Bake With Brooki

I ordered this book back in October. It arrived yesterday on February 11th. 4 months I waited. My excitement was gone by that time. The book arrived with blemishes on front and back as well as the pages. Looks like ink by careless people who didn’t let ink dry and touched the book while ink was wet. And left it. Unacceptable. The pages are warped and cover doesn’t shut properly as it is also warped. But who knows how long it sat in a warehouse for moisture to creep in over the past 4 months. Aside from these issues and book looking used and abused, there are positives with it. These issues are clearly not Brooke’s fault. And she probably had no control of the careless handling and smeared ink from other people. The book itself is absolutely gorgeous. I love the embossing on the front. And this book is heavy and BIG. I never expected it to be this think and beautiful. The pages are stunning, beautiful colors and wonderful recipes. Brooke did a great job putting this together. It really is a lovely and a beautiful book she created. It’s very heavy, chock full of amazing pages and recipes. The cover and pages are so soft, the texture is amazing. I really do love this book despite the flaws from careless printer and packaging employees who clearly saw these flaws and sent it out anyway. I recommend people to buy it and you won’t be disappointed. And hopefully you will get a copy that is in better shape than mine. I give this book an A+.

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Best Cookbook I have gotten. 10/10

I am truly grateful for this book and the author; it has great recipes.

Like everyone else in the US, I waited a long time to get this book! I pre-ordered last July, and with book delays, it didn't arrive until February. In the meantime, I purchased Brooke's downloadable "Chunky Cookie Masterclass" from her website, which has 3 of her chunky cookie recipes in a PDF, along with a full page of tips for baking cookies like her bakery. There's some major discrepancies between the PDF and the cookbook - the most notable is that the cookie recipes in the book all call for one egg, whereas the Masterclass recipes call for 2 (all other ingredient weights are exactly the same). I made a cookie dough with one egg and the finished dough was incredibly dry and crumbly, it wouldn't even stick together when pressed. I added in the second egg and it came together like a cookie dough should be. I don't know why the second egg was removed from the recipes in the book because it doesn't work! The second major issue is with the dough structure - to get the dense, chunky cookies, you cannot overbeat the sugar and butter. In the Masterclass video and in the PDF, Brooke reiterates that you're mixing until "just combined," even going so far as to add the eggs and flour to the mixture at the same time to avoid overbeating. In the cookbook, it says to let the butter and sugars beat for 3-5 minutes. This incorporates a significant amount of air into the dough, which results in air pockets in the baked cookies, causing cookie collapse. Considering the chunky cookies are the best seller at the bakery and likely what most bakers bought the book for, I am confused as to why these were not more thoroughly tested and written. I also tried the macaron recipe and it was a flop (I have made dozens of macs before with success, I'm not a total beginner on these). Most macaron recipes call for 100g of egg whites for 100g - 135g almond flour and 100g of powdered sugar. Brooke's recipe calls for 100g powdered sugar, 100g almond meal, and only 72g of egg whites, which is then divided in half. Only 36g of egg whites go into the mixer to be combined with the sugar syrup, and the other 36g of egg whites is mixed into the almond/sugar to create a paste. I have a standard KitchenAid, and 36g of egg white was such a small amount, it wouldn't even engage the whisk. The hot sugar syrup just splashes against the sides of the bowl, and the meringue never whipped. She has one short page for troubleshooting macarons, but anyone who has made them before knows you need a lot of advice to ensure success as they are super finicky - look elsewhere for a macaron recipe. I also made the Biscoff Blondies twice, the GF chocolate brownies, and the raspberry brownies - everybody loved them! The recipe instructions are missing some finesse for clarity. For example, it says to "pour and swirl" Biscoff on top the blondies, but Biscoff is not pourable unless you heat it, and the blondie batter is so thick you cannot swirl it in, it's more like digging it up with a spoon and poking the spread down into it. I was also surprised there wasn't much in the way of her famous heart cakes! There's one photo of a vanilla cake in a heart-shaped pan, and all the other cakes are round. No "vintage icing" tutorial, just a basic one-page visual for icing a round cake. I loved the travel sections and the photography is beautiful, but for the amount of time I waited to get this book, I really expected it to be more comprehensive and thought out. She also promised in her online videos that "Every single recipe we have in the bakery!" would be included in the book and that's not the case - there's quite a few, like the pistachio cookie, that are not in the book. There are some winners in this book but I wish the team behind the scenes had edited and tested more carefully. I don't want cookbooks to just be pretty, the recipes need to work.

Really love this book

What a joke! This cookbook is full of measurement errors and inaccurate baking temperature conversions. I contacted the author and they said they were aware of the mistakes and that they were editing mistakes that were not caught. They advised me to contact the publisher. I contacted the publisher in early September and they told me to use a conversion chart! I insisted that if they reprint the book, I wanted a reprinted copy.. to which they replied they would send me a corrected version of the book. I was told it was on the way and would arrive by mid-november. It is now almost mid-December and nothing! This was a very disappointing purchase that both the author and publisher are not standing behind. It is a worthless cookbook.

Absolutely love!!!!! I have been following her for such a long time and to finally get some of her recipes is amazing! The first time i ordered it, it was never shipped. After canceling and ordering again, it finally delivered.

Den var bra

The content of the book is great! However, had a bad delivery experience. Was so looking forward to this book and finally when it arrived, it was in a bad condition! Paid extravagantly for a book that I really had wanted from a long time and finally it came like this! They didn't even bubble wrap the book. It was simply put inside a thin courier cover and sent the same. Pathetic delivery experience!

C'est un tres bon livre pour des gens qui aiment la pâtisserie

Wow, amazing recipes and they all taste great. High quality materials, makes me feel like a proper baker.

Great book with easy-to-follow instructions.