REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY – Quick Shop & Prep 5 Ingredient Baking Cookbook

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Quick Shop & Prep 5 Ingredient Baking Cookbook

• Author: Jennifer McHenry
• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Page Street Publishing (October 13, 2015)
• ISBN-10: 1624141544
• ISBN-13: 978-1624141546
• Cover price $19.99

There’s no denying that freshly baked homemade treats are the best, but these days it can be hard to find new recipes that don’t take all day to make and don’t have long lists of specialty ingredients. Who has the time or money? Quick-Shop-&-Prep 5 Ingredient Baking has the answer with 80 incredible new and easy desserts. With only a 5-minute shopping trip and a few simple steps, you’ll have a warm, delicious homemade goody to share with family and friends.

Just imagine the smell of Maple Nut Coffee Cake or the first salty sweet bite of Salted Butterscotch Cheesecake Bars. Then there’s the “mmmm” that comes after a forkful of warm Weeknight Fudgy Brownie Cake. And think of the pride you’ll feel when your friends gush over your fresh Vanilla Bean Cake with Blueberry Whipped Cream. All of these with only 5 ingredients or fewer? It’s true! Each incredible recipe needs only 2, 3, 4 or 5 simple ingredients beyond the basic baker’s pantry, saving you time and money at the grocery store.

Bakers with years of experience will be surprised to see how delicious these simple treats are; and inexperienced bakers will be pleased to learn that these desserts are even better than a boxed mix, but not any harder to make from scratch. With Quick-Shop-&-Prep 5 Ingredient Baking, you’ll bake something delicious and full of love for your family, your friends, a special occasion or just because you can.

I am not afraid to toss all sorts of things together with meat, rice, pasta, etc. But when it comes to baking, I never learned to bake from scratch so it’s the area of cooking that is the farthest from my comfort zone.

The premise of this cookbook is pretty simple. Just add a couple of items to some staples you already have in your pantry and you’ll be able to make some yummy baked treats.

Chapters in this book include:

• +2 Ingredients
• +3 Ingredients
• +4 Ingredients
• +5 Ingredients

The cookbook is easy to use. The introduction explains which things you’ll need to stock up in your pantry. These are the staples I mentioned. Then, you add either 2, 3, 4 or 5 other ingredients to some of the staples and you’re ready to bake. The recipes themselves are all easy to follow. Each one includes a lovely color photo. I appreciate that all of the ingredients were items I’m familiar with, as well as items that are readily available in your nearby grocery store. Cooking time is included as part of the recipe, so you have to read through to figure out how long the recipe will take to make. That’s the only thing I’d personally like to see changed, since I often skin through a cookbook and use a combination of the pictures along with prep and cooking time to determine what I have time to try making. There are a lot of recipes in this cookbook that I’m looking forward to trying. And, the cookbook has shown me that baking from scratch does not require tons of ingredients. This cookbook would be approrpiate for anyone interested in baking, no matter if they are experienced or not.

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