More than 100 Recipes and Make-It-Yourself Projects to Create and Share
December 1, 2014
In this follow-up to their bestselling Back in the Day Bakery cookbook, Cheryl and Griffith Day give fans more of the down-home recipes that have made their Savannah, Ga., bakery a destination. Bursting with more than 100 recipes, the Days serve up another heaping helping of baked comfort food in the form of Southern classics like buttermilk biscuits, Coca-Cola cake (served here with a Coke-infused chocolate icing), lane cake, and a luscious Georgia peach pie, in addition to Southern riffs on, e.g., the banofee pie, a British classic that incorporates bananas, toffee, and chocolate, modified here to include a crust made from graham crackers and pecans. Though the Days are wordy at times, the narrative is instructive and warming. The inclusion of crafts like a marshmallow chandelier and a “keepsake cake topper” seems jarring rather than jovial, the only off note. This is a terrific sequel, and fans of Southern baking (not to mention baking in general) will want to add it to their collection.