The Complete Canadian Living Baking Book is the gold-standard, go-to book that Canadian bakers can depend on for all their baking projects. It celebrates the pleasure of home baking and Canada’s vibrant baking tradition, and reflects the excellence of the tested-till-perfect baking recipes that Canadian Living readers love and rely on.

It includes 7 comprehensive chapters, each themed around a specific baking category. The book opens with an introduction to the essentials of home baking including baking ingredients, equipment and techniques. It contains approximately 100 colour photographs throughout of beautiful photos of finished products and a selection of helpful, instructive step-by-step shots of baking techniques. The recipes are written for home bakers with clear instructions and full nutrient analysis of each and they have been tested-till-perfect!

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NOMINEE 2009 - Cuisine Canada Culinary Book Awards -- Best Cookbook

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Chapters include:

Cookies, Bars & Squares (new and best-ever classics)

Cakes (layer cakes, cheesecakes, Bundt cakes, cupcakes and tortes)

Pies & Pastries (short and sweet pastries, phyllo, puff pastry and choux pastry)

Yeast Breads (loaves including sourdough, buns, pizzas and flatbreads)

Quick Breads (scones, muffins, loaves)

Spoon Desserts (crisps, crumbles, custards, pudding cakes)

Sauces & Embellishments (sauces, garnishes, etc.)

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Elizabeth Baird is the Executive Food Editor of Canadian Living Magazine and was the magazine’s food editor for more than 20 years. She is Canada’s foremost expert on Canadian cooking and the foods of Canada. She is the author of several best-selling cookbooks, including The Canadian Living Complete Cookbook, Canadian Living Make It Tonight and The Complete Canadian Living Christmas Book. In addition, Elizabeth was the one of the hosts of Canadian Living Cooks on Food Network Canada. She’s delighted to share her lifelong passion for baking in this new cookbook.

The Canadian Living Test Kitchen combines the talents and expertise of Canada’s top chefs and home economists in the country’s largest media test kitchen. They research, develop and test 1,000 recipes per year, with the goal of making life easier — and delicious — for Canadians in their kitchens. And with all their recipes tested till perfect — Canadian Living guarantees that what works in our kitchen will work in yours.

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