts -- Coffee-Toffee Celebration Cake -- Chocolate Roulade with Chocolate Diplomat Cream -- Dulce de Tres Leches Fiesta Cake with Red Fruit Sauce.

Heirloom Banana Layer Cake with Prune Plum Filling and Seafoam Frosting -- Cupid's Strawberry Cake with Cream Cheese Buttercream -- Black Forest Cake -- Rhubarb and Pistachio Tart -- Black-Bottom Praline Chiffon Pie -- Night and Day Torte -- Deluxe Boston Cream Pie -- Caramel Chocolate Cream Pie -- Dee-luscious Lemon Meringue Pie -- All-American Chocolate Cake with Divinity Frosting and Milk Chocolate Paint -- Flourless Chocolate Torte -- Frangipane Ripple Chocolate Pound Cake -- Creamy Mint Napoleons -- Old-Fashioned Jelly Roll with a Twist -- Part Three -- The Baker's Handbook Basic Recipe Components -- Favorite Buttermilk Cake -- Silver Cake with Poppy Seeds -- Signature Yellow Cake -- Dark Chocolate Cake -- Chocolate Genoise Sheet Cake -- Single-Crust Flaky Pie Pastry -- Double-Crust Flaky Pie Pastry -- All-Butter Flaky Pastry -- Four Pie Crusts at One Time -- Cream Cheese Pastry -- Three Tart Shells at One Time -- Tender Tart Pastry -- Single-Crust Crostata Pastry -- Chocolate Tart Pastry -- Flaky Strudel Pastry -- Croissant Pastry ASAP -- PDQ (Pretty Darn Quick) Puff Pastry -- Crème Anglaise -- Lemon Curd -- Sweet Potato Puree -- Red-Hot Poached Pears -- Dried Plum-Armagnac Purée -- Part Four -- Sources -- Volume and Weight Measures -- Index by Recipe Categories -- Index -- About the Author -- Copyright.