Giveaway: Gluten-Free Baking {Cookbook}

Gluten-Free Baking: Indulgent Baked Treats, Naturally Gluten-Free Goodness

by Kristine Kidd

Publisher: Weldon Owen

Publication Date: December 2014

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Monday, Fun-Day, Cookbook Giveaway! The first day of the week may not be something to get excited about in the work world, but here at Cooks&Books&Recipes it is. Because Monday is my day to give away another gorgeous cookbook!

Today’s cookbook is Gluten-Free Baking, from Williams-Sonoma.

Here’s why you want Gluten-Free Baking: Indulgent Baked Treats, Naturally Gluten-Free Goodness:

Many people expect that gluten-free baked goods will be less delicious and satisfying than those baked with wheat flour. Not so with these recipes, which are just as over-the-top delicious as any you would find in a bakeshop display case. Author Kristine Kidd is a former editor at Bon Appetit and a gourmet chef. When she learned that she had celiac disease, she made it her mission to learn to eat and cook as well as she had before, without skimping on healthy ingredients or flavor.

My favorite things about Gluten-Free Baking? Kidd emphasizes naturally gluten-free ingredients (e.g., eggs, cream, butter, nuts) and oats, rice, buckwheat and sorghum flours instead of prepared gluten-free flour blends. She offers an ingredient primer, a gluten-free pantry guide, basic recipes, and useful tips & tricks, along with chapters including morning treats, breads, cookies & cakes, pies & tarts, and puddings & custards. Plus, this is a Williams-Sonoma cookbook, so it’s filled with scrumptious photos (by Annabelle Breakey).

The Cookbook Basics:

Hardcover (8.5 x 9.5 inches)
128 pages, numerous color photos
Weldon Owen (December 2014)

My next-to-try recipes: Raspberry Oatmeal Muffins; Olive & Sage Flatbread; Blackberry Cornmeal Cake; Pine Nut & Almond Cookies

Looking for a sample recipe?

Bakepedia: Lemon-Curd Almond Cake

Winston-Salem Journal: Seeded Irish Soda Bread; Almond-Oat Lace Cookies

About the Author:

Kristine Kidd was Bon Appétit magazine’s Food Editor for twenty years, after working as a chef, running a catering business, and teaching at cooking schools. She has written eight cookbooks for Williams-Sonoma and Time-Life, most recently focusing on gluten-free cooking. (Want more gluten-free goodness recipes for all types of dishes? Check out her website!)

Cookbook Giveaway:

There are seven ways to enter the giveaway, but it’s not necessary to do all seven entries. Choose whichever one(s) you like, and you’ll be entered in the giveaway. The winner, to be randomly selected and notified by e-mail, must claim the cookbook within 10 days. Giveaway ends on Monday, April 11, 2016. U.S. addresses, 18+ years of age only.

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