This is a compilation of 30 recipes from other online sources that can be made in about 30 minutes and from scratch/minimal if any preprepped store-bought ingredients. The recipes have a nice variety of flavor profiles, and there are fun baking related memes or images throughout. Each recipe is credited and includes an image. I could see this book being useful if someone consistently needed dessert recipes that are quick to make but didn't want to search for their own. Since the recipes all seem to be free content that could be found from the original source, I don't know that I would pay much for this.
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

There is nothing here that you can't easily find online. Each recipe talks alittle about it, then a pic of the it made and a link to the free website that the original author made it on. I prefer to get right into the recipes which this doesn't do. All the deserts are quick to make and from scratch but as they are all online its not worth paying anything for it.

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is a book I expected alot more from.
The cookery book is basically a book hosting recipes by other people with links to their web sites etc and shows a picture of the dessert, the recipe and then shows a quote about desserts. The book felt thrown together for me and I don't think the cover really goes with the desserts in the book.
The book would have been better if it showed the people who put it together making the recipies and how they turned out and how they rated the dishes.

An Anthology of Thirty, 30 Minute Made-From-Scratch Desserts...: Desserts just like Grandma used to make... by Editors of CakeChatter is a collection of dessert recipes supplemented with notes from online bakers who have also made the recipes - so basically it is an ebook version of just about any recipe source currently available online. Even the random graphics have been taken from online sources. Not a fan.

OMG! I think I gained 10 pounds just reading this delicious, lovely, fun cookbook! Even though I’m hypoglycemic, there are a few recipes in here I can definitely try and I know the grandkids will like those peanut butter cornflake cookies. I also enjoyed the quotes about baking and cooking interspersed between the recipes. Job well done!

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Great recipes and guidance to achieve this.

Come on let's get cooking and enjoy these tasty dishes.

Wonderful. Book of recipes.I will be using this cook book again& again.Recipes that made me hungry just reading the ingredients.Theres a photo with each recipe to make it even more delightful.Would make a perfect gift to any foodie beginning or advanced.#netgalley#tarahouse

I was fascinated by the recipes in this book as they are clearly explained and easy to understand.
I liked the illustrations and I recommend it.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

Thank you NetGalley, Editors of CakeChatter and Tara House Publications for the ARC of An Anthology of Thirty 30Minute Made From Scratch Desserts Desserts just like Grandma used to make. In exchange this is my personal honest opinion.
I was not sure what to expect when I opened this book – I was thinking it would be redo recipes of Grandmothers recipes. I was absolutely thrilled with what I was reading.
It is a book of recipes that remind us of what we grew up with and the way we will make them now.
I really liked the directions given for the recipes that would make the process of making them quick and easy.
I know that some of the recipes will for sure be made over and over again for my family.
This is a cookbook I will tell my friends and family they have to buy.

To start this cover reflects the book. The cover is nostalgic and yet simple. The recipes included are like those of bygone days and or ones that have come back slowly. These recipes are easy to understand and having the pictures to see a representation for them helps to see what the finished project should look like. This book will definitely be recommended as an easy getting started into the world of cooking.

What a yummy book. Everyone will have their favorite in this book. So many recipes that are on the easier side, even better!!

Thanks to publisher and Netgalley for chance to read this book. While I got the book for free,it had no bearing on the rating I gave it.

An Anthology of Thirty, 30 Minute Made-From-Scratch Desserts is a short e-cookbook by the editors of CakeChatter. Released 12th May 2020, it's 137 pages and available in ebook format. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately. For Kindle Unlimited subscribers, this book is included in the KU subscription library to borrow and read for free. As far as I can see, the recipes are well curated from the content included on the blog, sparing the reader from having to hunt for them.

The recipes have their ingredients listed bullet style in a sidebar. Measurements are given in US standard only. Special tools and ingredients are also listed, along with yields and cooking directions. Most of the ingredients are easily sourced at any moderately well stocked grocery store. Nutritional information is included in the footer at the end of the recipes and includes calories, fat, sodium, carbs, protein, sodium, potassium, fibre, sugar, vitamin content and micro-nutrients.Tips and variations on each recipe are included in after the step by step directions. There are small color photos for each recipe.

The book also includes a short metric conversion chart, but lacks any index or general ingredients index.

Four stars. This would make a superlative selection for busy cooks, and is apparently the start of a series (next volume is yeast rolls and biscuits).

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

One word for this cookbook: Quirky! It's like finding recipes on a blog, very casual/informal language, followed by suggestions from people who made the recipe from a post online. Supposedly these each take only 30 minutes, though I'm a bit skeptical in a few cases. Some of the recipes are traditional comfort food, such as Coca Cola Cake or Key Lime Pie, while others are a bit more unique (e.g., Ricotta-Mascarpone Mousse with Balsamic Strawberries or Peach Napoleon with Sugared Wonton Wrappers). Cute little "posters" are scattered throughout to add a bit of humor related to that recipe. One unusual thing: there's a metric conversion chart tucked in the middle of all the recipes--not sure if this is intentional or misplaced. And, the best thing? There is a photo of every single dessert! I love this and do not find it very often in a cookbook.

Absolutely absorbed this book. I bookmarked at least 20 recipes I want to make and try. I love that there is an image with each recipe, the simplicity of the instructions and the overall layout. I look forward to reading and using future publications along these same lines. Really enjoyed this title and cannot wait to bake.

The idea is great but the execution.. A few things: I don’t think my grandma used a microwave back in the day... a mugcake?! Premade cannoli shells? I’ll stop naming the recipes. It’s not at all what I expected from the nice graphics and description.

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure why anybody should be making money off of this "book." It's a compilation of 30 recipes grabbed right from the internet (photos, comments and all), from sites like Taste of Home, Allrecipes, Better Homes and Gardens, and people's blogs. It's 30 recipes from the internet. That's it. Why on earth would you buy this book, and why would the "authors" have the rights to make money off of it?

Then there's the second issue, which is that these are not the kinds of recipes my grandmother would have made. First of all, my grandmother was the dean of education at a university and didn't bake a lot of desserts, but if she did, they would not have consisted of things like pouring melted butter and sugar over graham crackers and then adding melted white "melting wafers" and broken candy canes.

Some of the recipes are from scratch and I appreciate that the editors gave directions to make your own whipped cream and graham cracker crusts, but you cannot in one breath say that your cookbook recommends organic foods and making things entirely from scratch and then in the next minute have recipes that call for cans of Coke, instant pudding mix, corn syrup, "melting wafers," purchased angel food cake, wonton wrappers, corn flakes, elderflower syrup (okay, I happen to have many jars of home canned elderflower syrup on my canning shelves, but how many others do?), butterscotch chips, mini marshmallows, toffee bits and Rice Crispies. There's nothing wrong with using these ingredients, but don't say that you don't use any purchased ingredients -- and criticize other cookbooks that do -- if you do exactly that.

From the description:

"We selected only those dessert recipes that use natural ingredients. We also noted in our research that many so-called “30-minute desserts” were created using store-bought items like ladyfingers, which were then covered with canned fruit and chocolate and the ultimate—Cool-Whip and *Voila!* Dessert in less than 30 minutes! While this may be fine for some, this is not CakeChatter’s idea of a made-from-scratch dessert.

Our desserts are fast and are made-from-scratch (and we mean from scratch!) in 30 minutes (some a few minutes more, so forgive us)."

Most of the recipes are easy, and I'm intrigued by the idea of a "cheesecake" that is only cream cheese and powdered sugar (topped with peaches and honey), though I don't think you can really call it a cheesecake. Many of the recipes are riffs on whipping cream and using it with fruit, and many others are riffs on chocolate cake. Others are originally straight out of those free cookbook pamphlets Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk used to give out (though the editors found them on blogs, Eagle made all of those recipes up in the 1970's and 80's to promote sweetened condensed milk and my own mom did bake a couple of their recipes often).

There is a comical meme illustration from the internet after every recipe (such as jokes about women loving chocolate, Mexican folks calling limes lemons and cupcakes not asking questions).

There is nothing in the description about why this cookbook was made. I might be more forgiving of stealing other people's recipes and photos if they said that they got permission from the original authors and if this was some sort of fundraiser to save a struggling organization or something (Cake Chatters is apparently a for-profit site for wedding bakers, though many of the pages don't work and the forums don't seem to have been visited for years). But charging $2 for an ebook entirely made up of other people's work that is easily found online does not strike me as a good buy. Sorry, I cannot recommend it.

I read a digital version of this book for review.

I'm not sure how old the authors of this collection are, but their graphic designer chose to use a drawing of a maid from Victorian times, and as far as I know, no one has a grandmother from that era. Heck, I'm in my 60s, and my grandmother was born in the Edwardian era. But I degress.

The point of this collection is that these are all made from scratch. Yes, right, and for the most part they all are. You still may not have the ingredients, and have to go out and buy them, but made from scratch, and then they put in this recipe, and I had to stop myself.

The one that stopπed me was the French-Tosted Angel Food Cake. The first ingredient is "7 inch angel-food cake" No, just no. That is not making this from scratch if you need a ready-made cake. Sigh.

Other faults I found were minor. I don't expect anyone to make their own condensed milk, nor their own corn flakes, or even graham crackers. Still, if you list them as ingredients you shouldn't boast that everything in here is from scratch. You are not making your own graham crackers.

Sorry for being so picky, but they were picky first. :)

But, other than those minor things, most of these recipes do probably take about 30 minutes to make, if you don't have to go out and shop for the ingredients first, which would add time to the whole process. Also, if you go with canned sweet potatoes and pumpkins.

So, other than the misleading title, nice very sweet desserts. I like the photos of each dessert, and the cute jokes are, well cute. Be warned that most of these have chocolate in them.


Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

If you have avoided baking from scratch because it took too long, or if you bake often but are looking for quick from scratch desserts, this little cookbook is perfect. The recipes come from many different sources and include old favorites such as macaroons, plus new desserts,an unbeluievably simple chocolate mousse, that are sure to become standards.

A charming feature is hat these reciopes are "crowd-tested" and comments, including great variations, arei included. Therre are even keto anf vegan recipes for those on special diets.

You'll turn to this book again anf again.

This delightful anthology is packed with delicious recipes from such varied sources as Better Homes and Gardens, Taste of Home and carribeangreenliving.com. The recipes are easy to make from scratch, even for an elementary baker like me, and each recipe comes with a photo, which I appreciate. Add in the helpful hints and great cooking quotes sprinkled throughout the book, and you have a cookbook that’s a definite keeper. My personal favorite quote, “I bake because punching people is frowned upon.” The French Toasted Angel Food Cake and No-Bake Lemon Cream Pie are definite winners, as are the Brown Butter Espresso Toffee Brownies and the Coca-Cola Cake, and…well, you get the picture.

This is the first entry in the Dough Puncher’s e-book series. And I can’t wait to see what else they have in store.

I received a free e-copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This is a collection of recipes from various sources with notes and steps that break down the process into easy to follow recipes. I have one dessert I am very good at making and that is where my baking prowess ends. About half of these looked like something even I could handle, so I consider that doing the near-impossible with recipe writing. The rest of them also look delicious!