Becoming the baker of your dreams is easy—all it takes is a healthy appetite for learning and pinch of persistence!
You don’t need a pantry full of specialty ingredients and equipment to become a great baker. You’ll quickly learn in Dessert Course that mastering a few foundational skills and understanding the whys and hows of baking science is all you need.
Benjamin Delwiche, AKA Benjamin the Baker, is a math teacher by day and renegade social media baking scientist by night. His approach to baking is inspired by his approach to teaching—he’s committed to breaking down the mystery of baking success so his audience, like his students, can become stronger and more knowledgeable.
First, you’ll learn how to break down a recipe, the essential mixing methods, and even how to re-formulate any recipe to make it work to your advantage. Let’s say you want to make chocolate chip cookies but you only have a few tablespoons of flour left—using Ben’s Baker’s Percentages technique, you’ll be able to figure out how many cookies you can make. The second half of the book showcases over 30 core recipes with variations—each one includes a flow chart so you can bake your own adventure. You’ll be able to visually understand what makes a chewy chocolate chip cookie vs a crispy one and what it will take to get to your desired destination.
Above all else, this book is a celebration of the art and science of baking: the ingredients, the recipes, and the concepts that make a baked good both technically successful and undeniably delicious.
Amazing visuals, lessons, and recipes
"Perfectly demonstrates different baking concepts through the examples of different recipes. This book equips the baker with the knowledge and skills needed to develop their own recipes, or to make changes to get the result they want. He breaks down the math and chemistry in easy to follow charts and actually shows the comparison results of adding too much or too little of something. Clear flowcharts give the baker creative freedom to make whatever kind of dessert they want; he doesn't say what's right or wrong. Basic recipes for lots of essential baked goods and their variations. I have yet to read the whole thing but I'm definitely excited to check it out fully. The only thing I have is that there isn't a picture accompanied with every single recipe to show what it looks like, but I guess we could just search it up lol. All-in-all, amazing visuals and lessons."
