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cookbook giveaway!!!! BAKE! by Nick Malgieri

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Perhaps you’ve heard of Nick Malgieri: former Executive pastry chef of Windows on the World, author of too many cookbooks to count, winner of too many awards to count, current director of the baking program at the Institute of Culinary Education, has cooked on television with the likes of Julia Child and Martha Stewart… Best if you read the long and impressive biography HERE. See? And I got to meet him. Not only meet Mr. Malgieri, but have lunch with Mr. Malgieri. And while I can hope that such baking greatness and knowledge can float across a restaurant table, I’m pleased to have that (transportable) greatness and knowledge packaged between the covers of Mr. Malgieri’s latest book: bake! Essential Techniques for Baking Perfection.

Each of the 20 chapters in bake! opens with an essential technique taught with gorgeous, step-by-step photographs, followed by variations of the master recipes. The result demystifies the world of baking for the timid or fearful, takes it from the hands of professionals and gives it to you and me. Essential techniques include pastry dough and tarts, cookies, puff pastry, breads and rolls, brioche, Danish pastry, cakes, and biscuits. Recipes include a chocolate meringue tart, ground beef empanadas, fig and raspberry croustades (see him making these on Martha), gruyere and walnut bread, pear and ginger cake, devil’s food bombe…

Have I convinced you of the glory? Well, after I got my hands on my very own bake!, you know what I did? Kind, giving moi? I went to the bookstore (actually, two bookstores, as the bookstore by my house has a pitiful cooking section) and bought you a copy, too. With my very own money. Which means no one is paying me to write this rave review. And also because I’m not giving up my courtesy copy. So to…

enter the giveaway:

UPDATE: Contest is now CLOSED.

Leave a comment on this post before Wednesday, November 3, midnight EST
telling me your favorite thing to bake
(If you fear your oven, just tell me what you’d like to learn to bake. I’ll choose a winner randomly, so there’s no real purpose to the question, just my curiosity.)
Optional: If you follow me on twitter,
come back and leave a second comment letting me know and you’ll increase your chances to win.
details:
Be sure to have an email address attached to your profile or a way for me to contact you in case you win! Winner will be chosen randomly.
I’m afraid my funds are limited… so I have to ask for US address only.
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  1. Jason and Abby says

    My favorite thing to bake would probably be cookies. Nothing better than a warm gooey chocolate chip cookie!

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  2. Anonymous says

    I love experimenting with new recipes whether they be savoury or sweet! And I always look for a way to make the recipe healthy(ier) so that I don't feel so guilty if I decide to eat the whole thing myself :)email: jkcat@shaw.ca

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  7. Karen says

    I just finisheed baking for TWO bakesales this weekend and I would have to say my favorite thing to bake are cupcakes. My latest favorite–Martha Stewart's pumpkin spice cupcakes–yum!

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  10. Jane says

    I love to bake inventive things I've seen online, since my coworkers aren't as into food blogs as I am and are always incredibly impressed! It's too easy!

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  11. shortoldlady says

    My favorite thing to bake is Chocolate Pudding Cake from scratch! Used to make the one from BC box mix years ago until you couldn't find it anymore. This one is SO MUCH better!!

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  12. dahlhousedesigns says

    I love to bake almost anything… bread, cake, pie, cookies! Huge fan of Nick's and would love this book. Thank you so much for the great giveaway!LisaDahlhousedesigns at yahoo dot com

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  13. Lacy says

    I love too bake but i would have to say cupcakes are my fav to bake.I follow you on twitter. Lacymarie21.Lacymarieconner@hotmail.com

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  15. Bex says

    I love baking pretty much anything! Breads are way up there on the list. Is there anything better than a loaf of sweet white, right out of the oven? I think not. :)(PS – LOVE your blog. Stumbled upon it as a result of The Kitchn's article on your Hween Zombie Mashmallows. Hilarious!)

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  16. shelly says

    My favorite thing to bake is chocolate chip cookies. Boring, I suppose, buy everyone loves them and they make the house smell fabulous. (Without hours and hours of work!)

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  17. Bird R. says

    My favorite thing to bake currently is fresh white bread with sauteed garlic and parmesan cheese. It goes well with dinner every night.melindasr5 at Yahoo dot com

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  18. Bentley says

    I LOVE baking these desserts that my mom has made as long as I can remember. (Thanks Mom!!) They're called Fatty bars, and they are full of yummy German chocolate, gooey caramel, and chocolate chips. So sweet and sensational, and easy to make! Sometimes I just make the dough and eat it raw cause it's so delicious 🙂

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  20. Anonymous says

    That book looks awesome! I would love to become more confident in baking. The best I do now is cookies and cupcakes. monkeyface1@hotmail.com

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