The Art and Science of Baking: Essential Guide for Home Bakers | Perfect for Cakes, Cookies & Bread Making

It is a really interesting read for me but then I am a nerd who likes to bake and know why things do what they do. It doesn’t provide practical applications like if you want texture x use this ratio of eggs and flour. What it does do is give you an understanding of the role and various contributions of individual ingredients to the overall magic that is baking. If you want something more specific that will help with you baking, I highly recommend any books created by America’s Test Kitchen. They literally perform empirical experiments to find out the best way to make a particular item and then write out the results as a recipe and explain why it works. This book is a great appetizer.