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Happiness Is Baking: Recipes from Maida Heatter
Last Updated October 05, 2019
This spring’s release, Happiness Is Baking, features many of Maida’s greatest hits. Award-winning cookbook author Dorie Greenspan, who wrote the foreword, says Maida Heatter helped make her a baker.
“In our house, Maida Heatter, who might as well have been a kitchen god, was always given full title, as in, ‘Is that another Maida Heatter recipe?’” she says. “Long before the internet, long before people cooked or baked their way through a book and shared their adventures with their followers, I baked my way through Maida Heatter’s Book of Great Desserts and shared everything I baked with my husband, my friends, my workmates and the men who ran the elevator in our apartment building.”
These recipes are some favorites.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Chocolate Cookies
Add these to your cookie repertoire – they're super-chocolatey. Use pecans instead of walnuts for a Florida flavor. From Maida Heatter's Happiness Is Baking.
Oranges in Rum, Cuban Style
Look for local guava jelly to use in Maida Heatter's recipe, from Happiness is Baking,
86-proof Chocolate Cake
Don't be fooled by its humble appearance. This easy-to-make cake from the late dessert queen Maida Heatter is chocolate-y and delightfully boozy.
Florida Lemon Squares
Think of a tart, crunchy lemon pie-in-a-bar. These are from Happiness Is Baking by Maida Heatter.
