My Sweet Mexico: Recipes for Authentic Pastries, Breads, Candies, Beverages, and Frozen Treats [ABaking Book]

Took class at Cambridge Culinary on Mexican baking and then heard cookbook author interviewed on Milk Street Radio. This has been the only cookbook I could find with recipes for Conchas and there is so much more. Beautifully designed with many photos, well written and informative text. Recipes are great. I can highly recommend.

Great quality hard cover book with beautiful photos, layout, recipes, and writing style. I was looking for a baking book to explore traditional recipies from my roots and my childhood. This book is a wonderful addition to my baking library.I shared my book with my parents and they recognized many of the sweet treats from their childhood in Mexico. I enjoy being able to make my parents and family a special treat from this book and see them transported to their childhood and listening to their stories connected to the treats; I compare it to the scene in Ratatouille with the food critic and his soup. Buy it and add it to your library you’ll love it. My only dislike is lack of ingredient weight for each recipe. Most recipes in Mexico are by weight and I love to scale when I’m baking it makes all the difference. If revised editions are ever released please include weights.

My love affair with Mexican food arrived one day in 1952 when my mother received a "care package" from friends in the Southwest stuffed full of "Mexican" food. I suspect I've never had a worse tamale, but those canned tamales sparked a life-long pursuit of the the "best" in tacos and tamales and salsas by the dozens. And of course, I've been collecting Mexican cookbooks ever since - a fairly substantial chunk of the ethnic section of my collection (over 400 but I've lost count!).You don't have to spend much time in Mexico or have many Mexican friends to realize that sweets are a huge part of Mexican culture - and you don't have to visit many "Mexican" restaurants here in the US or read through many Mexican cookbooks to realize that there simply must be more than fried ice cream, churros, and a couple of cookie recipes. With  My Sweet Mexico: Recipes for Authentic Pastries, Breads, Candies, Beverages, and Frozen Treats , Fany Gerson fills a huge void, both on my library shelves and in my kitchen. My only problem? What to make first. . . . . tamales? or maybe that sweet potato candy? Milk fudge? Something frozen? HMMMMM . . .Beautiful book, highly recommended. This is a book you will treasure for a long time.

I have tried my hand at a few or these recipe, ie: the conchas, the cajeta and the churros and they have all come out wonderfully (atleast i thought they did). The conchas were soft and stayed that way using a method from maggie glezers book to scald the milk first, stopping an enzyme that makes the bread stale after a day or two. Since i have made a brioche before, I know that it can become stale in a short period. The churros were very addicting, using goat cheese it had a wonderful tangy flavor. I've never had one before, so it was an experience. How does one get it to stop floating into one another like a magnet when cooking two at a time?... and the cajeta, it took exactly one hour like gerson says it will. It was totally delicious, but it hardened so much, what do i do?... As i have said, i love this book and i love trying my hand at these wonderful mexican desserts. I'm still new to this so if any body can help me with some tips on mexican desserts that would be sweet... Enjoy!

I bought this book after having found (and tested) the recipe for conchas that Chow.com posted on their review of the book (The chow.com review mentions that their dough didn't rise, but for me the dough did rise quite a bit in one hour).The taste was so true to the sweet bread I grew up eating as a kid in Mexico, that I immediately bought the book.Once the book arrived I was amazed at some of the recipes listed there, some of them hard to find, that I had to share it with my female relatives. Long story short, my aunt has the original book and I just purchased a second book for myself.The recipes included there that I really look forward to try:Chongos zamoranosCajetaNatillaPastel de tres leches (to compare to my family recipe) AND chocolate pastel de tres lechescalabaza en tachalimones rellenos de cocorosca de reyesrosquillas de naranjapan de muertoalegriasgaznatesalfajorcamotitos poblanosmazapanes de cacahuate...just to name a few.The historical/research tidbits before each chapter are also greatly appreciated. I can't wait to get my second book!

I like this book "My Sweet Mexico." I rarely pay much for a cookbook, I have over 1000 now, but this cookbook had recipes I couldn't find anywhere else.Authentic would be a great way to describe all the recipes. I have traveled in Mexico and invited into the homes of my Mexican & Latino friends and these recipes are very expressive of their culture.Now the downside if you are looking specifically for a cookbook. There is a lot of narrative of(non-political) cultural history in this book. It makes for good reading, but takes up space where I would prefer recipes.I like the book, but would have liked it better at a little lower price. This book is worth having and since I'm a chef and a cookbook collector, I'm more price sensitive than most people would be.It is a book worth having in your kitchen, especially if you entertain.

Delicious recipes easy to follow, it covers a big spectrum of Mexican sweets.

I've tried a handful of recipes and they have worked out really well. Looking forward to trying more

Muy buenas recetas

Prompt delivery. Interesting recipes to try