Margaret Palca Bakes Cookbook

Currently located on Columbia Street in Brooklyn, Margaret Palca Bakes has been supplying baked goods to the New York City community for more than thirty years. In this beautiful and lavishly illustrated cookbook, The Margaret Palca Bakes Cookbook, Margaret Palca shares practical baking tips and step-by-step techniques to make eighty of her bakery’s most popular recipes. Butter, eggs, and sugar (she accepts no substitutes) help make her delicious recipes foolproof. Recipes include Margaret’s famous rugelach, blueberry muffins, incredible carrot cake, and much more!

Margaret Palca is the owner of Brooklyn-based café and wholesale bakery business Margaret Palca Bakes. She was born and raised in New York City and received a degree in art history from Barnard College before realizing the only occupation that made her truly happy was baking. After several apprenticeships, she opened her own bakery in 1985. Margaret and her husband continue to own and operate Margaret Palca Bakes, delivering fresh baked goods to Manhattan on a daily basis. Margaret resides in Brooklyn, New York.