Schmecks Desserts

From light, healthy fruit dishes to custards, puddings & mousses. Edna Staebler's delightful little books are packed with schmecksy (tasty, as her Mennonite neighbors say) food & entertaining tales.

Simple Desserts

Prize-winning baker shares secrets for home-cooked desserts to put together in minutes with a minimum of effort.

Woman's Day Desserts

300+ delicious desserts: easy, quick, low-fat, old-fashioned, holiday, even silly cakes. Nutrition info. Color photos. 350 pgs. Hard (List 25.95)

Le Cordon Bleu: Desserts

Indulge in the delights of luscious fruits, soufflés and sorbets, and let a classic vanilla ice cream take you back the old days. From refreshing and light summer desserts to rich puddings, this collection of recipes is full of sweet inspiration. Includes recipes for such mouth-watering delights as Spiced poached pears with orange butter, Rhubarb and almond tart, Iced raspberry souffle, and Burgundy granita....

Favorite Old-Fashioned Desserts

Savor the homemade, fresh-from-the-kitchen flavor of America's most beloved treats.

1,001 Low-Fat Desserts

With this book, it's easy to make dreamy frosted cakes, deep-dish pies, tangy tarts, heavenly cream puffs, sugary cobblers, crunchy crisps, fluffy cheesecakes, custards and souffles. Many favorite recipes are here, plus lots of new ones to try, including: Sour Cream Chocolate Layer Cake, Honey-Walnut Pumpkin Pie, Macadamia Nut Cheesecake, Coeur a la Creme, Baklava, Viennese Apple Strudel, Mango Cobbler and Key Lime Squares. There's even a chapter of quick and easy desserts and another of desserts made with artificial sweeteners instead of sugar.

How to Make Holiday Desserts

One of a unique collection of seventeen beautifully hardbound, single-topic cookbooks from the publisher of Cook's Illustrated, the magazine with a reputation for fanatical kitchen testing of recipes, ingredients, equipment and culinary techniques. In each slim volume, months of testing are pared down into simple advice on which methods work best to cook the foods everyone loves most. In this volume: Impress your guests with foolproof recipes for such festive desserts as plum pudding, truffles, chocolate souffle, creme brulee, yule log, and trifle.

Joie Warner's Apple Desserts

Luscious amd easy recipes for America's favorite fruit raise comfort food to great new contemporary heights.

Desserts, The Best of Martha Stewart Living

From wonderful classic cakes to inspiring confections of seasonal fruit, these homemade desserts make the most delicious impressions at every occasion--a birthday or wedding, an elegant holiday dinner or casual summer luncheon, a country picnic or everyday meal. Easy-to-follow recipes guide you each step of the way, and color photographs of all the desserts offer beautiful, creative serving ideas.

Virtuous Desserts

175 recipes, all with real food value (not empty calories), naturally sweetened with fruits & juices.

Modernist View of Plated Desserts

Copious detail on techniques and garnishes in 50 desserts from 25 top pastry chefs.

Tropical Desserts

SALE! Dessert chef at Charlie Trotter's & the Coyote Cafe offers outstanding recipes using deliciously fresh tropical fruits, nuts & spices in desserts cold & warm, pastries, breads, cookies & candies.

Simply Sensational Desserts

A culinary Shangri-la...Payard's desserts destroy any hope of rational appraisal. They are unbelievable, fabulous, gorgeous, luscious, amazing, fun, and worth skipping all the meat and potatoes for. New York Magazine Sharing his passion for pastry, third generation Patissier Francois Payard now reveals how to make the dazzling cookies, cakes, and tarts that have earned accolades for his Payard Patisserie and Bistro. Providing fantastic, tantalizing results without exotic ingredients or hours of preparation, Simply Sensational Desserts features the most popular Payard desserts, including Hedgehog Cake, Rhubarb-Lemongrass Soup, the tartest Lemon Tart, and much more. Offering maximum flavor with minimal effort, Simply Sensational Desserts brims with inspiring descriptions and jargon-free, step-by-step instructions. Tantalizing full-color photography completes the temptation as readers discover how to create knockout dishes that please the eye as well as the palate. With a chapter devoted entirely to chocolate cakes, as well as one on dessert soups - each one paired with a scoop of the appropriate ice cream or sorbet - grand finales are now as easy as pie. Francois Payard has won numerous national awards, including the 1995 James Beard Award for Pastry Chef of the Year. He was also named Pastry Chef of the Year in 1998 by Bon Appetit. A native of Nice, he lives in New York City.

300 Teatime Treats, Cakes, Sweets and Desserts

Here is an utterly irresistible collection of over 300 mouth-watering teatime treats, cakes, bakes and desserts: traditional iced sponges, tempting tarts and pastries, luscious fruit-filled creations, refreshing iced delights, delicious guilt-free sweets, wickedly indulgent puddings and divine chocolate treats. Within these pages there is a cake, bake, bun or pudding for every season and for every occasion, from puddings for relaxed mid-week suppers or formal dinner party desserts, and from winter fireside bakes to sweet treats for al fresco summer evenings. You will find simple but sophisticated recipes for afternoon tea, colourful and lively ideas for a children's birthday tea, and delicously moreish suggestions for family get-togethers. Enjoy scrumptious Honey Spice Cake or Frosted Chocolate Fudge Cake; irresistible cookies like Cherry Munchies, Coffee Sponge Drops and Mini Florentines; pies and tarts such as French Apple Tart and Chocolate Pine Nut Tart; and a whole array of decorative novelty cakes for children's birthdays and special themed celebrations. A full practical introduction describes all the essential skills and techniques you need, such as pastry-making, bread yeast preparations, and tips for successful baking and decorating. Over 900 helpful step-by step photographs and clear instructions ensure the recipes are foolproof and easy to follow, and every recipe includes a nutritional breakdown. There is even a special low-fat section offering fabulous teatime sensations for the health-concious cook. Everyone enjoys home-baked cakes and home-made desserts - and with this ultimate compendium you will never be short of culinary inspiration.

How to Make Simple Fruit Desserts

One of a unique collection of seventeen beautifully hardbound, single-topic cookbooks from the publisher of Cook's Illustrated, the magazine with a reputation for fanatical kitchen testing of recipes, ingredients, equipment and culinary techniques. In each slim volume, months of testing are pared down into simple advice on which methods work best to cook the foods everyone loves most. In this volume: You can make perfect fruit crisp, cobbler, or shortcake - no more tough crusts, soggy toppings or runny fillings.