Small Batch Baking: Cookbooks & Recipes

The Complete Book of Year-Round Small-Batch Preserving: Over 300 Delicious Recipes

Small Batch Baking, by Debby Maugans Nakos. A batch of Cream-Filled Chocolate Cookies--that yields a half-dozen. A Coconut Layer Cake, just for two. Individual servings of Cinnamon French Toast Pudding or Southern Peach Cobbler with Bourbon Cream. It's all the bewitching pleasure of home-baked, but--finally--for just one or two.

Cooking for Two: 120 Recipes for Every Day and Those Special Nights (Hardcover), by Bruce Weinstein, Mark Scarbrough. The dessert chapters are filled with cookies, puddings, and cakes, all designed for two servings. Small-batch baking requires strict attention to detail. A regular egg can be too big for a small batch of six cookies, so they suggest quail eggs or the easy-to-find pasteurized egg substitutes, which you can measure out in tablespoons.

Quail eggs? When's the last time you saw quail eggs at the store? Just use powdered egg whites, or small eggs. If the recipes won't work unless you use a quail egg, then I'm going to have egg on my face for recommending this book!

Healthy Cooking for Two (or Just You) : Low-Fat Recipes with Half the Fuss and Double the Taste (Paperback)

Win Her With Dinner (Hardcover), by Alex Hilebronner, Tom Greenwood, Doug Veith

Little Cakes : Classic Recipes for any Occasion (Hardcover), by SUSAN WAGGONER, SUJEAN BRUNO

The Cake Club : Delicious Desserts and Stories from a Southern Childhood (Paperback), by Susie Quick

Big Fat Cookies (Paperback), by Elinor Klivans

Desserts That Have Killed Better Men Than Me (Hardcover), by Jeremy Jackson

The Brownie Experience: ... A Cookbook for Brownie-Lovers : Recipes, Illustrations, Calligraphy, and Hand-Lettering (Paperback), by Lisa Tanner

Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing (Hardcover), by Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-Rawi, Monique Arav (Translator) -- Oops! How'd this get in here? ;-)

Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts (Paperback), by who else? Maida Heatter. Her books are the best.

The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook: More Than 80 Recipes for Irresistible, Old-Fashioned Treats (Hardcover), by Jennifer Appel

Sugarbakers Cookie Cutter Cookbook (Hardcover), by Diana Collingwood Butts, Carol V. Wright

Perfect Cakes (Hardcover), by Nick Malgieri

101 Fabulous Dairy-Free Desserts Everyone Will Love: For the Lactose Intolerant, the Dairy-Allergic, and Their Friends and Families (Paperback), by Annette Pia Hall

101 Low-Carb & Sugarfree Dessert Recipes (Paperback), by April S. Fields

Low-Carb Sweets: And the Art of Self-Indulgence (Paperback), by Sharon Allbright

Gale Gand's Just a Bite : 125 Luscious Little Desserts (Hardcover), by GALE GAND

Dessert Circus : Extraordinary Desserts You Can Make At Home (Pbs Series) (Hardcover), by Jacques Torres

American Heart Association Low-Fat & Luscious Desserts : Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Other Temptations (Hardcover), by American Heart Association

500 Low-Carb Recipes: 500 Recipes from Snacks to Dessert, That the Whole Family Will Love (Paperback), by Dana Carpender

Small Baking Pans for Small Batch Baking

Kaiser Bakeware offers several so called "kids" bake sets, although I recently purchased small springform pans and they weren't labeled as being for kids, so I don't see what's different about them. Remember, anything small will work, you don't have to buy special pans, but if you want to start cooking in small batches often, then it would be smart to get the "real thing."

Country Kitchen has some fun mini cake pans

Cooks Dream, Small Cake Pans