Happiness Is Baking: 
Recipes from Maida Heatter

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.