Title:	100 Afternoon Sweets: With Snacking Cakes, Brownies, Blondies, and More (100 Baking Recipes for Every Kitchen)
	Author:	Sarah Kieffer
	Published:	October 1, 2024, Chronicle Books
	No. of Pages:	304
	Cover Price:	$24.73 Hardcover, $13.99 Kindle

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Popular food blogger, Sarah Kieffer is known for a series of cookbooks, all excellent, but 100 Afternoon Sweets: With Snacking Cakes, Brownies, Blondies, and More (100 Baking Recipes for Every Kitchen) may just be her best. It is full of mouthwatering baked goods that are hard to resist.

This cookbook includes pies, cakes, bars, brownies, pastries, and basics such as caramel, basic buttercreams (several flavors), pie crust, croissant dough, and puff paste, etc. The recipes – not necessarily just for afternoons – are very tempting. There are even no-bake recipes including ice cream and crispy treats.

The recipes are written in the traditional manner with the ingredients listed first, followed by step-by-step instructions. None are particularly difficult to make and bakers, both beginning and advanced, will find they have no trouble making them. There are well-written comments, tips, and vignettes at the beginning to each of the recipes.

One positive thing about this cookbook is that most of the recipes include beautiful, professional photographs that give bakers a hint about what the finished product will look like.

According to some of the other reviewers, their copies came with a list of errors that are in the book. I haven’t had any trouble with any of the recipes I have tried – they have all turned out good – so, I’m not sure if my copy was corrected before publishing. All told, this is an excellent cookbook and I plan to bake recipes from it often.


Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.