A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale about a not-so-clever gingerbread man.

This keepsake cookbook features fetching retro patterns and illustrations, luscious photography, an embossed foil cover, and--surprise!--a tiny, vintage-style, booklet inside. Blue-ribbon recipes inspired by baking pamphlets from the 1920s to the 1960s are rendered with irresistible charm for modern tastes in this sweet package. Here are more than 50 cookies, pies, cakes, bars, and more, plus informative headnotes detailing the origins of each recipe...

An illustrated guide to baking provides four hundred recipes and instructions for simple steps to enable high-quality results, sharing tips for adapting recipes for personal taste while providing such options as cinnamon rolls, herbed boule and raspberry French silk pie bars.

Serving these irresistible treats will make you feel like the perfect host, whether it's a summer picnic or a holiday dinner.

Amelia Bedelia inadvertently enters a baking contest and goes from being a smart cookie to a fortune cookie.

"Bringing together classic pairings and imaginative combinations, The Great British Baking Show: Favorite Flavors is a collection of 80 sweet and savory recipes directly from the team behind the show"--Back cover.

When Lexy Baker makes it to the finale of America's most prestigious bakery contest, Bakery Battles, she thinks her biggest dream has finally come true..til she stumbles across the dead body of judge Amanda Scott-aunders. What starts out as a bad day for Lexy becomes even worse when the police discover the judge was strangled with Lexy's apron. Now Lexy' sitting at the top of the suspect list with a motive, means and opportunity...but no solid alibi....

While visiting her grandparents, literal-minded Amelia Bedelia finally learns, despite some mishaps, how to bake an apple pie.