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The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook: Sweetness in Seattle
By Tom Douglas
William Morrow Cookbooks - 2012
An excellent cookbook that includes recipes for a variety of baked goods, desserts and savoury items that are favourites at the bakery. It’s well organized and very informative and even the more labour intensive recipes aren’t overly fussy.
Relying on the ingredient weights supplied, everything I made turned out exceptionally well. I did notice something odd: there isn’t a consistent weight for 1 cup of unbleached all-purpose flour…..in just a few of the recipes I checked, there was as much as a 20g variation….all the more reason to use the weights provided rather than volume measurement.
The reason for the bakery’s popularity is clear as everything looks/tastes delicious and also has a little bit of a twist…..you’re unlikely to find a collection of recipes quite like this in other baking books.