By Rebecca Rather, Alison Oresman, Laurie Smith
EPUB eISBN: 9781607742401
Original book: 2007
Electronic ebook: 2011
Book by means of: Rebecca quite, Alison Oresman
Photography by way of: Laurie Smith
It's Christmastime on the top Little Bakery in Texas
The annual Fredericksburg Christmas parade marks the start of the Texas Hill Country's vacation season, this means that the Pastry Queen is kicking into excessive apparatus at her relatively candy Bakery and Café. As celebration invites pile up within the mailbox, Rebecca fairly is as much as her elbows in sticky meringue, creamy chocolate, and a sleigh choked with savory treats to fulfill the exciting wishes of her neighbors.
In The Pastry Queen Christmas, Rebecca stocks approximately a hundred conventional recipes reflecting her made-with-love-from-scratch philosophy and the tastes of small-town Texas. Show-off cakes similar to Chocolate Cookie Crusted Eggnog Cheesecake, Sticky Toffee Pudding with Brandy Butterscotch Sauce, and hot Pear Ginger Upside-Down Cake with Amaretto Whipped Cream are the fitting toppers to a family-style dinner party of Texas Spice-Rubbed Roast beef, Baked Apple Pear Chutney, Brown Sugar Bacon, and No-Peeking Popovers. nonetheless hungry the subsequent morning? No problem-this state lady does a magnificent breakfast, too: Bite-Sized Sticky Buns, candy Potato Scones, cast iron Skillet Potatoes, and Mexican Ranch Chilaquiles should fill you up.
And if you're nonetheless trying to find excuses to entertain this season, you'll locate ooey-gooey baked items wrapped up as presents, do-it-yourself craft and décor rules to make your place sparkle, and holiday-worthy menus absolute to make your amassing a Texas-sized luck. Tree-trimming, cookie adorning, and Santas operating down major highway . . . Christmastime is here.
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author-
A pastry chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer, local Texan REBECCA quite has been owner of the really candy Bakery and Café considering 1999. Open for breakfast and lunch day-by-day, relatively candy has a fiercely dependable cadre of regulars who populate the café's sunlit tables every day. In 2007, Rebecca opened her eponymous eating place, serving dinner nightly, quite a few blocks from the café. Rebecca is the writer of The Pastry Queen, and has been featured in Texas per 30 days, connoisseur, Ladies' domestic magazine, meals & Wine, Southern residing, Chocolatier, Saveur, and O, The Oprah journal. whilst she isn't within the bakery or on horseback, Rebecca enjoys the candy existence in Fredericksburg, the place she has a tendency to her loved yard backyard and menagerie, and eagerly awaits visits from her college-age daughter, Frances.
ALISON ORESMAN has labored as a journalist for greater than two decades. She has written and edited for newspapers in Wyoming, Florida, and Washington nation. As an leisure editor for the Miami usher in, she oversaw the paper's eating place insurance and wrote a weekly column as a cafe critic. After settling in Washington country, she additionally lined eating places within the larger Seattle zone as a critic with a weekly column. A committed domestic baker, Alison is frequently within the kitchen whilst she isn't writing. The Pastry Queen Christmas is her moment booklet with Rebecca particularly. Alison lives in Bellevue, Washington, along with her husband, Warren, and their teenagers, Danny and Callie.
