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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. Anna Rae says

    oh, what a great opportunity to meet such baking greatness! i think my favorite thing to back would have to be honey wheat harvest spice cinnamon rolls. It's a twist on the cinnamon rolls my mom taught me to make growing up. with autumn all around us, the cinnamon, nutmeg, and apple scent wafting around the house, and the fire crackling, you can't help but love these! thanks for this opportunity!annarpollock@me.comwww.annarpollock.co.uk

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  4. Amanda says

    Ohhhh me! I love love love baking books, can't get enough! My favorite thing to bake… umm, everything?? Cakes probably are my fave, followed by bread!And how fun you got to have lunch with him!

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  9. Kate says

    I love to bake pumpkin creme brulee! It is my favorite part about the holidays! I try to make it at least twice during the fall months! I think I'll make my first batch this weekend!!!!

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  11. Shannon C says

    I love to bake cupcakes and quickbreads. I would love to win this book because my almost 7 year old son has big dreams of becoming a pastry chef someday and loves to peruse cookbooks. Anything that will help him follow his passion!Shannon C

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  12. The District Chocoholic says

    Alright, I actually have a signed copy of the cookbook because I attended one of Nick's demos, but would love a copy to give to my grandmother now that I see how incredible this book is. The step-by-step instructions, along with the "why" and "how come" explanations are unmatched in any other baking book.While my current favorite thing to bake is an inventive batch of cookies, Nick's book has inspired me to believe I can make solid pies as well. I would love to share this with my grandmother, who also likes baking. Email: vkanders at alum dot mit dot edu

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  13. Jill and Davis King says

    I have just started baking with some success. Right now, I love baking pumpkin cupcakes with maple cream cheese icing!

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  16. Rona says

    I just got here from a link from David Lebovitz from facebook. What a wonderful site you have! I love to bake cookies and recently I have been baking a lot of angel food cake for a preschool bake sale. (Using egg whites from making lots of ice cream.) The BAKE! cookbook looks awesome! Thank you for the opportunity!

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  18. briskmamma says

    I am not US resident so I will just comment. I love baking, and when having enough free time I love to make my own bread. But the favourite pastry to make (and eat) is chocolate tart. I will be your follower because this blog is awesome and I would love to read more: https://www.briskmamma.blogspot.com/

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