Comfort pastries are the focus of this unique tablet edition. GREAT COFFEE CAKES contains recipes for the kinds of pastries that are not overly sweet that you can enjoy most any time of day with a satisfying cup of coffee or tea. The recipes run the gamut from easy to more challenging.

Throughout the chapters are recipes for outstanding varieties of muffins, quick breads, biscuits, and scones. Also included are wonderful recipes for creative cookies, biscotti, and rugelah-type pastries. Lovers of Pound Cakes will welcome Carole’s chapter on these popular favorites well as her chapter on enticing butter-style cakes.

You won’t want to miss the chapter on easy yeasted cakes. Here Carole gives clear directions for three fail-proof refrigerated doughs to use in classics like Sticky Buns and Babka Cake. Carole’s chapter on classic European pastries like Danish, puff pastry and strudel is a true treasure, inspired by her studies in the kitchens of renowned pastry chefs from France, Austria, and Denmark.

Along with directions for a traditional hand-pulled strudel dough, there is also a simpler version made with packaged Fillo. There are detailed illustrations to help you along and delectable photographs to whet your appetite. Soon your kitchen will be filled with the seductive aromas of these comforting treats from GREAT COFFEE CAKES, STICKY BUNS, MUFFINS & MORE .