50 things to bake before you die : the world's best cakes, pies, brownies, cookies, and more from your favorite bakers, including Christina Tosi, Joanne Chang, and Dominique Ansel / by Allyson Reedy ; select photography by Greg McBoat.

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This heavenly collection of dessert recipes is a call to arms, to action, to revolution! Or, at the very least, a call to turn on the oven. Because who has time for the third-best brownie recipe or so-so Nutella-stuffed chocolate chip cookies? Written with a fun and friendly tone and featuring easy, step-by-step instructions, 50 Things To Bake Before You Die will make you feel right at home as you bake up these world-class desserts. So bake up Courtney Rich's sublime Ultimate S'mores Cake, and Joanne Chang's soul-shaking Homemade Oreos. Bake them - before you die.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 6)
• Chapter 1 Cookies (p. 9)
• Homemade Oreos
• Joanne Chang, Flour Bakery (p. 10)
• Plain Jane Cookies
• Amy Jason, Cookie Fix (p. 12)
• Brown Butter Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Chelsey White, Chelsweets (p. 14)
• Madeleines
• Daniel Boulud, chef and restaurateur (p. 16)
• Italian Sandwich Cookies
• Allison Robicelli, food writer and cookbook author (p. 21)
• Oatmeal Chocolate Toffee Shortbread Cookies
• Clyde Greenhouse, Kessler Baking Studio (p. 22)
• Funfetti Cookies
• Kate Wood, Wood & Spoon (p. 25)
• Mackles' Mores
• Robin Wehl Martin, Hello Robin Cookies (p. 28)
• Cookies and Cream Macarons
• Cambrea Gordon, Cambrea Bakes (p. 30)
• Chocolate Pecan Caramel Cookies
• Courtney Cowan, Milk Jar Cookies (p. 33)
• Salted Peanut Butter Cookies
• Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin, Ovenly (p. 34)
• Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Camila Arango and Tom Wellings, Pluma by Bluebird Bakery (p. 37)
• Chapter 2 Cakes (p. 39)
• Birthday Layer Cake
• Christina Tosi, Milk Bar Bakery (p. 40)
• Ultimate S'Mores Cake
• Courtney Rich, Cake by Courtney (p. 43)
• Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes
• Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne and Katherine Kallinis Berman, Georgetown Cupcake (p. 48)
• Red Velvet Layer Cake
• Tanya Holland, Brown Sugar Kitchen (p. 53)
• Death by Chocolate Cake
• Liz Marek, Sugar Geek Show (p. 54)
• Lemon Layer Cake with Lemon Curd and Sugared Blueberries
• Sugar Bakeshop (p. 56)
• Yum Yum Banana Coffee Cake with Cheesecake Filling and Chocolate Streusel
• Mindy Segal, Mindy's Bakery (p. 62)
• Daydream Believer Cupcakes
• Kat Gordon, Muddy's Bake Shop (p. 65)
• Pound Cake
• Stephanie Hart, Brown Sugar Bakery (p. 66)
• Chocolate Pound Cake with Caramel Icing
• Jocelyn Delk Adams, Grandbaby Cakes (p. 68)
• Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
• Astrid Field, The Sweet Rebellion (p. 71)
• Olive Oil Cake
• Angela Renee Chase, Flora Bodega & Paseo Farmers Market (p. 72)
• Chapter 3 Pies & Tarts (p. 75)
• Strawberry Hand Pies
• Tracy Wilk, #BakeltForward (p. 76)
• Classic Apple Pie
• The Upper Crust Pie Bakery (p. 79)
• Passion Fruit Pie with Macadamia Lace Brittle
• Darcy Schein and Leslie Coale-Mossman, Pie Junkie (p. 80)
• Blueberry Lemon Pie (The Boy Scout)
• Shauna Lott Harman, The Long I Pie Shop (p. 83)
• Strawberry Labneh Granola Tart
• Majed Ali, The Cinnaman (p. 84)
• Chocolate Caramel Tart
• Erica Leahy, Three Daughters Baking (p. 88)
• Peanut Butter Pie
• Kelli Marks, Sweet Love Bakes (p. 91)
• Blueberry Galette
• Jennifer Essex, Ruby Jean Patisserie (p. 92)
• Chapter 4 Things You Eat with Your Hands (p. 97)
• Chewy Brownies
• Tessa Arias, Handle the Heat (p. 99)
• Chocolate Babka
• Duff Goldman, Charm City Cakes (p. 100)
• Croissants
• Dominique Ansel, Dominique Ansel Bakery (p. 102)
• Lemon Bars
• Ashley Summers, Berkshire Bakes (p. 107)
• Blondie Ate a Brownie
• Sherry Blockinger, Sherry B Dessert Studio (p. 110)
• Pistachio Cheesecake Bars
• Katina Talley, Sweet Magnolias Bake Shop (p. 113)
• Chocolate Cheesecake Mochi Muffins
• Sam Butarbutar, Third Culture Bakery (p. 114)
• Salted Caramel Brownies
• Kimberlee Ho, Kickass Baker (p. 117)
• Peach Cobbler Scones
• Rebecca Rather, Emma + Ollie (p. 118)
• Biscoff White Chocolate Blondies
• Anna Wierzbinska, Anna Banana (p. 121)
• Chapter 5 Things You Probably Shouldn't Eat with Your Hands (p. 125)
• Brown Sugar Peach Cobbler
• Tieghan Gerard, Half Baked Harvest (p. 126)
• Rhubarb Cheesecake
• Erin Jeanne McDowell, The Fearless Baker (p. 129)
• Creamy Coconut Cheesecake with Dulce De Leche
• Dev Amadeo, The Yellow Butterfly (p. 130)
• Butter Pecan Cinnamon Buns
• Ashley Manila, Baker by Nature (p. 132)
• Grapefruit Tiramisu
• Anne Ng and Jeremy Mandrell, Bakery Lorraine (p. 134)
• Classic Crème Brûlée
• Jeff Osaka, chef/restaurateur (p. 137)
• Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding with Fresh Chantilly Cream
• Wiltshire Pantry Bakery & Café (p. 139)
• Chocolate Soufflés with Chocolate Sauce
• Hedda Gioia Dowd and Cherif Brahmi, rise n°1 restaurant (p. 140)
• Recommended Reading (p. 142)
• Acknowledgments (p. 143)
• About the Author (p. 144)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Publishers Weekly Review

Food writer Reedy (Breaking the Chain) serves up the "very best desserts the sweet, sweet confectionary world has to offer" in this toothsome assemblage of recipes from notable bakers, bloggers, and chefs. "I know what you're thinking," Reedy writes of the book's vaguely morbid title, "Can't we just have our cake without being confronted with our ever-hastening mortality, too?" Rest assured, the following pages are anything but macabre, thanks to their sugary contents, cheeky charm, and commitment to covering all of the "dessert-y bases" in chapters organized by cookies, cakes, "Things You Should Eat with Your Hands," and "Things You Probably Shouldn't Eat with Your Hands." Nostalgia gets served in the form of "snuggly" oatmeal-sugar cookies courtesy of Amy Jason, owner of Alabama's Cookie Fix, while madeleines are made "just as God... intended" in a perfected recipe from Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud. For bakers seeking a rewarding challenge, the layered Ultimate S'mores Cake from baking blogger Courtney Rich offers "an intimibake" that's worth the elbow grease. Meanwhile, an indulgent chocolate croissant bread pudding from a bakery in Kentucky gets topped with Chantilly cream for some "awesome fat-on-fat action," and variations on bars, brownies, and babkas shine, notably in recipe for graham-cracker-crusted pistachio cheesecake bars. It doesn't get sweeter than this. (Apr.)