Baking Favorites: 100+ Sweet and Savory Recipes from Our Test Kitchen

This book is $10 less than at the actual store in the mall. Love these recipes! So many to choose from and pictures make you want to bake them all. Definitely recommend if you like baking. I mean who doesn't like homemade baked items?! We obviously love them.

This book is ideal for novice and experienced bakers. The recipes are well-tested and basically no-fail. There’s a lovely range of both sweet and savory treats. I’m gifting this A LOT this season!

This cookbook follows many other cookbooks in providing volume and weight measurements for ingredients, which is good, until the reader realizes that the book obviously has no clue what they are saying. The first recipe calls for 2¾ cups of all-purpose flour, also noted to weigh 11 oz. or 310 g. Then the second recipe calls for 2 cups of all-purpose flour, also noted to weigh 10 oz or 315 g. Yes, a cup of all-purpose flour has a different weight in consecutive recipes, and using ¾ cups less all-purpose flour will weigh 5 grams more. And an ounce weighs more in the second recipe than in the first recipe. This repeats throughout the book, with a cup of all-purpose flour weighing anywhere from 4 oz. to 6 oz., and anywhere from 113 g. to 180 g. Even the same volume varies in weight in different recipes, with that 2¾ cups of all-purpose flour also noted to weigh 12 oz./340 g. and14 oz./440 g. in other recipes. Nor is this limited to flour, which is notoriously variable in weight because it is compressible, but also to granulated sugar, which is not. In this book, a cup of sugar weighs anywhere from 4 oz. to 9 oz., and anywhere from 120 g. to 272 g. Williams-Sonoma should be embarrassed to release a book with such errors.