The Sweeter Side Of Amy's Bread: Cakes, Cookies, Bars, Pastries, and More from New York City’s Favorite Bakery - Hardcover

Dupree, Toy Kim; Scherber, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470170743 ISBN 13: 9780470170748

Publisher: Harvest, 2008

Synopsis

If you’re a fan of famed Manhattan bakery Amy’s Bread, you will love The Sweeter Side of Amy's Bread, a beautiful cookbook that will show you how to re-create 71 of the bakery’s favorite sweet treats. Bake Amy’s signature scones, muffins, cookies, bars, biscotti, layer cakes, and other treats in the comfort of your own home! With recipes for tasty breakfast fare like Cherry Cream Scones and Pecan Sticky Buns to delectable sweets like Double Chocolate Chip Cookies and Amy's famous "Pink Cake," this book has illustrated color photos to help you along.

About this title

About the Authors

TOY KIM DUPREE was one of the five original bakers at Amy's Bread and currently serves as executive pastry chef and general manager of the bakery's Hell's Kitchen location, where she oversees the production of cookies, cakes, and other sweet treats.

AMY SCHERBER launched Amy's Bread in 1992 from a small storefront in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Today, her bakery operates out of three popular Manhattan locations, including outposts at the Chelsea Market and in Greenwich Village. In addition to her retail cafes, Amy also supplies bread wholesale to more than 300 customers, including many notable New York restaurants and food stores. Amy and her bakery have been widely praised in the media, and she has appeared on Emeril Live, Baker's Dozen, and other television cooking shows. Visit the Amy's Bread Web site at www.amysbread.com.

From the Back Cover

"Step inside one of our three Amy's Bread retail cafés any morning of the week, and you'll be greeted by the pleasing aroma of freshly brewed coffee, the fragrance of toasty bread, and the sweet smell of breakfast pastries that have just been baked. On the antique, hand-painted front counter, wicker baskets are overflowing with nubbly scones, fruit-filled muffins, golden biscuits, Irish Soda Bread, and gooey Pecan Sticky Buns. At one end of the long counter are seemingly endless stacks of large, luscious-looking cookies. Squares of freshly baked brownies and blondies are displayed on trays beside rows of fanciful cupcakes. Cake stands hold six different kinds of old-fashioned layer cakes. It's a gorgeous and bountiful selection of freshly baked products, laid out not only to tempt you, but also to display with pride the fruits of our labor.

"Our intention is to share the way we make our products at Amy's Bread and to teach you some new techniques that work well for us and that we hope will take your baking to a higher level. We think the shapes and sizes, the textures, and the flavors of our products set them apart from many others. We hope thatas you try our recipes you will discover the pleasure of baking sophisticated products that taste as good as they look."
From Amy's Bread

From the Inside Flap

Amy's Bread is a New York institution?a beloved bakery that serves more than 55,000 loyal customers every month at its three Manhattan cafés and also supplies bread to many of the city's finest restaurants and food stores. While Amy's Bread is famous for its breads, it's also renowned for its sweeter side?cakes, cookies, bars, pastries, and other tasty bakery treats. Now Amy and her executive pastry chef show you how to re-create more than 70 of the bakery's trademark goodies in your own kitchen, from delectable breakfast and brunch fare to scrumptious snacks and luscious desserts.

You'll find all of your favorites here?tempting muffins and scones, classic cookies and bars, old-fashioned layer cakes, and many more. But Amy's Bread takes these familiar favorites to a whole new level, adding a special touch to each baked treat. You'll discover techniques that ensure ideal textures, ingredient combinations that add new flavor dimensions, and tips that guarantee picture-perfect results. The chefs in Amy's Bread's kitchens have painstakingly developed and tested every recipe in the book?and thousands of customers have already declared the finished products superb.

Illustrated throughout with more than 100 gorgeous color photographs, The Sweeter Side of Amy's Bread gives you the know-how you need to create all kinds of memorably delicious baked goods. For crowd-pleasing breakfasts, try Oat Scones with Cranberries and Walnuts, Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins, Pecan Sticky Buns, or Chocoholic Twists. For outrageously delicious snacks, treat yourself to White Chocolate Cherry Chunker Cookies, Lime Cornmeal Cookies, Gooey Coconut Dream Bars, or Toasted Hazelnut Biscotti with Citrus Zest and Pepper. And for spectacular desserts, you can't go wrong with Definitely Devil's Food Cake, Plum Upside-Down Cake, Rustic Mini Peach Pies, or the famous Amy's Bread "Pink Cake." There are even recipes for some tempting savory items, such as Cheese Biscuits and Spinach Mushroom Quiche, which are perfect for an elegant brunch.

Throughout the book, detailed tips and techniques help you perfect your baking skills, and recipe measurements given in gram and ounce weights as well as traditional dry measures help you achieve consistently excellent results. With guidance and recipes from Amy's Bread, you'll take home baking to new heights?and create unforgettable sweet treats.

Reviews

Starred Review. Scherber opened the first Amy's Bread 16 years ago, selling wonderful artisan-style breads from a small storefront in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, and her first book, Amy's Bread, also written with Dupree, provides recipes for making the breads in a home kitchen. Today she has three shops and a huge commercial bakery that supplies breads to many of the city's best restaurants and food markets, and over the years, she and Dupree, now executive pastry chef, have added sweet treats to their offerings: Cherry Cream Scones, Double Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Coconut Cream Cake, to name a few. There are also recipes for newer savory items, including delectable Cheese Biscuits. Recipe instructions are detailed and clear, with dozens of helpful tips, and the stories about the bakery and some of its special customers are fun to read. For all baking collections.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Harvest
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470170743
• ISBN 13: 9780470170748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272