Bread & Cakes

One of San Francisco's most talented pastry chefs, and owner of the popular 20th Century Cafe, shares 75 recipes and her secrets for modern spins on the decadent baked goods of Middle Europe-tortes, Kipferl, linzer cookies, strudel, babka, and more-in her debut cookbook.

Fabulous recipes for every dessert imaginable, with ideas for all occasions, with 1600 photographs.

Ice cream, iced desserts, pies, tarts, cheesecakes, cakes, gateaux, pastries, fruit desserts and hot puddings.

Recognised as one of the world's best bakers, Global Baker Dean Brettschneider defines his baking style as New World baking--a mix of tradition and innovation. In New World Baking: My Time in Shanghai Dean Brettschneider shares his best recipes for breads, pastries and cakes that delight the cosmopolitan crowds in Shanghai day after day.Categorised by the dining experience--breakfast, lunch and dinner--you can now plan your baking around mealtimes and serve up a Deluxe Fruit and Nut Loaf or an Italian Bomboloni for breakfast, a Mushroom, Tomato and Cheese Brioche Tart or a Pumpkin and Cumin Turkish Pide for lunch and an Orange Pine Nut Polenta Cake or an Aniseed and Black Sesame Seed Petite Baguette for dinner.

This cookbook includes recipes and pictures of Helen's favorite family recipes.Included are appetizers, soups, salads, breads, casseroles, entrees and desserts taste tested by family, firemen, policemen, shut-ins, church family and her many neighbors and friends.Recipes include Brie en Croute, Reuben Crescent Bake, Eggplant Casserole, Vanilla Pudding, Gingerbread Men Cookies, Sugar Cookies, Jalapeno Poppers, Patriotic Jell-O Salad, Cheese Braid Coffee Cake, Swan Lemon Cream Puffs, Baked Chicken Salad Wreath and many more. Many of these recipes have won ribbons at county fairs and other competitions as shown here. Now in her mid-eighties, this is Helen's legacy to her five children, eleven grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.Enjoy!