Magnolia Bakery Cookbook: Old Fashioned Recipes from New York's Sweetest Bakery »

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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.

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 Carmel 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.

Introduction

Helpful Hints

Muffins, Buns, and Quick Breads

Corn Muffins • Oatmeal Muffins • Blueberry Muffins • Dried-Cherry Crumb Buns • Glazed Breakfast Buns • Sour Cream Breakfast Buns • Apple Pecan Quick Bread • Cranberry Orange Bread • Poppy Seed Bread • Chocolate Chip Peanut Banana Loaf

Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies • Chocolate-Covered Log Cookies • Chocolate Drop Cookies with Heath Bars, Vanilla Chips, and Pecans • Iced Molasses Cookies • Peanut Butter Cookies • Peanut Butter Cup Cookies • Oatmeal Raisin Almond Cookies • Almond Crescent Cookies • Orange Vanilla Chip Cookies • White Chocolate Coconut Macadamia Cookies

Squares and Bars

Lemon Bars • Strawberry Oat Bars • Raspberry Crumb Squares • Vanilla Pecan Brownies • Chocolate Brownies with Cream Cheese Icing • Fudge Brownies with White Chocolate, Toffee, and Pecans • Butterscotch Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies • Caramel Pecan Brownies • Peanut Butter Heath Bar Blondies • Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies • Magic Cookie Bars

Layer Cakes

Old-Fashioned White Cake • Traditional Vanilla Birthday Cake • Lemon Layer Cake • Coconut Layer Cake • Hummingbird Cake • Maple Walnut Layer Cake with Fluffy Maple Frosting • Apple Walnut Cake with Caramel Cream Cheese Icing • Chocolate Buttermilk Layer Cake • Devil's Food Cake • German Chocolate Cake

Other Cakes

Lemon Vanilla Bundt Cake • Chocolate Amaretto Bundt Cake • Chocolate Sour Cream Cake with Chocolate Chips • Poppy Seed Coffee Cake • Dump Cake • Pear Pecan Cake • Aunt Daisy's Fresh Fruit Torte

Icings, Fillings, and Frostings

Traditional Vanilla Buttercream • Chocolate Buttercream • Lemon Buttercream • Seven-Minute Icing • Cream Cheese Icing • Chocolate Glaze • Basic Creamy Custard Filling • Butterscotch Filling • Lemon Curd Filling • Caramel

Cheesecakes

Crumb-Topped Cheesecake • Caramel Pecan Cheesecake • Heath Bar Almond Crunch Cheesecake • Chocolate Almond Cheesecake • Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake • White Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake • Mocha Rum Cheesecake • Raspberry Marzipan Cheesecake

Pies and a Cobbler

Apple Crumb Pie • Blueberry Crumb Pie • Lime Pie with Gingersnap Crust • Pecan Pie • Sweet Potato Pie • Cheese Pie • Chocolate Pudding Pie • Nectarine Cobbler

Icebox Desserts

Lemon Icebox Pie • Peanut Butter Icebox Pie • Chocolate Wafer Icebox Cake • Chocolate Pudding Trifle • Cream Cheese Chocolate Pudding Squares

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