Easiest & Best Coffee Cakes and Quick Breads

by Renny Darling

Book Overview

More than 500 outstanding cakes, breads, muffins, biscuits, and strudels to delight family and friends. The only cookbook of its kind, devoted entirely to extravagant cakes and breads that need only... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930440196
• ISBN13: 9780930440190
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Royal House Pub. Co.
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Easiest and Best Coffee Cakes and Quick Breads was a big disappointment to me.

I did not find one appealing recipe in this book , sorry I wasted my money on this one !

Practical, easy, and delicious!

I am ordering a copy of this cookbook for my sister. Why? Because I'm tire dof having to copy out recipes from it for her! I love this cookbook for the practical, easy recipes. Just because they are easy, however, doesn't mean they aren't fabulous, creative, and incredibly versatile!There is something here for everyone - from downhome cornbreads to fruited holiday treats. You need to make something quick to go with dinner? soup? Breakfast? It's in here. You have company coming on short notice? Guests for the holidays? No problem. These recipes are delicious - but you are counting calories, this is not the book for you. Renny's recipes are delicious and satisfying because she doesn't cut corners(or calories) and she gets you a rich, moist, great result every time.

Most often used cookbook in my collection!

Out of the hundreds of cookbooks that I have, this one is reached for most often. Easy to follow instructions, no fussy equipment needed and the muffin and quick bread recipes have won me rave reviews! Well worth the money!

Easiest & Best Coffee Cakes & Quick Breads by Renny Darling

This is, by far, the most treasured cookbook in my collection. I have tried nearly every recipe in the book, and they are all excellent. I bake regularly for my family and friends, and have a reputation as being a "fantastic" baker, and it's all because of Renny Darling's fabulous recipes. The instructions are clear, easy to read and follow, and the outcome is always perfect. There are wonderful recipes for banana breads, cranberry breads, pumpkin breads, as well as cakes, muffins, and scones. Renny also indicates how to change cooking time to adapt quick bread recipes to muffins, or cakes and vice versa. You will not be disappointed in this "Cake Bible."

A treasure book of luscious treats

I had never heard of Renny Darling before my husband brought this book home to me as a gift for our first wedding anniversary. That was over five years ago, and I continue to use this cookbook for sweet treats more than any other baking/dessert cookbook I own. Darling's philosophy is that baking is a labor of love, but in this book, as she says in her introduction, she has taken out the labor--these recipes really ARE easy to make, and use ingredients that are simple, not impossible to find. This cookbook has no photographs in it, but they aren't needed! Just casually perusing the book will get you inspired to start baking! Darling includes muffins, lots of quick breads and coffee cakes, and also some more sophisticated tortes which are still quite easy to prepare. If you like to bake at all, you must have this cookbook in your collection--you will not regret buying it! This is the cookbook I use to prepare all of our family's birthday cakes, and I have also obtained my "signature" banana bread recipe from it: Sour Cream Banana Bread with Chocolate Glaze. I have made it almost a dozen times, and love to give it away to friends and neighbors, who always rave about it and often request the recipe for themselves. The book includes lots of easy glazes, icings and other toppings which are so quick to prepare and make the products seem so extra-special. Among my other favorites are: Chocolate Pumpkin Pecan Cake, Fresh Apple Sour Cream Cake, Spiced Carrot and Orange Bread, and Danish Apple Strudel.

Easiest and Best is truly easiest and best!!!!!

I love baking and have hundreds of cookbooks to prove it. I have all kinds of books that are supposed to "baking bibles" with intricate instructions on how to bake perfect cakes. But since I bought this book, I have barely opened the others. The methods in this book are so simple and the results are so moist and delicious that you almost feel as if you cheated. This is a must have for bakers of all skill levels.