The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook: Old-Fashioned Recipes From New York's Sweetest Bakery

I ordered this cookbook because the Magnolia Bakery's Banana Pudding was featured on one of the tv morning shows. There were several books but this one was the first one published. Unfortunately, it didn't include the famous banana pudding. No problem- I looked it up online and tucked it inside the front cover. All the recipes look great, especially if you love to bake. I tried the lemon bars yesterday & the crust and lemon topping were thick enough and very lemony (as they should be).

It was a gift

I cannot recommend this cookbook enough! I bake every week, and every cookie recipe I have tried in this cookbook has been a five star home run! I gave this copy as a Christmas present last year. It would also make a wonderful bridal shower gift. If you like to bake, you will LOVE this cookbook! So glad I found it!

I bought this cookbook, because of a red velvet cupcake, purchased at The Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village. I devoured the eBook, from cover to cover in several settings. I have was eager to try one of these beautifully written recipes, in hopes of recapturing the sense memory of eating that red velvet cupcake. I finally got up the courage to make one of the recipes, the Coconut Layer Cake for Father's Day. This book offers some fantastic tips in the beginning to set you up for success, when trying on these recipes. I read the recipe several times, and began the process. The end result was a fantastic layer cake, that received rave reviews from the crowd. My parents compared it to the cakes of their childhood. My seven year old nephew, who never finishes a piece of cake, ate his piece from top to bottom. I would recommend this cookbook to anyone, who is up for a baking challenge, with a fantastic end result. I will most likely, purchase the two others in the collection. Up next from this book, the Humming Bird Cake...

I bought this book after my sister made a birthday cake using the recipe for Traditional Birthday cake. After one bite I was hooked and demanded the recipe. After making this one a few times, I went ahead and bought the book. I usually make cupcakes, though, and the cake is sweet all on its own -- like a sugar cookie but with a cake texture. We just tried the "Dump Cake" -- an inelegant but super easy desert. My kids made it with minimal supervision (8 years, 6 years, and 4-year-old twins.) We served it warm out of the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, like a cobbler. Today we're baking cookies!

Has so many easy to make recipes for cakes. I didn't want to miss out on any of the recipes soI bought Recipes from the World-Famous Bakery and Allysa Torey's Home Kitchen as well. Only disappointment is that book has all the recipes from this book and many more. I wish it was stated in the introduction. But I don't regret getting this. This is user friendly with hard cover and wish it has pictures!

I went to the magnolia bakery on a trip to NYC and could not help fall in love with it! So when I realized that there were books with recipes from this bakery, I bought all the books, I even preordered one of them. However I now realized that all 3 books are THE SAME maybe 1 or 2 different recipes, even the insert photos are the same!!! Its really dissapointing to know they did this! If you want buy one of them but not the 3 like I did! Now I'm stuck with these books! :( i feel cheated!

I recently tried Magnolia's in NYC and went twice more during my 4-day stay...it was TO DIE FOR. My sister pulled up a recipe of one of the cakes we had and made it...it turned out just like the one we had in the bakery. I am a cake lover--I will eat any cake any day over anything else, so when I had Magnolia's I knew what I was eating--complete heaven! I am buying BOTH of the bakery cookbooks and not worrying about getting fat over it...totally worth it!