•     Includes close to 900 fully tested and classroom used recipes

•     Offers complete, step-by-step instruction in the art of making delicious pastries, cakes, desserts, and artisan breads

•     Covers advanced pastry work including special pastries, specialty cakes, frozen desserts, sugar work and show pieces, dessert presentation, and chocolate work

•     Enhanced companion website for students that allows for self-testing and additional baking and pastry resources

•     Its comprehensiveness is unmatched in the market and its clear and technically accurate content provide readers with the base of knowledge that they need to further their skills

•     Provides comprehensive coverage of the basics (bread making and cake mixing) and enhanced coverage of higher level techniques (pastry, chocolate, sugar work), which are becoming increasingly common in the introductory course