Bake Your Sweet Time

What do you want to bake? How long have you got?

On a mission to make baking FUN as well as DELICIOUS, The Caketoonist has written her first cookbook to celebrate 20 classic treats in a variety of ways and featuring over 100 recipes. Using a treat's classic ingredients and flavors, each chapter features multiple recipes arranged according to the time and effort involved in producing them, so you can fit the recipe to the time you have. You can throw together a batch of cookies and still have time to file your tax return... or you can fully commit to laminated croissant dough when, happily, the bachelorette party weekend of axe-throwing and group tattoos gets canceled.

It's quick bakes for a quick fix in a 15-minute lull; it's medium-length foolproof recipes for a 90-minute interlude; and it's all-day, multi-step, big WOW bakes for when you're lucky enough to take your sweet time over straining, proving, chilling or tempering.