Today I’m super excited to officially announce that I’ve written a cookbook! It’s called Dream Puffs and the ebook is available to purchase on Amazon. It’s all about cream puffs, eclairs, and profiteroles.
I’ve been baking puffs in my kitchen for over 30 years. These luscious desserts are easy to make at home for a fraction of the cost of buying them at a bakery. In Dream Puffs in addition to the recipes, there are tips and templates that make cream puff baking even easier.
My publisher is Oxmoor House, the cookbook division of Time, Inc. Dream Puffs is part of their Simply Sweet series of cookbooks.
I spent two days this week in beautiful Birmingham, Alabama at Oxmoor House’s offices watching Helene Dujardin, the senior photographer at Oxmoor House, and the talented team at Oxmoor House while they worked their magic creating the fabulous pictures for Dream Puffs.
Helene’s photo stylist while I was there was Catherine Steele (Cat), along with styling fellow, Amanda Widis. My wonderful editor, Allison Cox, and talented graphic designer for the cookbook, Maribeth Jones, stopped by the set to help select the perfect cover photo.
I also had the pleasure of meeting Felicity Keane the creative director, Grace Parisi the executive food director, Iain Bagwell the executive director of photography, Caroline Smith photography fellow, Mindi Shapiro senior photo stylist, Margaret Dickey photo stylist, and the test kitchen developer who tested my recipes, Callie Nash.
The food stylists bring a cart from the test kitchen to the set filled with the food, and everything they need to create gorgeous food for each shot. The cart is filled with paint brushes, tweezers, spray bottles, baby wipes for cleaning up messes and so much more.
The Oxmoor House prop rooms are filled top to bottom with dishes, pans, glasses, serving plates, napkins, table cloths, and utensils. It’s a food bloggers dream to have so many styling options.
I learned so many little tips to creating prettier food for my photos. Here Cat’s using a painting sponge to perfectly drizzle glaze on the eclairs.
There was a notebook filled with photos they’ve already taken, and I can’t wait for you to see them too. The cookbook is going to be gorgeous with a photo of every delicious dessert.
Most people are familiar with cream puffs and eclairs, but not profiteroles. Profiteroles are cream puff shells filled with ice cream and served like a sundae with gooey ice cream toppings.
Chocolate eclairs have been my favorite dessert since I was a little girl, but since creating all the fun, new recipes for Dream Puffs I can’t pick a favorite. I love them all and hope you will too.
Update: Simply Sweet Dream Puffs: Shockingly Easy Fun-Filled Treats!
is now available on Amazon!
Michelle Jerome
where can I purchase the dream puffs book
Jersey Girl Cooks
Congrats Barbara! Somehow with the holidays I missed this post. I love creampuffs…they are one of my favorite desserts.
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Lisa! What’s not to love about a cream puff 🙂
Poom at The Jewsian Fusion
Congratulations!! I look forward to the book, I LOVE any kind of puff!
Red Star Yeast
Congratulations, Barbara!
Kitchen Belleicious
no way Barbara! I am soooooo excited and sooo happy for you with your new cookbook! I know it is going to be a hit and I can’t wait to buy my first copy. I have always admired your baking and to have your very own recipes for puffs and the like is going to be great! Congrats girl!
Sue {munchkin munchies}
What a fun process! I bet you DID get a lot of photo/photo prop tips, even though yours are already fabulous! CONGRATS, Barbara! Can’t wait to get my own copy! 🙂
Darlene
Congratulations! I don’t know anyone whose cookbook I would trust more than yours to help me make something delicious.
Carol at Wild Goose Tea
If any food blogger should put out a cookbook—It’s YOU. I love your blog and recipes. I wish heavy duty success. This was a very fun blog to see the behind the scenes deal.
Barbara | Creative Culinary
There are few new cookbooks I really want; my library is filled to the brim with ones I’ve not even opened yet. But this one I want; these are all my favorite things! VERY excited for you…and how fun to get to go to the shoot and meet all of those talented people.
Megan {Country Cleaver}
Ohhhh Barbara!! All the best and so many congrats!!
Linda
You go girl! Congratulations!
Brenda @ a farmgirl's dabbles
How wonderful! What a fabulous experience this must have been, seeing your cookbook come to life. Congrats to you, can’t wait to see your book!
Vickie S.
Congratulations! I can’t wait to buy it! I love and have made all three, so look forward to some wonderful recipes!
Alice @ Hip Foodie Mom
Congrats Barbara!!! can’t wait to get the book!!!
Dorothy N
This is such exciting news! I can’t wait until next fall when I can purchase your beautiful book. Yum!!
Jamie
This is so exciting!!! Thanks for sharing these great photos of the shoot. I knew you were writing a cookbook but I didn’t know it was all about my favorite treat! Choux! Love! And a huge congratulations!
Medeja
Great news! Congratulations with your book!
Hala
Congratulations!!