I’m a sucker for a pretty baking cookbook and one that helps me finally master marshmallows? I’m sold! I was pretty excited to receive the Butter Baked Goods cookbook just in time for the holiday baking season. Featuring over 100 recipes for classic baked goods – childhood favorites that you will want to make over and over again—including the recipe for Butter’s Famous Marshmallows – the item that really put the bakery on the map and which now exists in 18 different flavours!
Butter Baked Goods began its life as a tiny bakery, opened in 2007 by Rosie Daykin in Vancouver. Soon after opening, word got out about the bakery’s marshmallows and Butter Baked Goods marshmallows can now be found in over 300 stores (and counting) across Canada, the U.S. and Japan. The recipe for Rosie’s feted marshmallows is just one of the reasons to buy this beautiful book.
I loved that the recipes in Butter Baked Goods are easy-to-follow – making the gorgeous treats so accessible for all levels of bakers (even the marshmallows). With recipes for homemade treats to celebrate all of life’s milestones – birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, baby showers, bridal showers; or a gloomy, rainy afternoon when you need a little pick-me-up – Butter Baked Goods is home baking at its very best.
I’ve bookmarked a fair number of recipes in the book but I was immediately drawn to the marshmallows (especially after tasting them at the Butter Baked Goods launch in the Toronto offices of Random House Canada a few weeks ago). In fact, I have made marshmallows before but wasn’t convinced that they were easy enough to make again. Rosie promised me that I would change my mind about making marshmallows at home once I had made her recipe.
Guess what? She was right. I made these one evening – they literally took under 30 minutes to whip up – and left them on the counter top overnight to set. The next morning, it was a breeze (albeit a messy one, caked in icing sugar!) to cut them and I was thrilled to taste them – the texture was perfect (not too gelatin-y and melt-in-your mouth soft!) and I had flavoured them with mint extract ever so slightly for something a little different. This made a LOT of marshmallows (I cut them smaller than the prescribed 1×1 inch size) so, as with most baking projects, they ended up in my staff room. People were impressed by how “real” they tasted and looked 🙂 I’ll be making these again for holiday treats. Homemade versions of people’s favourite recipes? They are the best!
I’m so excited to be able to share the recipe with you today.
Excerpted from Butter Baked Goods by Rosie Daykin Copyright 2013 Appetite by Random House. Published with permission, originally shared on The Cake Blog.
Easy homemade marshmallows from the Butter Baked Goods cookbook. Excerpted from Butter Baked Goods by Rosie Daykin Copyright 2013 Appetite by Random House. Published with permission.Butter's Famous Marshmallows
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Win a copy of Butter Baked Goods (Canada)! EDITED TO ADD: CONTEST CLOSED
That’s right – thanks to the kind folks at Random House Canada I have a signed copy of Butter Baked Goods up for grabs for readers in Canada!
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1. Leave a comment below telling me why you’d like to win the Butter Baked Goods Cookbook.
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Contest closes on Wednesday, December 11th at 6pm EST. Winner will be chosen by random.org and will be notified by email on December 12th 2013.
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the book looks amazing and definitive I like marshmallows. thanks
Would love to win the butter bakery cookbook! Yet anther book I’ve been eyeing. The photos inside are so adorable and you can tell they make great stuff. And I regret not checking then it when I was in van this summer! 🙁
I need some new baking recipes. Maybe this book will inspire me to try some new ones!
I loooovee pretty cookbooks! And baking’s definitely an area I’d like to work on. This book looks like the perfect addition to my collection!
Tweeted! 🙂 https://twitter.com/nessaporter/status/408233920304795648
The cover of the book looks amazing… would LOVE to try their recipes!
If the marshmallow recipe and the goregeous photos of your marshmallows are any indication of the quality and ease of the recipes, it would be a delight to work through this book. Thanks!
Dying to try those marshmallows, and I’ve heard great things about her cupcakes, too!
I tweeted as well!
https://twitter.com/mostlyyalit/status/408258255782019072
Such a beautiful book, looking forward to trying the marshmallows and some of her other treats!
Homemade marshmallows can be messy, but so worth the effort!
I love Rosie’s book – going to get a copy.
Thanks for supporting us pinkies, Mardi!
I have this book on my wish list. I love to make goodies that have the sweet taste of butter and goodies that I know others will appreciate. This book looks like it incorporates that in the recipes,
and tweeted @kathyrun
i live for pastries and desserts, this is a must have for my bookshelf!
i tweeted – @citygal28
Your marshmallows look beautiful! I love that you did them in pink…perfect match for a cup of hot cocoa.
I have been coveting this cookbook for weeks! The cover is so beautiful and makes you want to bake (and eat) everything on it. I would love to win the cookbook so I can try to make those delicious looking marshmallows!!
I would love to try my hand at those beautiful marshmallows.
I want that book! If the other recipes are as good as those marshmallows look, I’m afraid for my waist line 😉
Oh, my! Decisions, decisions. All of the treats look delicious. Where to start? The pink cake with khaki trim (?) is delightful. And oh, to have the recipe!! Thanks for the opportunity to win this lovely book.
Gorgeous confectionary, Mardi — they looks like sunset clouds! I’m not eligible for the giveaway, which means I’ll have to buy this book at my local indie. Thanks for the introduction!
Thanks for sharing that recipe – marshmallows are something I’ve always wanted to try. I’ve been eying this cookbook for a while, too.
Wow your marshmallows turned out beautiful. Yum! I would love to win this cookbook.
I just tweeted about the give way. Thanks!
Also tweeted! https://twitter.com/carmenhungry/status/408217328346996736
Gorgeous marshmallows, Mardi! I want/need/love this cookbook. I’ve heard so many amazing things about it. Thanks for the opportunity! Xo PS – Tweeted about the giveaway as well.
My roommateand I moved to Vancouver last September and stumbled upon Butter Baked goods in Whole Foods and then the bakery itself. They are really really delicious – we seek them out! However, we are both nearing the end of our Master’s programs and will be headed to different sides of the continent. I would love to win this book and share it with her as a way to stay in touch, with delicious treats and skype dates. ^-^
Tweeted from @thebookwars! <3
I would like to in this cookbook because the baked goods look so tasty and it would be fun to make them at home. I tweeted (@greenurlifenow)
I always thought marshmallows would be hard to make but these look pretty easy.
With three kids I am always looking for delicious cook friendly recipes tgat I can get the kids interested in helping me with. This book looks like a sure hit.
I love the cover of this cookbook – looks so pretty! – that’s one reason I would like to win and also, I would like to attempt the marshmallows – they look scrumptious!! Also, I tweeted.
Gema
I would like to win so I can give it to my friend and suggest she make all the recipes and I will be the taste tester for her! That is what friends are for!
Tweeted!
https://twitter.com/CantonCathy/status/409779177861033984
Oh, I’d love to win this cookbook… I love classic recipes – you can’t beat them when it comes to baking! It would be so nice to have these recipes at my fingertips when it’s time for a sweet treat.
I absolutely LOVE baking and think this book would be great to add to my collection! It looks like it would be a lot of fun! I am definitely going to try that marshmallow recipe!
BTW- I tweeted also 🙂
Well, you had me at butter and this looks like a delightful book!
I tweeted https://twitter.com/carollushka/status/410605924684791808
I’ve only ever tried to make marshmallows with egg whites, but I would definitely like to try this eggless version from the book. You are right though, it is quite messy the next morning trying to cut them. I think I tried scissors when I made marshmallows last time. I’m not sure if that was better or worse, lol!
I would love this to make more yummy goodies to share with my family and friends
I am the lucky winner. 🙂 Thanks to Mardi, to RandomHouse Canada, and to Rosie Daykin (for the book and the autograph)! This is the most beautiful of recipe books. A delight to touch. The photographs and the small details, like the old-fashioned wallpaper in the inside cover pages, show a loving hand. Not only are the recipes accessible and not-at-all daunting, there are helpful instructions (for example, using piping bags) to help build confidence (much needed in my case). A fabulous book. Thanks again!
I love cookbooks! This one looks amazing.