The Best Pastry Cookbooks

Forget everything you think you know about pie dough―Erin Jeanne McDowell's The Book on Pie teaches you how to master flaky crusts, stunning decorations, and hundreds of recipes that prove pie is endlessly customizable.

Betül Tunç walks you through Turkuaz Kitchen, 85 doughs both traditional and invented, each one tasting like her snowy childhood in Erzurum and the home kitchen she's building now.

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

Sarah Fennel's Sweet Tooth collects 100 recipes—from fluffy layer cakes to crispy-edged cookies—that prove a deep love for dessert is all the qualification you need to bake like you mean it.

Dorie Greenspan's Baking With Dorie pairs 150+ recipes—from browned butter apple pie to footlong cheese sticks—with the kind of clear instructions that make every technique feel effortless.

Magnus Nilsson's The Nordic Cookbook gathers 700 authentic recipes collected across Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—a comprehensive guide to gravlax and rose-hip soup, woodsmoke and preserved things, all photographed beautifully by the chef himself.

The Turkish Cookbook by Musa Dagdeviren and Toby Glanville brings 550 recipes home—each one tasting like Turkey's whole magnificent story, from regional treasures to the global classics that never age.

Mamushka invites you on a culinary tour through Ukraine and Eastern Europe with over 100 recipes—from broths and breads to garlicky poussins and sour cherry pie—all told through Olia Hercules's deeply personal stories and family traditions.

James Campbell's Japanese Patisserie pairs French precision with yuzu, matcha, and miso—60 recipes that prove East and West belong in the same kitchen.