I love baking for the holidays. The Festive Holiday Baking iPhone app (99 cents) helps ease the process. Rather than perusing fifteen different baking books and a pile of recipe cards, most of which are crusted with sugar, flour and drips of vanilla, I can choose from 35 different recipes offered in this iPhone app.
Each recipe in Festive Holiday Baking features a photograph of the dessert, and can be chosen in a variety of ways. Either choose from a list, page through the recipes with a swipe on the screen, or even shake your iPhone to be shown a random recipe.
Every one of the 35 included recipes requires just eight ingredients or less, and the Festive Holiday Baking iPhone app contains classic cookies and bars, as well as fancier desserts like rich chocolate truffles.
Also included are volume and weight conversion tables, so those of you with whom the whole metric thing caught on (like, everyone in Europe) can make these cookies and bars without too much thinking.
While I’m certainly not going to get rid of my treasured baking cookbooks and family recipe cards, Festive Holiday Baking will certainly make it easier for me to make a quick choice and whip up something tasty to take along to a holiday party.
Although I have a feeling I’m going to be wiping sugar and flour and drops of vanilla off my iPhone screen.
