Exciting and Unique Dessert Recipes Are In These Cookbooks

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Fruit Dessert : Williams-Sonoma Collection

Williams-Sonoma knows how to make dessert, and with this addition to the successful series, readers will find tantalizing recipes for everything fruit-inspired. This volume features award-winning recipes, sumptuous color photographs, and plenty of tips and techniques to make dessert-making an even sweeter experience. Whether looking for Quick and Simple Melon Balls and Grilled Peach Melba or more complicated delicacies for special occasions, like Plum Pavlova and Apple-Brandy Crepes, readers will find Fruit Dessert to be the ultimate cookbook for their collection.

Doughmakers Cookbook

New in paperback! The founders of Doughmakers Gourmet Bakeware share over 100 of their most delicious recipes for baked goods, tell their success story, and provide tips on how to start a business from the heart. Real-life sisters and doyennes of the kitchen Bette La Plante and Diane Cuvelier, and the rest of the Doughmakers family, are ready to share recipes for the most delicious baked goods ever! Straight from their own kitchen, and the kitchens of satisfied customers who use their pie and pizza pans, cookie sheets, and other gourmet baking products, the Doughmakers will provide over 100 recipes full of creativity and tender loving care. These delicious treats include: Swedish Red Lips, Oatmeal Carmelita bar cookies, Winter Wonderland Bars, Soft Pretzels, Grandma Minnie's Spice Cake, Hot Chocolate Earthquakes, and Grilled Chicken & Sun-dried Tomato Pizza. Along with baking, the Doughmakers are known for business savvy. Having started the company from their garage and grown it through their tireless efforts so that they now sell to over 2,000 gourmet stores in North America, Bette and Diane are poised to share tips with women of middle age--or any age--on how they too can start a successful business with a healthy helping of love. The inspiring story of how a business brought a family together will complement the recipes, and every reader--whether cook, aspiring entrepreneur, loving mom, or all of the above--will benefit from the delicious fruits of the Doughmakers' book.

Pie Pie Pie : Easy Homemade Favorites

Apple or lime, caramel custard or butter brickle banana cream--nothing warms a house faster than the aroma of a freshly baked pie. And with the voice of an old friend, author John Phillip Carroll teaches foolproof methods for making delicious down-home favorites. Start with the easiest, tastiest, flakiest crust around, and you'll soon find that pies are pretty simple to make and a welcome addition to any gathering, all year long. One bite of the classic, Apple Pie will transport you back to childhood. Or, try something a bit more unusual like the Butterscotch Cream Quince Pie with its spicy gingersnap crust. Slices of tropical Coconut Macadamia Cream Pie or rich and decadent Pecan Pie will quickly disappear into the tummies of your happy guests. For a lighter dessert try Mocha Mouse Chiffon Pie or Mile High Strawberry Pie--pure heaven on a plate. Recipes for 7 different types of crusts plus simple toppings like meringue and chocolate fudge sauce put the icing on the, well, pie.

Alain Ducasse's Desserts and Pastries : Grand Livre de Cuisine

In this magnificent volume, the second in the Grand Livre de Cuisine series, celebrated chefs Alain Ducasse and Frédéric Robert comprehensively cover the art of making desserts, pastries, candy, and other sweets. Everything is here— mousses and fondants; cookies and cakes; ice creams and sorbets; bonbons and nougats; fruit tarts, profiteroles, and sweet crèpes. The book’s 250 mouth-watering recipes range from traditional treats such as peach melba, candied apples, and oeufs à la neige to audacious concoctions such as tropical fruit– stuffed ravioli and coconut-encrusted lollipops. Decidedly French yet international in flavor, the book presents the authors’ masterful takes on American cheesecake; Italian cannolis, zuppa inglese, and tiramisù; and the Austrian confections known as viennoiseries. Organized by main ingredient, the Grand Livre’s structure epitomizes Ducasse’s philosophy of cooking and baking, which holds that culinary techniques should accentuate and enhance an ingredient’s true nature—not mask it. The book features more than 650 color photographs, including a full-page, close-up photo of each finished dish. Cross-sectional drawings clearly display the internal “architecture” of some of the more complex creations. Alain Ducasse is the celebrated chef of four renowned restaurants: Le Louis XV in Monaco, Restaurant Plaza Athénée in Paris, Alain Ducasse at The Essex House in New York, and Beige in Tokyo. In 25 years as a prominent chef, he has not only developed expertise in the culinary arts but also become successful as an educator and publisher. Frederic Robert has spent the last 25 years working side by side with Alain Ducasse, overseeing all the pastries, desserts, and breads for his restaurants. He has received numerous culinary awards.

300 Best Chocolate Recipes

All the rich delights of chocolate captured in one volume of decadence. Only chocolate is so rich, smooth and satisfying for so many of us. Whether bittersweet, semisweet, milk or white, there is a chocolate for everyone to love. Square or chip, grated or melted, the world's favorite baking ingredient is chocolate. 300 Best Chocolate Recipes is an outstanding collection of chocolate recipes originally published in two books, 125 Best Chocolate Chip Recipes and 125 Best Chocolate Recipes. This delicious array of recipes ranges from the traditional to the sophisticated, and from the simple to the challenging. Featuring incredibly creative and luscious recipes for everything from cakes, cookies, pies, breads, puddings, bars, squares and muffins to hot and cold beverages and sauces, these are fail-safe recipes for a baker with any level of experience. Here is a sampling: Chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons Raspberry chocolate chip cookies High-octane espresso chip morning muffins Chocolate mousse cake Double chocolate cheesecake ice cream. Every recipe is easy to follow -- and works to perfection every time.

Tartine

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that instantly says classic. This is one of them. Acclaimed pastry chef Elisabeth Prueitt and master baker Chad Robertson share not only their fabulous recipes, but also the secrets and expertise that transform a delicious homemade treat into a great one. It's no wonder there are lines out the door of Elisabeth and Chad's acclaimed Tartine Bakery. It's been written up in every magazine worth its sugar and spice. Here their bakers' art is transformed into easy-to-follow recipes for the home kitchen. The only thing hard about this cookbook is deciding which recipe to try first: moist Brioche Bread Pudding; luscious Banana Cream Pie; the sweet-tart perfection of Apple Crisp. And the cakes! Billowing chiffon cakes. Creamy Bavarians bursting with seasonal fruits. A luxe Devil's Food Cake. Lemon Pound Cake, Pumpkin Tea Cake. Along with the sweets, cakes, and confections come savory treats, such as terrifically simple Wild Mushroom Tart and Cheddar Cheese Crackers. There's a little something here for breakfast, lunch, tea, supper, hors d'oeuvres—and, of course, a whole lot for dessert! Practical advice comes in the form of handy Kitchen Notes. These hows and whys convey the authors' know-how, whether it's the key to the creamiest quiche (you'll be surprised), the most efficient way to core an apple, or tips for ensuring a flaky crust. Top it off with gorgeous photographs throughout and you have an utterly fresh, inspiring, and invaluable cookbook. A Note on the Measurements: There are three measuring systems in the recipes: standard American volume measures, imperial fluid ounces and ounces, and metric milliliters and grams.

Chocolate

Linda Collister, the doyenne of baking, has added another string to her bow as the Chocolate Queen. In Techniques she explains grades of chocolate and methods of melting and tempering chocolate. There are simple methods for tasty chocolates, such as Easter Eggs and Truffles. Baking includes Devil's Food Cake, Sachertorte and a Classic Chocolate Sponge with numerous Fillings and Toppings. Little cakes include Linda's almost legendary Fudge Brownies, plus Muffins, Macaroons and Cookies. There is a delicious range of Puddings and Ice Creams, including three kinds of Chocolate Mousse and Deluxe and White Chocolate, plus classic and contemporary Drinks recipes. An irresistible collection of recipes featuring just about everything the passionate chocolate lover cold ever desire.

Great Pies & Tarts

Carole Walter makes it easy for even beginners to create delicious pies and tarts. Simple, step-by-step instructions show how to make both American-style pie pastry and French-style tart pastry. Also included are the four basic recipes on which all other pies and tarts are based. Finally, Walter offers over 150 recipes for both sweet and savory pies, tarts, and sauces, including: Blueberry Crumb Pie with Warm Blueberry Sauce Java Eggnog Pie Flourless Macaroon Tart in Almond Nut Pastry Apple Tarte Tatin Wild Mushroom Tart with Savory Streusel This accessible book is a must-have for beginners and an ideal reference for experienced pastry chefs.

Baking Basics and Beyond

With the demise of Home Economic classes, many adults have no baking experience at all, relying on dreary store-bought baked goods and artificial mixes to satisfy their cravings. Baking Basics and Beyond allows even absolute novices to prepare a wide array of delicious, healthy breads, cakes, cookies, pies, and more. In a warm, reassuring manner, Pat Sinclair leads beginning bakers step-by-step through each recipe, thoroughly explaining each technique and direction. After learning a basic technique, additional recipes provide further practice and more elaborate results. The book contains more than 100 recipes, from old favorites like icebox cookies, cornbread, and brownies to updated classics, including Butterscotch Cashew Blondies, Chai Latte Custards, and Savory Wild Mushroom Bread Pudding. Throughout, explanations and precise tips, based on Sinclair’s years of baking experience, make readers feel as though there is a friendly teacher in the kitchen, peering over their shoulders, and guiding them toward perfect results, every time.

Serendipity Sundaes

A little bit naughty and a lot nice, Serendipity 3 is a colorful culinary landmark for New York's sweets-seeking families, tourists, and scenemakers alike. Serendipity Sundaes (following on the success of their last book, Sweet Serendipity) is chock-full of entertaining inspiration for creating your own versions of its world-famous towering treats at home. Sprinkled throughout the many easy recipes are morsels of the restaurant's celebrity-studded history and candy-colored personality. Wit and whimsy abound in the realm of Serendipity—there's the Strawberry Fields Sundae, the Cheesecake Vesuvius, and the Outrageous Banana Split, to name but a few. Don't forget the many melting sundae spinoffs either—the famous Frrrozen Hot Chocolate, Ice Cream Sandwiches, and Milkshakes and Malteds. For the truly devoted decadents, there is also a section on making your own ice cream, sauces, and special toppings from scratch. Praise for the restaurant: When you find something this good, it must be shared. —Oprah Winfrey Bad moods melt quickly here. —Saveur

Creme Brulee

40 easier-than-you-think recipes for making lovely crème brûlée. Delicious and sophisticated yet elegantly simple, crème brûlée deserves its status as one of the world's most famous desserts. Few can resist its delectable charms. In Crème Brûlée, Sarah Lewis presents 40 easy-to-make crème brûlée recipes to delight friends and family. For those who have never made a brûlée, she provides careful, step-by-step instructions. More experienced cooks can turn right away to the more exotic flavor combinations, both sweet and savory: Raspberry and Champagne Brûlée Chocolate Rum Truffle Brûlée Salmon and Scallion Brûlée Goat Cheese and Sun-Dried Tomato Brûlée Vanilla Bean Crème Brûlée Apple Pie Brûlée Mini Spinach and Tomato Lasagna Brûlée. From the classic to exciting new flavors, this book will turn any cook into a crème brulée pro.

Homemade Ice Cream : Complete Idiot's Guide

Scream for ice cream! Homemade ice cream has a special taste that money can’t buy, and it is a family activity and summer tradition in many homes. But for the novice, homemade ice cream isn’t as simple as it seems, and even families that have been making it for years look for new recipes and ideas to challenge their skills and delight their taste buds. More than 200 fully tested recipes, ranging from the simple to the sublime Step-by-step instructions for making ice cream, sherbet, sorbet, frozen yogurt, and gelato, as well as frozen and ice-cream based drinks Topping and serving recipes and ideas

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