My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My daughter loves to bake. She just turned 17, and is fascinated with cakes, pastries and all things baking. She was teaching herself French, so I thought this would be a great book for her. I was so right! She fell absolutely in love with it!

This book is set up brilliantly in that it builds upon itself. It starts with some essentials, 3 basic batters and moves onto pastry decorating. From there you learn Entrements, then Tarts, Choux, Puff Pastry and Viennoiseries. There are notes, pictures, drawings and more scattered all throughout the book making it a great tool for learning French baking. My daughter was able to easily turn out quality products without any help, just by using this book.

I like to give my highest recommendations to books like this–well written, illustrated and easily followed. This is a great cookbook that I am very happy to highly recommend!

I received a copy of this book from Countryman Press for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.