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Since when did every cookie on the plate have to be just like the next? Or each layer of cake exactly the same height? Each piecrust an impeccable work of art and encircled by stunningly perfect pastry leaves? To the uninitiated, all that fastidious, spotless baking is intimidating, not to mention exhausting. The Messy Baker celebrates baking as it happens in the real world--sweet, messy, fun, not always gorgeous, but a way to show love. Which doesnt make it any less delicious to the contrary, Charmian Christies flavor combinations rise far above the ordinary. Why have a raspberry galette when you can enjoy a raspberry-rhubarb galette with drippy, unctuous walnut frangipane? Or how about a Brie and walnut whiskey tart? Its all yours without the rigid perfectionism or complicated instructions of other gourmet cookbooks.



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Charmian Christie

Charmian Christie is a food writer, recipe developer, and cookbook author. The voice behind the blog, TheMessyBaker.com, she shares recipes, reviews, tips and tales of culinary woe. Eager to include everyone and waste nothing, she creates delicious, approachable recipes requiring standard kitchen equipment. Knowing mistakes happen to the best of us, she developed a smart phone app, Kitchen Disasters & Fixes, to get homecooks out of any culinary corner.



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