The Best Cake Cookbooks · Beautiful Cookbooks

Baking Yesteryear insists that chocolate sauerkraut cake, potato chip cookies, and avocado pie belong on your counter, and B. Dylan Hollis has spent hundreds of test batches proving it.

Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s cover

Baking confidence tastes better than any dessert ever could, which is exactly what Claire Saffitz delivers in Dessert Person.

Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence: A Baking Book cover

Let Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh's Sweet introduce you to the pastry chef who started it all, with 110+ recipes built on cardamom, rose, pistachio, and the kind of flavor courage that makes a simple cookie sing.

Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi [A Baking Book] cover

BAKE makes a case that your oven's been waiting for a baker this confident, and Paul Hollywood has the recipes to prove it.

BAKE: My Best Ever Recipes for the Classics cover

Let Zoë François walk you through 85 cakes in Zoë Bakes Cakes, turning Tuesday nights into actual celebrations.

Zoë Bakes Cakes: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Favorite Layers, Bundts, Loaves, and More [A Baking Book] cover

Snacking Cakes makes the case that one bowl, your pantry staples, and Yossy Arefi's 50 recipes are all you need to bake your way through every day.

Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime Cravings: A Baking Book cover

David Lebovitz's My Paris Kitchen shows how Paris rewrites its own rulebook, and modern Parisian cooks follow eagerly along.

My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories [A Cookbook] cover

Delish Insane Sweets from the Editors of Delish and Joanna Saltz is 100 recipes that prove dessert doesn't need to be serious to be spectacular.

Delish Insane Sweets: Over-the-Top Dessert Recipes from the Delish Editors, from Classic Cookies to Wild Skillet Treats cover

Nearly 150 recipes so good people will assume you've been baking professionally, which is exactly what Bobbie Lloyd delivers in The Magnolia Bakery Handbook.

The Magnolia Bakery Handbook: A Complete Guide for the Home Baker ― A Beautifully Photographed Dessert Cookbook cover

Baking Across America by B. Dylan Hollis is 100 vintage American desserts that taste like road trips and Saturday mornings, from Boston's cobbled streets to Texas sheet cake glory.

Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip cover

Mooncakes and Milk Bread by Kristina Cho teaches you to pull steamed buns, butter pineapple cakes, and dumplings that taste like a Beijing morning straight from your own oven.

Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries (A James Beard Award-Winning Cookbook. The Perfect Gift for Bakers, Baking Fans, and Foodies) cover

Start with brownies and end up confidently piping cream cheese puff pastry—that's the arc Sally McKenney maps out in Sally's Baking 101, her collection of 101 foolproof recipes that grows your skills one bake at a time.

Sally's Baking 101: Foolproof Recipes from Easy to Advanced cover

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