How To Buy The Book
Rediscover the joy of cooking simple food using everyday ingredients and pantry staples.
My new cookbook, Simple Pleasures (published by DK | Penguin Random House) is out now and available to buy everywhere in the world.
With easy recipes and time-saving techniques for your favorite pastries, breads, cakes, cookies, pizza, pasta, and more, you’re sure to find something to satisfy your sweet tooth—and your carb cravings!
Where to buy in the USA
Where to buy in Canada
Where to buy in Australia
Where to buy in the UK
Everywhere Else In The World
Please note: The book is available everywhere in the world where you buy your books. That’s places like your local Amazon, or in person at your local book store (ask for: Simple Pleasures by Emma Fontanella—the ISBN is 0744066190).
The eBook Version
The eBook version is available to buy everywhere in the world for Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play Books, the Barnes & Noble NOOK app, and Kobo.
What’s in the book
Rediscover the joy of cooking simple food using everyday ingredients and pantry staples.
With easy recipes and time-saving techniques for your favorite pastries, breads, cakes, cookies, pizza, pasta, and more, you’ll find something to satisfy your sweet tooth—or your carb cravings!
Whether you’re a beginner cook or you have twenty years experience, a section on foundational techniques has something for everyone. It provides detailed instruction on working with yeast-raised doughs, preparing pasta, making and decorating cakes, and more.
Simple Pleasures is more than a collection of recipes. It aims to give you the knowledge and skills to become a better home cook and baker while having fun in the kitchen. It includes:
Over 100 recipes for breakfasts, breads, pastries, pizza and pasta dinners, holiday baking, showstopper celebration cakes, and more. Every recipe has step-by-step instructions and beautiful photos so you can see exactly what you’re aiming for
Family favorites such as authentic Italian lasagna, one-pot mac and cheese, the fluffiest pancakes, French toast, apple pie, brownies, loaf cakes, and amazing ideas for birthday cakes
Superfast snacks for one or two that cook in a minute whenever a craving hits, such as microwave mug treats and snack pizza
Make ahead and freeze Lots of us have busy lives so I give you options for making dishes ahead of time, such as grab-and-go breakfasts and overnight doughs. I also show you the best ways to freeze dishes and how to defrost/reheat them
Time-saving techniques and pastry chef shortcuts so you can get more done in less time, achieving amazing results with a fraction of the effort of traditional methods
Gourmet recreations of nostalgic childhood favorites such as Instant Frozen Yogurt, Pizza Rolls, Peanut Butter Cups, Oreos, and Lofthouse Sugar Cookies
Ideas for variations that will keep your favorite recipes fresh and inspire your own creativity so you’ll want to make them again and again
Every recipe in cups and grams so whether you measure ingredients by volume or weight, I’ve got you covered
Ingredient substitutions All the recipes in the book use everyday ingredients, but we’ve all found ourselves out of something like butter or milk, just when we need it. A section on substitutions shows you how to cook and bake with what you have
