I love baked goods. Love them. From cupcakes to cookies to breads. But I've got to have the best. No shrinkwrapped snack cakes for me. I hope that this lens provides some useful information for others recognizing that it is only the frosting on the cake.
My Favorite Bakeries
- The Magnolia Bakery
- You can kill for their coconut cake - and the cupcakes are to die for
- Levain Bakery
- The best oatmeal raisin cookie ever and the chocolate chocolate chip ain't bd either
- Breadzilla
- In the Hamptons
Recipes Online
Web sites for the stove savvy
Want to try something new? Look online for ideas
- Epicurious
- "The world's greatest recipe collection"
- The Food Network
- Cooking, recipe collections, entertaining, wine and drinks videos
- Put in ingredients and the word recipe and you are on your way
Where to Get Ingredients
For those hard-to-find items
If your local food stores don't have what you need, these online retailers will
- Salt Traders
- Purveyors of fine salt
- Tienda
- Authentic Spanish food from Spain
- Far Away Foods
- Specialty foods online
- Chocosphere
- Featuring 35 world-class chocolatiers
Cookbooks for Bakers
Baked goods, great recipes
For the aspiring -- and inspired -- baker, these cookbooks have the ingredients you need
The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook: Old-Fashioned Recipes From New York's Sweetest Bakery
Old-Fashioned Recipes From New York's Sweetest Bakery
Amazon Price: $16.50 (as of 12/02/2008) 
The Cake Bible
Rose Levy Beranbaum's tome weighs a full three pounds!
Amazon Price: $23.10 (as of 12/02/2008)
Cobblers, Crisps, and Deep-Dish Pies (American Baking Classics)
From the American Baking Classics series
Amazon Price: (as of 12/02/2008)
Tools for Cooks
Goods and gear for your kitchen counter
All the tools you can use
- Broadway Panhandler
- A cook's best resource
- Williams-Sonoma
- The place for cooks
- The Baker's Catalogue
- Inspiration for bakers
- The Chef's Warehouse
- Home of the finest gourmet foods and gourmet food ingredients
Magazines for Gourmands
Periodically reading
These monthly publications will give you a food fix -- even between meals
- Gourmet
- Via Epicurious, the magazine of fine food
- Bon Appetit
- Gourmet's companion read
- Cooking Light
- For lighter diets
Movies for Foodies
Films to digest to
From the kitchen counter to the TV screen
Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series)
Consider a double feature!
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 12/02/2008)
