Eating Well Dessert Cookbook

From the wonderful magazine of healthy food, 150 easy-to-follow recipes that deliver the rich flavors & luscious textures of your favorite desserts - without the fat. Nutrition counts.

500 Best Cookies, Bars and Squares

The ultimate family dessert collection. For sweet satisfaction and delight, there is nothing like homemade cookies, brownies, bars or squares. Fun to eat and easy to prepare, they make the perfect portable snack and dessert. 500 Best Cookies, Bars and Squares includes a wide variety of recipes and flavors--ranging from chocolate-based brownies and fruit bars and squares to an extraordinary range of cookies. The cookie recipes include the classic as well as variations on traditional favorites: Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies Lemon Shortbread Farm-Style Oatmeal Cookies, Greek Almond Cookies and Crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies Christmas Fruit Cookies, Cherry Valentine Cookies and Hanukah Sugar Cookies Caramel Double Nut Squares and Favorite Glazed Lemon Raspberry Bars Rhubarb Crisp Squares Old-Fashioned Butter Tart Bars and Classic Chocolate Nut Brownies. Each recipe is easy and delicious. The author also includes her time-tested personal baking tips and techniques.

Le Cordon Bleu: Tarts and Pastries

Reward your palate with these fabulous tarts and pastries, perfected for your breakfast table in the kitchens of Le Cordon Bleu. Wonderful selections to enjoy at breakfast, brunch and dessert.

Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor

The Cake Mix Doctor goes chocolate!–six words to send home bakers into a swoon. It's a marriage made in bakers' heaven–150 all-new, all-easy recipes for cakes, starring the ingredient that surpasses all other flavors, including vanilla, by a 3-to-1 margin, and that Americans consume to the tune of 2.8 billion pounds a year. Starting with versatile supermarket cake mixes and adding just the right extras–including melted semisweet chocolate bars, chocolate chips, or cocoa powder, plus fresh eggs or a bit of buttermilk, dried coconut, mashed bananas, or instant coffee powder–a baker at any level if experience can turn out dark, rich, moist, delicious chocolate layer cakes, time and again. Rounding out the book are 38 all-new homemade frostings and fillings, and a full-color insert showing every cake in the book.

Elegantly Easy Liqueur Desserts

Starting with a compendium of the most famous liqueurs including notes on the flavor and the aroma each imparts, this book explains how they can be used to create desserts that range from new and inventive variations on simple rum cake and brandy sauce to exotic babas, velvet custards, icy sorbets, tarts, fondues, gateaux, souffles, and, creme brulee. Beautifully designed with color pictures throughout, written in a friendly, easy-to-follow style with plenty of hints, tips, and time-saving ideas to make the home cook feel confident in both the preparation and presentation of these exquisite creations. Among the recipes featured are: Screwdriver Carrot Cake; Midori Mousse with Honeydew Melon; Plum Wine Sorbet; and Chocolate- Frangelico Cheesecake.

125 Best Ice Cream Recipes

125 Best Ice Cream Recipes features classic and traditional recipes for ices, sorbets, granitas, gelatos, and sorbets. Create decadent ice creams like Apple Brown Betty, Banana Toffee, Dulce De Leche, or Chocolate Hazelnut Ice Cream. Included here are the tips and techniques to make perfect ice creams and ices and advice on purchasing the ice cream maker that best suits your needs. With over a dozen sauce recipes, you'll create the perfect topping. Whether it's a special occasion, a midnight snack, or a blistering hot day, yo will find a recipe that is sure to become a favorite.

Mom's Best Desserts

We may love the dazzling caramel cages, gold leaf, and apricot coulis of restaurant desserts, but when we're in our own kitchens, a blueberry pie is more likely to fill the bill. For birthdays, a tall devil's food cake is still just the right thing. And during those precious weeks when fresh strawberries are available, who wants anything fancier than strawberry shortcake? Gingerbread cheers a friend home with the flu, and creamy rice pudding soothes the soul after a hard week at work. Here are more than 100 truly great American recipes that no home baker should be without: chocolate layer cakes and blueberry pie, cherry cobbler and apple pandowdy, lemon meringue and chocolate cream pie, baked custard and Indian pudding, chocolate chip cookies and gingerbread men, butterscotch pudding and baked apple dumplings. Enhanced with delightful anecdotes and historical tidbits culled from three centuries of cookery and housekeeping books, Mom's Best Desserts is a cookbook collector's dream.

Death by Chocolate Cakes

In this scrumptious collection, revered chef Marcel Desaulniers serves up some of his most inventive, most sinful, most seductive chocolate creations ever. Here are such mouthwatering delights as Heart of Darkness Cake, the ultimate cupcake with a melted chocolate truffle center. Chocolate Almond Cake with Red Raspberry Mousse (the very cake Desaulniers created for Julia Child's birthday); Chocolate Chunk Cookie Cake and more. For chocoholics eager for a quick fix, Desaulniers includes plenty of fast, easy recipes, some of which come from his mother's circle of chocolate-lover friends. From Margie's Golden Raisin Heavy Fudge Cake, to Mimi Montano's Chocolate Zucchini Cake, these desserts are sure to please the most discriminating dessert lover. Included too is a collection of ice cream, sauces, beverages, and other delectables that complement these traditions.

Baking with Julia

Hands-on baking with recipes and techniques that teach you how to make great breads, pies, cobblers, cookies, cakes and pastries, both sweet and savory. A world-class course in baking. For new and practiced bakers alike. Baking with Julia presents an extraordinary assemblage of talent, knowledge and artistry from the new generation of bakers whose vision is so much a part of this book. The list of contributors reads like a Who's Who of today's master bakers, including Flo Braker, Steve Sullivan, Marcel Desaulniers, Nick Malgieri, Alice Medrich, Nancy Silverton, Martha Stewart and a host of bright new talents such as Jeffery Alford and Naomi Duguid.

365 Great Cakes & Pies

Best seller! An eighteenth contribution to the popular series features a ring-binder format and such recipes as Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake, Raspberry Princess Cake, Iced Cappucino Cupcakes, and Caramel Ginger Walnut Tarts with Chocolate Cognac Glaze.

Butter Sugar Flour Eggs

Two of today's fastest-rising culinary stars present a whimsical, original, and decidedly delicious collection of more than 150 dessert recipes, arranged according to the flavors that make each a distinctive delight. Like the ultimate dessert menu, it features such memorable treats as the authors' signature Not Your Usual Lemon Meringue Pie, tweaked favorites like Strawberry Shortcake with Sour Cream and Brown Sugar, and even an elegant rendition of the celebrated Blackout Cake.

Mr. Food Simply Chocolate

Think chocolate goodies are hard to make? Not when you make them Mr. Food's way! 150 quick and easy chocolate recipes.

Betty Crocker Ultimate Cake Mix Cookbook

With Betty Crocker, delicious desserts are a piece of cake! Take your favorite Betty Crocker SuperMoist cake mix flavor, add a drop of this, a dash of that, stir, bake, decorate, and you’ve created dessert magic beyond your sweetest dreams! Here’s your complete guide to baking with cake mix, packed with foolproof recipes from the ultimate cake mix experts–the Betty Crocker Kitchens. All your favorites are here, easy to make, easier to bake and easiest of all to enjoy! So whether you’re a first-time baker in search of tempting treats or an expert ready for a challenge, you’ll find plenty of great ideas in Betty Crocker’s Ultimate Cake Mix Cookbook. Planning a big birthday bash? Decorate a pretty Ballet Slippers Cake to see any aspiring ballerina twirl in delight. On the go to a potluck party? Tote along a super-rich Triple-Fudge Cake and all you’ll bring home is the empty pan. Craving a cookie jar filled to the brim? Bake a batch of Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies for a sure-fire snacking treat. Hankering for holiday cheer? Create oh-so-cute Rudolph Cupcakes to make any holiday party merry and bright. Surprising someone special with a splendid celebration? Frost an elegant Chocolate Ganache Cake and watch your guests ooh and aah.

Cookies! Good Housekeeping Favorite Recipes

Simply the best cookie recipes ever—all triple-tested. Thanks to Good Housekeeping, the cookie jar will never be empty again. With these simple and satisfying recipes, even new bakers will make perfect cookies the first and every time. All the cookies were developed in the famous Good Housekeeping kitchens. Some recipes came from the staff, and others from the magazine’s readers, but each one is triple-tested and tasty. All the ingredients of success are here: how to measure properly, select the right cookie sheets, time your recipes, and use specialized gadgets. Whip up some warm kitchen memories with irresistible Butterscotch Fingers, baked with pecans to accentuate the richness; giant Black-and-White Cookies; and holiday treats such as Christmas Rocks with candied fruit and Hamantaschen pastries for Purim.

Book of Chocolate

The newest title in the popular Book of series, here is a collection of 80 chocolate recipes--hot, cold, frozen, and baked desserts, plus chocolate sauces, fondues, and drinks. Recipes include Chocolate-Orange Mousse, Mocha-Espresso Ice Cream, Tiramisu Fondue, and Mexican Hot Chocolate. The book features simple, step-by-step instructions, illustrated with full-color photographs.