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title: "Happiness Is Baking: Cakes, Pies, Tarts, Muffins, Brownies, Cookies: Favorite Desserts from the Queen of Cake Hardcover – Illustrated, April 16, 2019"
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# Happiness Is Baking: Cakes, Pies, Tarts, Muffins, Brownies, Cookies: Favorite Desserts from the Queen of Cake Hardcover – Illustrated, April 16, 2019

**Brand:** maida heatterdorie greenspan
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- **What is this?** Happiness Is Baking: Cakes, Pies, Tarts, Muffins, Brownies, Cookies: Favorite Desserts from the Queen of Cake Hardcover – Illustrated, April 16, 2019 by maida heatterdorie greenspan
- **How much does it cost?** R814 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Maids heatter
*by K***E on June 23, 2025*

Mandarin heatter enough said 2 times james beard winner

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Compilation of Maida Heatter's Recipes and cute illustrations
*by E***. on April 17, 2019*

So I was so excited about this book coming out from the famous Maida Haetter, a very well-known cookbook author of desserts, cookies, cakes and anything sweet. This book is a compilation of the famous and popular recipes coming from many people who thought that her recipes really work, unless you enjoy reading her books as a guide to help you through successful baking.Maida Haetter is one of those cookbook authors that gives great emphasis and technical knowledge why she uses a particular technique to make these treats a success. A recipe requires precision, updated modern techniques that still works in her recipes, have all ingredients in an organized order and read the recipe all throughout until you reach the end. Then you are ready to bake. What I really enjoy about Maida is her high attention to detail, a unique technique and the final result are so delicious. Furthermore, this book list most of the popular recipes that people often requests or bakers that have baked it and the results gives astonishing results because it creates food memories of many people who have her recipes. From reading this cookbook, she probably got it from her mother's talents of cooking. Although she went to Pratt Institute and graduated with a major in fashion design and illustration. Her recipes have been followed by numerous chefs, home cooks all over because of her technical knowledge, wisdom, and some notes that will be part of our baking repetoire when we liked the recipe.But anyway, I have tried several recipes already from her past books like the Big Sur Choco Chip Cookies, Neiman Marcus Choco Chip Cookies, Buttermilk Spice Cake, Chocolate Intrigue (this is one chocolate cake you have to try- so delicious especially when you make a dark chocolate sauce and served with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream). On this book, I am going to try her last chapter - Pies, Tarts, Brownies, Bars and More.Also I like how she writes and talks how she does it in a specific way. Sometimes her stories are so funny which is true. You're almost listening while she is baking with you while reading the book. That's how I felt while reading the book, yet I enjoyed it! Can you also believe that she is 101 years old? She is still alive and kicking.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Very Best from the Queen of Cake - and PIe - and Cookies - and Dessert!
*by G***A on May 3, 2019*

It seems like Maida Heatter has been a part of my baking life for most of my life. I'm lucky enough to still own several of her delightful baking books, some long out of print, that are old and dear friends. No worries, though. Maida, now 102, has put together a brand new collection of her most treasured, tried and tested recipes in Happiness is Baking and I'm delighted to own a copy!Many of these recipes are old friends. Key Lime Pie, the very pie that Maida once baked for presidents, is a treasure I have produced hundreds of times. Her brownies are legendary (try the Cream Cheese Brownies!) and the Fudge Cake With Fudge recipe you'll find on page 77 is the original Wellesley Fudge Cake, a cake I often made when my eldest was small. This very rich, very chocolate cake is luscious. My young husband, a chocolate lover, would take every opportunity to sit down with that cake, a fork and a gallon of milk straight from the farm to polish off the lot. (I could wish for that metabolism.) And right this very minute I've a batch of Florida Lemon Squares in the oven. (My kitchen always has lemons and oatmeal and brown sugar.) If you like lemon meringue pie, you will go mad for Florida Lemon Squares.Whether you are an experienced baker or looking for a gift for a 10 year old who wants to learn to bake, I couldn't recommend Happiness is Baking more highly. With 276 pages of Maida Heatter's very best recipes this is a book you will treasure for years. The book features a retro cover, hand painted illustrations and print big enough to read even without reading glasses.Grandma's $0.02 - 1000 Thumbs Up! The "must have" of the year!

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