Baking for dummies / Wendy Jo Peterson.

Includes index.

Baking essentials -- Bake, for goodness' sake -- Stocking up -- Going over the gear -- Basic training for baking -- Familiarizing yourself with your oven -- Focusing on basic techniques -- Considering allergies and insensitivities when baking -- Getting ready to bake -- Ready, set bake -- Understanding the ins and outs of baking cookies -- Baking moist cakes -- Fixing fabulous frostings -- Preparing perfect pies and tarts -- Creating crisp, cobblers, and other delights -- Making quick breads, muffins, and biscuits -- Rising with yeast breads -- Going savory with baked goods -- Baking with mixes and premade doughs -- Dealing with other important stuff -- Storing your creations -- Making the ordinary extraordinary -- The parts of tens -- Ten ways to boost nutrition when baking -- Ten ways to get kids baking.

"Baking For Dummies is your go-to source for basic instructions and easy-to-follow recipes. Learn to make delicious and impressive cookies, cakes, breads, cupcakes, frostings, pies, muffins, cobblers, quiches, and beyond. Elevate your next get together by crafting a dessert charcuterie board or serving decadent individual quiches, savory scones, and homemade rolls-it's a step up from store bought cookies and cakes, for sure. In this low-key Dummies guide, you'll find lists of basic ingredients and essential equipment, plus explanations of baking techniques and definitions of baking terms and techniques you'll need to know. This book also covers basic kitchen prep, time-saving tricks, kid-friendly baking recipes, allergy and dietary modifications-this book has it all"-- Provided by publisher.