Awards:
Dean was the joint recipient of a prestigious "gold
ladle" (known as a Jacob’s Creek World
Food Media Award) for his first book ‘The
New Zealand Baker - secrets and recipes from the professionals’ in
2001.
The New Zealand Baker also won 'best
photography award' at the World Cook Book Awards in
Perigueux, France, 2000.
Dean's second book, Baker —the best of international
baking from Australia & New Zealand won the Best
Bread Book award in English at the Gourmand World Cookbook
Awards 2001.
In 2005, Dean's work was recognised with the Wolf Blass Wines World
Food Media Award – Golden Ladle for the Best Soft
Cover Recipe Book (RRP under US$25) 2005 for his third book ‘Taste – baking
with flavour’.
In 2010, Dean's fourth book Global Baker - Dean Brettschneider was
nominated for the Best Soft Cover Recipe Book at the 2010 Le
Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards.
These awards were judged by peers, food writers from around the world,
so they are particularly highly valued. |
The New Zealand Baker
- secrets and recipes from the professionals
2000
The New Zealand Baker - secrets and recipes
from the professionals is a response
to the interest of both home cooks and chef bakers who
want to extend their baking skills and learn from the experts.
This comprehensive book includes technical detail and advice plus favourite
recipes from bakeries, restaurants and delis. This wonderful collection
includes new and innovative, as well as traditional styles of baking – everything
from leaven bread to croissants or honey and almond tart. The bakery section
presents recipes from about 20 of New Zealand's best bakeries.
 Details,
reviews & awards. |
Baker - the best of
international baking from Australia and New Zealand
2001
Baker —the best of international baking from Australia & New
Zealand won the Best Bread Book award in English
at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2001.
This book presents everything the home baker, professional baker or chef
needs to know about breads, cakes and pastries.
Details,
reviews & awards. |
Taste - baking with
flavour
Released April 2005
Worldwide, bakers are taking inspiration from the alluring new
flavours they encounter on their travels. In Taste - Baking with Flavour,
award-winning authors Dean Brettschneider and Lauraine Jacobs offer more
than 50 recipes.
Clearly set out, featuring 'Keys to Success' and Aaron McLean's outstanding
photographs, this exciting new collection is for serious bakers and novice
cooks alike.
Details,
reviews & awards. |
Global Baker - Dean
Brettschneider
Released October 2007.
A book of inspirational recipes with international influences
- bread, pastries, cakes and desserts.
In this, his fourth book, Dean shares recipes for bread, pastries, cakes
and desserts that reflect his broad international experience. There are
also extensive instructions on techniques and ingredients, and decoration
tips.
Details,
reviews & awards. |
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Baking
Books
Dean Brettschneider has
written or contributed to nine best-selling and
highly praised books.
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New Zealand's Hottest
Home Baker, with Dean Brettschneider
Released: March 2011
 Author:
Dean Brettschneider
RRP $35.00
Paperback, Penguin
Following on from the top-rating and highly successful television programme,
and coinciding with the launch of the second series on TV3, comes the book
of the series, New Zealand’s Hottest Home Baker, with
Dean Brettschneider.
Global Baker and series judge, Dean Brettschneider, shares
his golden rules of baking to bring the home baker a range of accessible
and inspirational recipes from the eight contestants featured in the first
series, and inspire them in their own kitchens.
The book captures all the top recipes from the show, including biscuits,
slices, breads, scones, cakes and cupcakes, muffins, savoury and sweet
pies, tarts and desserts. Filled with tips and tricks from Dean throughout
the book, the reader will be able to learn how to make professional looking
baked goods.
Packed with beautiful food photography and bustling with
behind-the-scenes action shots from the show, this is the perfect
book for any aspiring home baker. |
The Cook & The Baker
Released: 1 October 2010
 Authors:
Dean Brettschneider & Mark McDonough
RRP: $45.00
Imprint: Random House New Zealand
From a dedicated cook and an international baker comes a stunning
collection of recipes highlighting their shared passion.
Stylish, gutsy food from Global Baker Dean Brettschneider (judge of Nestlé New
Zealand's Hottest Home Baker), and Mark McDonough of Newmarket's highly
successful Zarbo Deli and Café. Together they have assembled
this collection of delicious recipes for the home chef – breads, entrées,
mains, desserts, cakes, cookies and pastries. Each recipe is crammed full
of flavour and colour from fabulous fresh ingredients, herbs and spices.
Launched together with the TV programme of the same name, showing on NZ's
Food TV, from October 3, 2010.
Details. |
A Treasury of New
Zealand Baking
Released: 2 October 2009
 Edited
by Lauraine Jacobs
Photography by Aaron McLean
RRP: NZ$55.00
All royalties go the Breast Cancer Foundation of New Zealand.
Random House NZ
Over 100 recipes from New Zealand’s leading food writers
and chefs, baked by Dean Brettschneider, photographed by Aaron McLean.
A treasure trove of cakes, slices, loaves, scones, tarts and muffins from
our best-loved foodwriters and chefs. Infused with love and a generosity
of spirit, A Treasury of New Zealand Baking is destined to become
a comforting kitchen companion to be treasured and passed down through
the generations.
Available at bookstores and supermarkets.
Details. |
The Menu
Published October 2008.
An inspiring collection of 15 five-course menus, co-authored
by celebrated chef David Laris and master baker and pâtissier Dean
Brettschneider.
From the breads at the start of a meal, to the starters, mains, desserts
and petit fours, these recipes will inspire and invigorate the home cook
and host.
Details & reviews.
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