The One-Bowl Baker: Easy, Unfussy Recipes for Decadent Cakes, Brownies, Cookies and Breads

261 Pages·2022·6.971 MB·English

by  Stephanie Simmons

The One-Bowl BAKER
Easy,
UNFUSSY RECIPES
for Decadent Cakes, Brownies, Cookies and Breads
STEPHANIE SIMMONS
founder of Blue Bowl Recipes
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Dedication
To Grant, my biggest supporter, encourager and most-trusted
taste tester
INTRODUCTION
I’m a �rm believer that the recipes in this book are things that
anyone can make—this isn’t your �nicky French patisserie type of
baking. I don’t have the patience for that. (If you do, kudos!)
On my blog, Blue Bowl Recipes, I try to focus on classic baking
recipes while giving many of them my own approachable spin or a
modern twist—and I’ve taken the same approach in this cookbook.
Instead of classic peanut butter cookies, we’re making Peanut Butter
and Jelly Thumbprint Cookies. A classic yellow cake with chocolate
frosting gets an upgrade from malt powder to turn it into a Malted
Vanilla Birthday Cake with Chocolate Frosting. Traditional wedding-
cake �avored cupcakes are transformed into something new and
exciting—Raspberry Almond Cupcakes—by adding raspberry
preserves to the center of the cupcakes and to the frosting.
You get the picture. These are recipes that don’t require any wild or
complicated techniques, and of course, they’re all made in one bowl.
I’ve done a little �nagling here and there to keep the number of
dishes down—using an already dirtied measuring cup for your egg
wash or mixing wet ingredients together in a glass measuring cup
instead of a separate bowl. No matter how simple a recipe, we still
don’t want to be left with a mountain of dishes in the sink at the
end of it.
Some of these recipes do have a special �nishing touch that might
require a quick rinse of your batter bowl to make—like frosting on a
cake or chocolate ganache on a tart. With these simple, beginner-
friendly recipes, there’s no need to be too fussy.
Even though I’ve added little shortcuts to these recipes and cut back
on steps wherever I could, these are all recipes you can absolutely
take to any event—potlucks, picnics, work gatherings, holiday
parties—and get asked, “How did you make this? It’s SO good! Can I
have the recipe?”
And that’s my goal: giving you recipes that you can bake no matter
your level of baking experience, won’t take you ages to make, won’t
leave you with a mountain of dirty bowls and will still trick people
into thinking you’re another Martha.
Make sure you take a moment to read my tips and tricks in the
Baking Basics section. This will familiarize you with everything you
need to know about my recipes and ensure the best baking success
—especially if you consider yourself a novice in the kitchen.
I hope that this book has your new favorite thing to bake, and I
hope that you share what you make with the people you love.