SALES HANDLE: Gourmet and gluten-free -- these words don't usually go together. Until now. Experience 78 delicious recipes for classic American desserts and gorgeous French pastries, from layer cakes to muffins -- all made without gluten, in one beautifully photographed and illustrated package. * Competitive titles are crunchy (read: ugly). This book is gorgeous. * Author is well-regarded and beautiful. She has French pastry chops and the shop is in Austin. She's established a blog presence: http://blackbird-bakery.com/topic/baking/ * Blackbird Bakery has a celebrity following, including: Ben Harper, Laura Dern, David Arquette, Courteney Cox Arquette, Kelly Slater, and Island Def Jam. (See sales info for list of gluten/wheat-free celebs and other benefits of a wheatless diet)
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Karen Morgan's now-ex-husband, Tim Morgan, trained at La Varenne, the legendary cooking school founded by Anne Willan in Paris, France. Karen trained in pastry with Tim. In 2002, she was diagnosed with celiac disease and struggled to find desserts she could bake or consume. She began devising her own recipes. After cooking in France for four months in 2006, she started her food blog, The Art of Gluten-Free Cooking. Karen opened Blackbird Bakery, a custom gluten-free bake shop that caters special events, in 2008.
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By Zan
Format:Hardcover
The recipes are written in cups, and you need to find a supplier of tapioca and sorghum flour and guar gum, all of which are in nearly every recipe. I can't find guar gum, but I substituted the inferior Xanthan Gum, and it seems to work ok. There are other flours you need for each different recipe, like chestnut flour, millet flour, glutinous rice flour and chickpea flour. If none of this daunts you, and you crave the texture of gluten-full goodies, then believe me this book is worth it. So far, I've tried the ginger gingerbread, used the sponge recipe from the blackberry-lemon trifles and made the pecan banana bread. They have all been delicious and indistinguishable from the best of gluten-full equivalents, so my husband says. Since owning the book, I've been following the author on her blog and here she more recently admits that to get consistent measures of flour, she fluffs the flours up before scooping the cups and that weighing is the better way to go, so maybe in future her recipes will be in grammes. Progress! This is also a lovely book to browse with beautiful photographs. It's smaller than a large coffee table book at around 20x20cm. It would make a great gift for any serious gluten-free baker. But not one for the casual baker based on the range of ingredients required.
By Jo
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This is a well presented book with lots of tasty looking recipes, but I was disappointed with the fact that it tends to be 'Americanised' with some of its ingredients-perhaps I didn't research enough though!
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By jenn
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My mom bought this book for me a week ago. I've tried 3 recipes from it. All of them have come out so well. I tried the onion tart, Apricot Clafoutis (couldn't find apricots, so I used cherries), and lemon bars. Another review mentioned all of the ingredients. Most of the ingredients should be staples of a gf kitchen. To really bake gf from scratch you do need a quite a few ingredients. It does use dairy and I didn't try any substitutions. Once I've tried the recipe a few times I will try to tweak it. If you're looking for gf, dairy free and sugar free try The Spunky Coconut. So far I'm thrilled with the book and highly recommend it. Give it a go if you enjoy baking.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I love this book!!
11 Feb 2011
By ScottS986
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Format:Hardcover
The recipes are organized and clear. The photos and layout make it a joy to read. Most importantly, the recipes are delicious! My favorites are the Lemon Rosemary cookies, the Apple Pie, and the Sunday Morning Pancakes. A bonus tip is that if you are looking for a Classic Vanilla cupcake recipe, just use the cupcake base in the Caramel Cupcake recipe. The author was super nice and even answered some questions I had emailed about a recipe. I highly recommend this book!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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At last !
3 Mar 2011
By C. Vincent
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Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Gluten free foods and pastries that taste like the things I hated giving up. It is easy to stay away from gluten in meat and vegetable dishes...but pastries and breads ?!?! And so much of the bread you buy at the store goes into the trash after one slice. But these recipes put joy back into eating desserts and pastries.
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