High Altitude Baking: 200 Delicious Recipes & Tips for Perfect High Altitude Cookies, Cakes, Breads & More

by Colorado State University Cooperative Extension

Book Overview

Put an end to your high altitude frustrations today! With over two hundred recipes and proven tips developed by high altitude baking experts, this book will ensure your baking success. A cake recipe... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188959315X
• ISBN13: 9781889593159
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Bower House
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

High Altitude Baking

I live in Mexico at 6,500 feet and needed clear guidance on how to bake successfully. The information in this book offers clear cut suggestions and simplifies some of the mysteries. Very useful, basic, not fancy, a good first start!

A Fantastic Resource

I live over 8,000 feet and had basically given up on baking certain things, like bread. The recipes in this book are great! My bread actually came out the size of a normal loaf, and my biscuits popped up like they are supposed to. My boys said, "You mean biscuits aren't supposed to look like lumps of dough?" The recipes are also healthy--lots of them have whole wheat options, or ways to cut back on sugar. Many are also fruit or vegetable-based. I've made so many of the recipes in the book, and only a very few have not been delicious.

Favorite baking book

I've had this book now for about 3 years, and haven't made a recipe that did not come out. Pancakes, breads, cupcakes, everything I've used in this book has come out great. I say this is my favorite high altitude baking book, but it's actually the only one I have. I've found I don't need another. This is a great starting point for high altitude baking, and I've been able to use the ideas here to adjust other recipes I loved when living at (much) lower altitudes. We currently live at slightly over 7000 ft.

Finally a normal looking cookie!

I live in the S.CA mountains at 6000 ft, and since moving here I have been at a loss in terms of turning out a decent oatmeal cookie. I have made several attempts, with different recipes, but to no avail. The end result was, sadly, always the same: a flat disc. I had almost given up on my cookie baking when I found this book. I just finished baking up the oatmeal cookie recipe, and they turned out perfectly...just like what I remember from my old days in Orange County. There didn't seem to be enough of the ingredients including sugar and flour when I was making the recipe, but what do I know, the recipe turned out a beautifully plump batch of cookies. I am going to try a cake next and report back. What a thrill to successfully bake again...

Finally, help for baking at high altitude

I love this book - it has adjustments for unadjusted receipes and over 200 recipes for 3,500 to 10,000 feet. You have to try the mocha chip cookies - yum!