Microwave Baking Desserts Author:Barbara Methven and Sylvia Ogren Microwave Cooking Library. — In the early days of microwave cooking, most cookbooks gave scant attention to the subject of baking. A few cakes, cheifly from mixes, were included for their speed and convienence, but it was assumed that readers would do most of their baking in a conventional oven. Since then, we've discovered that microwave oven pr... more »oduces excellent pastry and superlative cakes. It can actually bake 3 dozen individual cookies in the time it take to preheat a conventional oven. Best of all, microwave bread baking, particularly yeast breads, has come of age. This book will help you develop your baking skills. Some of the recipes are microwave versions of old favorites; other are new, created to make the most of your microwave oven. All the recipes were tested in every major brand of microwave oven. In your oven, they'll produce high quality, easy-to-microwave breads and desserts.« less