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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.
Jan LeBaron
Congratulations, Barbara! I’m so excited to see the finished product! I love cream puffs and especially eclairs. But, I’ve never had profiteroles. They sound wonderful!
Emily
I love this and I’m SO excited for you!
Melissa @ Bless this Mess
How exciting! Congrats friend!
Kathy Strahs
Many congrats, Barbara!! I can’t wait for it to come out! 🙂
Foodiewife
I just love it when a food blogger publishes a cookbook. I can imagine that it’s a lot of hard work. I had wondered why you were sharing a photo of food props, and now the secret is out. Congratulations. You know I’ll be one of the first customers.
Heidi @foodiecrush
Way to go Barbara! So thrilled for you and can’t wait for your book release party since I’m hoping there will be plenty of taste testing involved!
Amanda
Barbara I am so excited for you!! Congratulations, can’t wait to see it!
Cathy at Wives with Knives
Congratulations, Barbara! How exciting to see a collection of your wonderful recipes in print. I know your book will do extremely well. Watching the photographers must have been great fun and so interesting. I’ll look forward to having a copy of my own.
Shelby
That is such great news Barbara! I can’t wait to see your cookbook. I have always loved cream puffs also, my favorite of all desserts.
Miss @ Miss in the Kitchen
How incredible! I’m so excited for your cookbook and totally inspired that you got to watch the team in action and that your cookbook is being published by Oxmoor House!
Katrina
Congratulations to you! That is wonderful! Can’t wait for the cookbook. Cream puffs are well loved around here.
Adri
Well congratulations to you, and best wishes for tremendous sales. I adore cream puffs, eclairs, and most of all, profiteroles. I look forward to purchasing a copy of your book. It is quite something to see just how many people it takes to put a cookbook together. It sounds like you had a delightful time working with the folks at Oxmoor House. Let’s hope that this is the first of many successful collaborations! Again, best wishes to you for great success. I will certainly help spread the word.
Donalyn@TheCreeksideCook
Congratulations, and I am pea green with envy that you got to see this great team at work as they did the photography. Two amazing things, really – a new cookbook and an incredible couple days of lessons!
KalynsKitchen
How fun! I am so happy for you. (And Todd and Diane have a lot of props, but not this many. Wow.)
Sandy@Reluctant Entertainer
YAY, Barbara. So proud of your accomplishment, lady! Awesome! Can’t wait to see it.
Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious
HUUUUGE congrats! What an outstanding project! Cannot wait for a whole year to see it!
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
A big congratulations mum!!! That is awesome news! I can’t wait to buy myself a copy of it. I’m so proud of you! xxx
Paula
I’m SOOOOO happy for you! This is amazing! I can’t wait to get my hands on your amazing book!!!!
Jenn
I’m so excited for you. I can’t wait to buy this book!! Congratulations. You deserve all of this goodness.
Rosa
Congratulations, I am so happy for you!
Cheers,
Rosa
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Rosa!