Product Description
In our hurried world, pie baking seems hopelessly time consuming and old fashioned. That's why homemade pies and other sweet treats have become both a rarity and a cause for celebration. Now you can celebrate as much as you want with Wanda's Pie in the Sky. Based on recipes from Wanda's Pie in the Sky, the renowned Toronto bakery, this cookbook features every kind of pie imaginable as well as cakes, cookies and squares. With tips for the perfect pie crust, this cookbook will have you eschewing the frozen pastry section in your grocery store and up to your elbows in flour in no time!
Awards
- Cuisine Canada:
2003 - English language Cookbook
Wanda's Pie in the Sky (Silver Medal)
About the Author
Wanda Beaver's love of baking began at an early age. She baked her first pie when she was nine using cherries picked from her family's half-acre fruit-filled paradise. Since that first sour cherry pie, which is still her favorite, she hasn't looked back.
Born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario, in the heart of Canada's prime fruit-growing area, she pushed her passion for baking aside in favor of more "serious" career aspirations. During her fourth year at the Ontario College of Art, a freshly baked pie for a friend led to her first commercial account. By graduation, she was delivering so many pies, she put her art career on hold (temporarily, she thought) to open a small bakery.
Fifteen years later, Wanda has 20 employees, two retail locations, and more than enough customers to keep her busy baking pies, cookies, cakes, and other sweets.