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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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  3. Pink Little Cake says

    I am not entering the giveaway because I already have the book, but in fact Mr. Malgieri is a master. I have taken so many classes with him and at every class I learn something new. Wonderful giveaway Meghan.

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  4. Nicole says

    I love to bake cookies. But I want to bake more breads. There's something I really like about making my own fresh bread, oh and then there's the smell!!

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  5. lroyrose says

    I love to bake sugar cookies! I have collected cookie cutters for years and now that I have time (a 6 month old at home–ha ha on time) I have been spending a lot of time baking cookies and I even made cute crosses for my niece's Christening. Very exciting because my sister in law's sister in law asked me to bake crosses for her son's communion ! So exciting! Anyway, decorated cookies are my all time favorite thing to bake! Second would be cupcakes! yumm

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  7. Erin says

    I love love love to bake muffins in the winter. It feels great to send my family (and myself) out into the world with something delish to start the day.

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  8. Kara says

    I would so LOVE this book! It would certainly help with my bread baking. But as now now – chocolate chip cookies are my fav!

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  13. K(Banterings of a Basketcase) says

    I got addicted to baking through cupcake doctor's book. I love her cupckaes- with homemade buttercream frosting of course. I also like to make pies and cakes. If I could do a better bread, I would make more, I need practice.

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  16. koprime says

    favorite thing to bake? brownies! unless i'm baking for a craving, then cookies. because when a craving hits, you can't wait 35-40 minutes for a treat!

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  17. Sugar Bee says

    Oh how I love to bake Cheesecake!…Plain, Raspberry, Chocolate…it doesnt matter…I love them all!tjaltes@gmail.com

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