Friday, October 10, 2014

Sweets: A Food Network Magazine Cookbook Review

I recently had the pleasure to review another awesome Food Network recipe book. I love their books, because I can always count on some really great recipes. Sweet: Our Best Cupcakes, Cookies, Candy and More did not disappoint.

When I first looked through this book, I was almost overwhelmed (in a good way) by all of the gorgeous photos and delicious looking treats. Every single recipe has at least one large photo, so it's easy to browse through quickly and decide what you want. As if that wasn't enough, the contents sections has little photos of each recipe, so you don't even have to remember what it was called to look up its page number.

I love pretty much everything about this book! There are multiple levels of difficulty and convenience throughout. There are recipes that you can buy everything at the store and simply throw it together and there are recipes that you make completely from scratch, but they make even some of the most daunting sounding recipes look a lot easier.

There's even a chapter on 3D cakes. Those of you that have been around for awhile and follow me on instagram, know that I often make 3D cakes for birthdays. This book has instructions for 17 different "fake-out" cakes. When Zeke saw them he went nuts telling me which ones he wanted for his birthday...in March. It's currently a tie between the Cheeseburger Cake and the Pencil Cake.


Their other chapters include: Cupcakes & Whoopie Pies, Cookies & Bars, Candy & Snacks, Pies & Crumbles, Show-Off Cakes, Frozen Treats, and Holiday Desserts. For the purpose of this review, I made the Salted Caramel-Pretzel Thumbprints. I made them primarily for a group of friends and their reports were all extremely positive and one woman even suggested I make a batch to take over to her house.



 I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review. All opinions are my own.

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