The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook: Old Fashioned Recipes from New York's Sweetest Bakery details from infibeam

A treasure trove of deliciously old-fashioned and deeply satisfying recipes for more than 75 unabashedly self-indulgent desserts.
On the corner of Bleecker and Eleventh Streets in the heart of Greenwich Village sits the Magnolia Bakery. This unassuming shop, where the smells of home-style baking weaken even the strongest will, has attracted a clientele that ranges from kids on their way home from school to celebrity glitterati. Cupcakes swirled with pastel frosting crowd the counter, and cakestands display Lemon Vanilla Bundt Cake, Apple Walnut Cake with Caramel Cream Cheese Icing, and Coconut Layer Cake, swathed in fluffy white frosting and covered in drifts of coconut. As "Time Out New York" says: "The secret to Magnolia's success is simple: Nobody knows how to bake like this anymore."Magnolia's owners Jennifer Appel and Allysa Torey know how, and in "The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook" they share their most mouth-watering recipes, from sweet breakfast treats like Dried-Cherry Crumb Buns to classic Iced Molasses Cookies, from decadently rich Caramel Pecan Brownies and Raspberry Marzipan Cheesecake to refreshing Lemon Icebox Pie. Their easy-to-follow recipes and invaluable baking hints mean that even the inexperienced baker will be able to frost the perfect layer cake, turn out the flakiest pie crust, and whip up the creamiest cheesecake. Illustrated with eight pages of glorious color photographs, "The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook" will inspire you to turn on the oven and create sweet memories for your family and friends.About the Author :Jennifer Appel has contributed to The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook: Old Fashioned Recipes from New York's Sweetest Bakery as an author. .

Allysa Torey has contributed to The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook: Old Fashioned Recipes from New York's Sweetest Bakery as an author. Allysa Torey and Jennifer Appel are the founders of the Magnolia Bakery in New York City, which now has two additional stores. In 1999 Jennifer Appel left to open Buttercup Bake Shop, which has two locations in Manhattan, where she resides with her husband Hernan and her daughter Isabel. Allysa Torey sold Magnolia Bakery in 2007, and currently lives with her son Wilson Henry in upstate NY, where she spends her time writing, cooking, gardening, and taking long walks through the hayfields with her collies Sam, Daisy and Honey.