Enjoyed trying out different recipe from this book. However, some of them I already knew about from different blog posts.

I want to thank Netgalley and the author's for gifting me the ebook. I loved this ebook! The desserts sound amazing and was very informative. I loved the cover of the book also.

I loved this cookbook! The dessert recipes come from people who have actually made them, and they’re sourced from a variety of places, like old cookbooks, magazines, and newspaper articles. All the recipes have a twist that makes them different from similar desserts. It’s fun to read as well as an interesting place to find recipes!

My favorites so far are: Lunch Lady Brownies, Stovetop Rice Custard from the 1920’s, Apple Brown Betty, Typsy Laird Scottish Trifle, and Strawberry Sponge Pie. The last one I’ve never heard of! Great cookbook, 5 stars.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

A fun collection of vintage recipes, updated to make them accessible to today's cooks.
Quite a tempting collection.

Some nice recipes here but some of them seemed overly sweet and not especially appealing to me. I probably would have preferred just to have the vintage recipes reproduced.

I loved the recipes in this book! I tried quite a few of them and they turned out so well and were very delicious! I'm so glad I picked this book up! It's one of my favorites now!

This cookbook is just delightful. I love when I come across older cookbooks from church groups or school pta's. Those are the best recipes. The Vintage Baker is this and so much better. I love the notes and how easy the recipes are explained. This is definitely a cookbook I will use again and again. Thank you for the opportunity to preview such a great cookbook.

Fun recipes that I would try. I did notice that some recipes were from blogs I follow and were not given credit.

I was looking forward to reading this book and although I liked it I did not find the twists to be very unusual at all. The recipes were well written and the history was interesting.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an advance copy of this title in exchange for an unbiased review.

The recipes are nice and I enjoyed reading about the vintage recipes. The photos don't look profession and there are some memes between pages that makes it funny but doesn't look nice. I got a digital copy and it was a bit hard to read. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

Not at all what I expected - just a cookery book with older recipes. I have evidently reached that golden age of being old - I knew and have made most these recipes. Nice, perhaps for a younger person.

As what I would consider to be an experienced baker and definitely from raw ingredients I thought this sounded an interesting collection to read. I was looking forward to the twists. Pity. Other than the ginger in, was it lemon meringue pie, the twists were few and hardly relevant - making something square where it was usually round, there's a Lord Baltimore cake to go with the Lady Baltimore cake but no details. Ratafia biscuits no longer available - what rubbish.. A lot of recipes deal with sponge cakes of various slightly different sorts - repetitive even if simply written instructions. Basically a selection of recipes gathered from the web, presumably their CakeChatter website? Two things in its favour: 1) that it does use basic ingredients but there are plenty of better books, web recipres out there and without the asides and memes. 2) the instructions are really simple. Sorry. Thanks to NetGalley and the Editors of CakeChatter for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

When you have one grandmother from New Hampshire via Canada another from Louisiana and grandfather from Minnesota and another grandfather from Arkansas, you tend to get a lot of family recipes handed down from all over the country. Therefore I wasnt surprised that as I was turning the pages there were recipes from my family! The only differences were the twists, that Cakechatter had added.

These are classic recipes that you'll use all throughout the year. Especially during the holidays, these are the recipes that you'll pull back out again and again. I love how they put a bit of History with each recipe, so that you can see how they became popular. The twist and notes are what set apart new bakers and season bakers, and new bakers will greatly appreciate them.

This is a lovely book to give as a hostess present, as a wedding gift with a basket of supplies, or for the co-ed that's moving far from home but may want to bake family recipes. I also highly recommend checking out Cakechatter's Facebook page for more recipes and ideas.

At face value, it's an okay cookbook. Just an okay one as far as recipes and food photos go. I love the concept, but the execution could have been better. It felt a little all over the place in terms of what it was going for. Vintage recipes with a modern twist! Throw a meme in after every recipe! So modern! That bit got old pretty quickly. The recipes themselves were pretty good, but could have used another skim. There were some recipes with ingredients listed that never made an appearance in the directions. There were others where the "twist" wasn't really...twisty. It's an okay cookbook with a really neat concept behind it, but it could've used a little more work. Granted, I do understand that you're working with vintage recipes, which by nature are more pared-down than what we work with now, but I thought that was the whole point of the twist to begin with. Maybe this one just wasn't for me, but I would love to see the editors revisit this one because the inspiration behind it is really neat.

An ebook of vintage recipes for cakes, pies, cookies, and candy. The recipes have been crowd-tested and often have comments from the testers. The book has a nice, if not unusual, assortment of recipes.

I'm finding this one hard to connect with, the layout is awful, there's no flow at all and it's just a big mess of photos, links and text. I've never seen a book include memes on every other page. The recipes are nothing special and the big "twist" to each is just something in the recipe or about it such as, the TWIST: this is the real deal, it's German!

I was expecting they found a way to make it modern and add something to the recipe.

Honestly I'm really just a bit confused on this one.

i really enjoyed this cookbook, I liked the use of vintage recipes and add a modern twist on them. I look forward to making them someday as I really enjoyed going through this book.

I’ve been in an historical mood with food for awhile, so this book called to me. It’s filled with lots of great recipes, but I’m wondering what it says about me that I’ve made all but four of these before I ever picked up the book. Different versions of the recipes, but my grandmothers both lived through the depression and taught me to cook many of their recipes.

One of the things I like about this book are the notes from others who have made the recipes. Tweaks they have made, how ti turned out, etc. Always nice to have notes and feedback from others. I’m looking forward to trying out the recipes I haven’t made yet. I may even try some tweaks to the others, but Grammy and Grandma’s versions are home runs too.

The recipes in this sounded absolutely delicious, and I liked the twists thrown in. I also appreciated the comments by other folk, which included some tips and suggestions. I think I would have liked more comments like that one as opposed to comments that just talked about how delicious everything was. I think if you prepared these recipes, you'd be quite ready for a baking competition.

I also totally could have gone without the memes thrown in. Minion memes have no place in a cookbook, and they made it feel lower quality.

Again, I'm astounded that this publisher continues to make money off of these "books" and that people rate them highly. It's a person/group who lifts recipes and their photos from people's blogs and websites, puts them in a small collection, and then sells them as ebooks. As far as I can tell, they get no permission from any of the people they steal the recipes and photos from and they offer them no share of the royalties. It's 30 recipes from the internet, that other people designed (in some cases, reworked from vintage recipes), photographed and posted to their own sites. Why is this legal (or moral)? I'm pretty sure it isn't, but perhaps the people she steals from aren't aware they're in her collections. This time she took the time to "thank" them in the end with a list of all the websites she copied them from, but there's still no sign that these people actually gave permission or know that their recipes are collected here.

I'm pretty sure there's nobody over the age of 12 who doesn't know at this point that you can't legally use people's photographs in your own books or websites without permission, right? Recipes are more iffy since you can slightly change them and you can't really copyright recipes, but still.... I just don't get why nobody else has issues with this series.

Again, the author(s?) give no indication that the money supports any cause or legitimate site, or that they have legally acquired these recipes and photographs. Again, they're interspersed with random memes and quote boxes lifted off the internet (still watermarked).

This isn't a book or a series I can recommend.

I read a digital ARC of this book for review.