Cooking with Coffee: Brewing Up Sweet and Savory Everyday Dishes Hardcover – November 3, 2015

This is one of my favorite cookbooks I own. I haven't had the chance to make a whole lot of things from it yet, but what I've made so far has been spectacular. Here's what I've made so far:Homemade Irish Cream: I think this is one of my favorite drinks I've made in my life, and I have now made this recipe three or four times. My boyfriend thought it was too thick, but whatever. You do need to make sure you can stir it thoroughly because it's not so great when you have little chunks of the dry ingredients that didn't get mixed properly. I tried shaking it in a bottle rather than stirring it in a pitcher and that didn't work so well.Mocha icing: It's great but you do want to make sure you don't keep the food topped with it out of the fridge too long.Sweet and Spicy Beef: It's a wonderfully interesting combination of flavors. The first time I made it, it was inedibly spicy, but I have a low spice tolerance. The second time I made it I used half the amount of cracked red pepper and put a shaker of cracked red pepper for people to use if they wanted more spice and that worked out great.Coffee Cocoa Crinkle Cookies: I took these to a potluck and they were very popular. They have a really cool chewy texture. They just happen to be gluten and lactose free without any sacrifices, so that's a plus for some people.Brown Butter Mocha Crisp Bars: These are so wonderful. I've always loved rice krispie treats. These have a bit more of a serious taste to them. You get all the light crunchy sweetness of rice krispie treats but there's the added indulgent taste like dark chocolate.Coffee Granita: Easy to make and I honestly didn't expect the coffee and orange combination to be as good as it was. I topped it with whipped cream and a sprinkle of nutmeg.No-bake Irish Cream Mousse Pie: I will definitely be making this again. Even if you don't like the whole pie, I'm sure just the recipe for the crust could be useful for other purposes.I do wish the savory section had more vegetarian dishes, but maybe there just aren't any vegetarian-type main courses that would taste good with coffee.

I got this book as a replacement for a "cooking with coffee" book I misplaced long ago. It was the only one I found with a variety of recipes using coffee in main dishes as well as sweets & beverages. Most of the other "coffee cookbooks" seemed to concentrate on making coffee drinks & I needed an actual cookbook. I probably won't make most of the main dishes, as I'm vegetarian, but am looking forward to trying the others.

In our current world of being able to look up any recipe in seconds on your smartphone, I very rarely buy cookbooks anymore. This is a truly awesome cookbook. Coffee is an item consumed daily by myself and most other people, but this book is well-written and has many different , easy to follow recipes, both sweet and savory, and provides a lot of information that was new and interesting about this well-known product. I made the homemade Kahlua and salted dark chocolate coffee bark as Christmas gifts for co-workers and they were a HUGE hit (as well as very easy to make!) I also love the mocha chip baked oatmeal. I am looking forward to trying more of the recipes.

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I gave Brandi's book to coffee-loving friends for Christmas. Of course I kept one for myself! I love to bake, so I've made several of the recipes, and they've all been delicious. I'm a decaf person and grind my own espresso powder. Varying the coffee flavor gives you a whole new treat. Try the biscotti or scones first. You won't be disappointed !

I received my book today and am SO excited to start making some of these recipes. And although the Salted Toffee Ricotta Toast is on the menu tomorrow morning, I couldn't resist making a very quick Coffee Caramel sauce to put on my scoop of ice cream tonight. A-MAZ-ING! The coffee added a depth to my lovely caramel craving!

For a used book it looked new. I gave it as a gift the recipient loved it.

Love it! Not only does the book have both savory and sweet recipes using coffe there is also excellent narrative regarding coffee and its history.

Brilliant