Blue Ribbon Baking - Hardcover

Filled with over two hundred award-winning recipes, Blue Ribbon Baking is the ultimate guide to all things pastry! Whether you are a home cook or a competitive baker, these mouth-watering recipes will take your desserts and breads to the next level. Easy-to-follow recipes are accompanied by thorough explanations of the techniques required to make each type of baked good. For those planning on entering a state or county fair competition, author Linda J. Amendt reveals how the judging process works and shares her insider secrets on how to win the top awards.

She should know! Amendt has won nearly one thousand awards in state and county fair food competitions across the country, including more than seven hundred first-place blue ribbons and special awards for excellence, and she serves as a competition judge. In addition to winning numerous Best of Show Awards, blue ribbon Baked Goods Sweepstakes awards, and Preserved Foods Sweepstakes awards, she was also the Top Preserved Foods Competitor in the United States for two years and the Top Preserved Foods Competitor in California for five years.