by Rose Levy Beranbaum

Just baked the banana muffins from Rose Levy Beranbaum's Bread Bible and they taste amazing. But... The top has a beautiful crumb, but as you get close to the bottom they get soggy and dense. I followed the directions with one...

Nick Malgieri’s books are quite good. Rose Levy Beranbaum has some very good books, although she can be a bit pedantic at time. I like King Arthur’s baking book for yeast doughs and pastry. I have the CIA pastry...

-instead-of-butter, because my experience has taught me that you get an inferior product. You are free to give the lecithin a try. I can’t see how it can hurt. Another route is to go with a cake recipe that’s heavy on...

How about lemon bars? Epicurious has a really good recipe for lemon bars with coconut in them which I’ll link below. These are pretty easy to make. And I really like the lemon bars called The Ultimate Lemon Butter Bar but...

Levy Beranbaum's Raspberry Ganache. I had to add a bit of cream to fix the curdling after I rewarmed it, but it made a really nice ganache. Cheers, Xochitl10

It isn’t chocolate cake with a raspberry filling, but check out the Chocolate Oblivion Truffle Torte in Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cake Bible. It’s an unbelievably dense chocolate mousse-like cake that I serve with her...

In “The Pie and Pastry Bible”, Rose Levy Beranbaum states that "if the dough has been refrigerated for more than 30 minutes, it will be too cold to roll or press without cracking. It can take as long as 40 minutes at...

Head to the library. If you can find them, Desserts by Nancy Silverton and Mastering the Art of French Pastry by Paul Bugat and Bruce Healy both have recipes for Napoleons (called Mille feuilles in Bugat and Healy). Also, Rose...

Sounds like either the syrup is too hot or you’ve added too much of it to the egg whites at first. Here’s a link to Rose Levy Beranbaum's excellent instructions for making buttercream: Link:...

I’m heading home for Thanksgiving. This year, I want to cook Rose Levy Beranbaum's persimmon pie recipe. Is there a place in metropolitan Wilmington DE to find decent-quality persimmons? I could buy them very easily where I...

WILL make a difference. You can mail order White Lily, or I think Rose Levy Beranbaum has a formula for mixing all purpose flour with either cake flour or Wondra to approximate a soft wheat flour.(In the Pie and Pastry cookbook)

Since you don’t post an e-mail address, I’m shooting this to you here, but I hope other would-be bakers are listening, too. Get yourself a copy of The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum. It’s available in...

You can’t go wrong with The Cake Bible, by Rose Levy Beranbaum. Every recipe works, she explains things clearly, and even if things seem to complicated or too many steps—the results are worth it! I just noticed you...

Decided to make Hazelnut Brown Butter Cake from Suzanne Goins' Sunday Suppers at Lucques this morning, and after trying a new (to me) way of skinning hazelnuts I wanted to share it with y’all. Found it in Rose Levy...