Barbara’s Baking and Pressure Cooking Cookbooks
I have a new cookbook coming out in September, so I thought it was the perfect time to share more info about the Baking and Pressure Cooking Cookbooks I’ve published. Two pressure cooking cookbooks and one baking cookbook—but two cookbooks dedicated just to sweets (and even the non-sweets cookbook has a desserts section)! All of these cookbooks have clear directions and use familiar ingredients to make great-tasting meals and sweets.
These books have been a labor of love—I hope you enjoy cooking from them as much as I’ve enjoyed creating them!
Long-time followers of BarbaraBakes will know about my obsession with pressure cooking, which I blog about at Pressure Cooking Today. Today, I wanted to let you know about the latest and greatest going on over there: a new cookbook focused exclusively on making sweets in your Instant Pot or other brand of electric pressure cooker!
Instantly Sweet: 75 Desserts and Sweet Treats from Your Instant Pot or Other Electric Pressure Cooker is scheduled for release on September 2018!
For this cookbook, I’ve teamed up with my friend and former Pressure Cooking Today contributor, Marci Buttars from tidbits-marci.com. The two of us have created an awesome range of dessert recipes that really harness the strengths of this amazing machine!
Instantly Sweet starts with a quick pressure cooker guide, equipment recommendations, and tips for getting the best results on the dessert recipes. The recipes themselves are divided into the following sections:
- Quick Breads & Breakfasts
- Cheesecakes
- Lava Cakes
- Cakes
- Pies
- Cobblers & Fruit Desserts
- Custards & Puddings
- Sauces, Fillings, and Toppings
Basically, we want to be your go-to source for making sweets your Instant Pot or other electric pressure cooker!
➡ Preorder your copy of Instantly Sweet today! ⬅
The Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook
I released my first pressure cooking cookbook, The Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook, in October 2017.
The Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook includes 200 recipes: 50 of the most popular recipes from Pressure Cooking Today and 150 all-new electric pressure cooker recipes that have become new favorites.
The recipes in the cookbook are a good mix of old-fashioned American favorites, international cuisines with an American flair, and healthy meals with trendy ingredients. In addition, they represent a wide variety of skill levels—the most basic are easy enough for my six-year-old grandson to cook by himself with minimal supervision.
THE ELECTRIC PRESSURE COOKER COOKBOOK is available at your favorite local bookstore, and at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indiebound, Powells, QuartoKnows, and in Canada at Indigo-Chapters.
Interested in Pressure Cooking?
If you’re interested in pressure cooking but don’t know where to start, I have a library of helpful information at my other blog, Pressure Cooking Today.
If you’re still deciding on a pressure cooker, I have detailed reviews of popular pressure cookers (including several models of Instant Pot, the Fagor Lux, the Power Pressure Cooker XL, and the budget-friendly Crockpot Express). I also include many helpful tutorials like the Getting Started Guide, Accessory Recommendations, Which Button to Use Guide, and Easy Recipes for Beginning Pressure Cooker Cooks.
The Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook also has a detailed starting guide, recipe conversion guidelines, and a helpful troubleshooting section.
Dream Puffs: Shockingly Easy Fun-Filled Treats
Last, but certainly not least, new readers may not be aware that I have a baking e-cookbook devoted exclusively to making cream puffs, eclairs, and profiteroles.
Released in 2015, Dream Puffs teaches readers to make these looks-hard-but-are-actually-easy desserts. I’m not exaggerating—the pastry shells have a few basic ingredients that come together quick and easy. The fillings are simple as well. But when you put them together, it looks and tastes like you bought these puffs straight from an expensive bakery.
There are a wide variety of flavors in this cookbook! I’m a little partial to chocolate eclairs—my favorite dessert as a little girl—but I honestly can’t pick a favorite. (Though, I do keep frozen graham pastry shells on-hand to make toasted marshmallow S’mores Cream Puffs.)
I also have supplemental materials available on my blog: Cream Puff Piping Templates, a How-To Video and Step-by-Step Instructions, and some sample recipes.
I hope you enjoy the recipes in my baking and pressure cooking cookbooks as much as I enjoyed creating them.
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Excited to see the Sweets Cookbook!!
Thanks so much Letty!!
I’m so happy for you and all of your success with your cookbooks.
I love your Dream puffs cookbook because, well, we all love cream puffs in this family and your book has SO many delicious options to choose from. There’s something for everyone.
Your Electric Pressure Cookbook is my “bible” when it comes to pressure cooking. The recipes are easy and delicious-and use ingredients readily available to everyone. I keep it right near my recipe box on my kitchen counter so I can grab it quick and get cooking. The pressure cooker is used pretty much daily here so that cookbook gets a LOT of use. I won’t cook corn on the cob any other way now except in the pressure cooker…and your Old Fashioned Potato Salad? A staple here now that summer has arrived. I just made a batch yesterday to go with some 7-Up Grilled Chicken-it is delicious. The cheesecakes in that cookbook are over the top too……SO much to choose from.
I can’t WAIT for Instantly Sweet to arrive…..knowing you and Marci, I have NO doubt whatsoever that there are some decadently delicious treats just waiting to be made. What’s going to be hard is picking what to try first. Now who can I sign up to be taste testers? Hmmmmm….methinks Bob will be first in line! 🙂
I know how much work you do getting all those recipes created and perfected. Thank you so much for sharing it all on your blogs and in these cookbooks. I’ve learned so much from you and look forward to what’s ahead.