The Magnolia Bakery Handbook: A Complete Guide for the Home Baker

This is a beautiful cookbook! It is table top worthy! The recipe photos are stunning and the recipes are easy to understand, especially for new bakers.This cookbook would be a wonderful gift for soon- to- be brides or a lovely house-warming gift!thi

Excellent book. So many variations for different recipes. The banana pudding variations are a definite try. She has great buttercream recipes.

Love the variety of recipes. There are sections on cakes, cupcakes, cookies, brownies & bars, pies & crisps, muffins & coffee cakes, scones, icebox desserts, and banana pudding. Plus there is information on tips and techniques and base recipes like chocolate wafer crumb crust, apple filling, cinnamon crumb topping and more!Easy to follow recipes with pictures. Highly recommend it for home bakers.

This is my absolute favorite cookbook. It is rare a bakery/restaurant has a cookbook that is easy to cook from. We have made so many things.

I will be trying several of these recipes for my family to sample. I love seeing all of great images of the dishes.

Firstly, the book is big, well made, a beautiful picture on the cover that is actually textured with smooth nearly flat outlines of the decorations on the cake. The pages are not cheap and the font is acceptably sized in my opinion. Not to mention the fact that there are pictures for everything.My issue is the quality of said pictures. You remember tv in the 90's? That tv picture quality was about 480 to our now 1080p or 4k high definition. After 480 we got 720 picture quality in tv's and computers. Okay, still with me? This book has a few 480 but more 720 quality pictures. The picture of the chocolate cake with caramel drizzle is so color saturated the cake looks black, and not in a good deep dark chocolate way. The picture of the chocolate cupcakes are also very dark and dull. The paper here seems to have a semi-sheen on it which is nice, but I think gloss pages would have been nicer. I'm just surprised that the picture quality isn't hd. But like I said most of the pictures are more 720 quality and I appreciate that.

I love adding this to my extensive cookbook collection. Not only does it have recipes but shows step by step pictures. I have been to the Magnolia Bakery and so enjoyed their creations. Looking forward to try my hand at some of these recipes.

Bought as a gift for my mom. She loved it, has great visuals, and instructions to follow