Caramel

Caramel is the dreamiest, yummiest, most irresistible of sweets. And this full-surrender cookbook celebrates its remarkable versatility with creamy puddings, crunchy toffee, moist cakes, and fluffy meringues. Whether enjoying the satisfying crackle through a Crème Brulee crust, fresh fruit drizzled with Classic Caramel Dessert Sauce, Mad Cap Marshmallows dipped in chocolate and caramel, or luscious Caramel Crème Anglaise, everyone will find a favorite among these delicious treats. Step-by-step instructions make each recipe practically foolproof, while a helpful overview of basic techniques gives caramel lovers the tools they need to explore all the possibilities of sugar in its most sublime form. More than 30 select recipes and 20 color photographs paint a portrait in caramel no cook will want to miss. Peggy Cullen is a freelance food writer whose work has been featured in Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and Food and Wine. She lives in Massachusetts.

Galletas : Cookies, Spanish-Language Edition

Spanish Language Edition! This delightful title celebrates the cookie in all its shapes, sizes, and flavors, from homey Scotch shortbread and sparkling holiday stars to sophisticated treats like chocolate espresso bars and elegant hazelnut meringues. Decorating tips and a guide to cookie-making basics ease the way, and color photos add delicious inspiration.

Williams Sonoma Baking

Baking presents over 200 recipes, both classic and contemporary, from the award-winning Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library series. Find delicious preparations for muffins, breads, pizzas, cookies, cakes, pies, and fruit desserts. The basic recipes and techniques section includes an illustrated glossary. Each recipe is kitchen-tested and accompanied by a full-color photograph of the finished dish, as well as suggestions for planning, serving, garnishing, and storing. Step-by-step photographs illustrate instructions and tips for kneading and shaping bread dough, baking and decorating beautiful cakes, and ideas for topping a variety of baked goods.

Super-Duper Cupcakes

These cupcakes—from the owner of the Cupcake Caboose Company—are the yummiest and best looking ever! They come in sweet chocolate or creamy vanilla, dyed and decorated with dazzling designs. Best of all, every kid can make one. Ambitious little bakers will enlist a parent’s help and start from scratch, using the well-illustrated recipes for both cupcakes and frosting. Or they might want to get creative with store-bought pastries, mixes, and packaged icings. Either way, becoming a “cupcake artist” is easy, especially with the handy “cupcake key” to explain which are simplest and which need a little more practice. It’s delicious fun!

Gorgeous Cakes

Baking cakes is enjoying a new lease on life as people remember how fun and easy to make they are. This is a comprehensive cake book with everything from classics to new creations. There are sumptuous cheesecakes, cute cupcakes, delicious dream cakes, indulgent chocolate cakes as well as guilt free cakes every cake you would ever want to make, or eat, is included in this stylish, fun and beautifully illustrated book.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ice Cream

Conran Kitchen Series - The gift-quality cookbooks in this beautifully designed series are each packed with more than 70 fun and inspiring recipes, organized around an ingredient or occasion. Because mealtime is about more than food, the series emphasizes simple and creative ways to serve the dishes. Lime and Papaya Crush Peach Freeze Hazelnut Ice Cream Saffron and Mace Ice Cream Marmalade Ice Cream Bombe Zamora

Dessert Lovers' Choice

After being diagnosed with major health concerns, Yvonne Sanders-Butler made several lifestyle changes, including following an exercise regimen, eating well-balanced meals--and using natural ingredients in her family's traditional dessert recipes. Here is a collection of her healthy dessert recipes that anyone can enjoy. The recipes are suitable in moderation for anyone on calorie-restricted or diabetic diets, featuring all natural ingredients, nutritional analyses and diabetic eschanges, and illustrated with full-color photographs.

Kaffeehaus : The Best Desserts

Transporting readers to three of the most romantic cities in the world, this beautiful book brings to life their old-world charms and architectural gems, and presents 150 impeccable recipes for recreating their legendary cakes and pastries in the home kitchen. With an attention to detail developed through years of teaching, the author explains how to make perfect accompaniments to a cup of coffee, as well as spectacular endings to elegant meals. Filled with food facts and lore (from when coffee first came to Vienna to the great Sachertorte controversy), this volume is a treat for armchair travelers and cooks alike.

Dangerous Desserts

No matter how sensible the rest of your food is, dessert is the time to give in to your wicked, wicked ways! Mousses and meringues, pies and pastries, fruit confections and chocolate fantasies, baked puddings and frozen delights—everything that the wildest gastronomic fantasy could concoct is in Dangerous Desserts. Some are so simple you can whip them up in seconds, others are guaranteed to make your guests gasp in astonishment. From the luxury of cream and chocolate to health-conscience fresh fruit, Dangerous Desserts demonstrates that not all sins are bad for you! Spectacular presentation and divine flavor are what's important in a great dessert, and the recipes and photographs in this book—exquisite treats such as Cappuccino Creams, Bitter Chocolate Tart with Coffee Bean Syrup, Spiced Poached Pears, and Chocolate Fondue—are packed full of palate appeal. There are recipes for all occasions, and every chapter features at least one master class, with clear step-by-step photographs for making a classic recipe such as cheesecake or crème brûlée. It makes no difference whether you are a beginner or a professional pastry chef, anyone can tackle the desserts in this book with confidence. Go ahead and indulge all your senses! Mouthwatering photographs and recipes to suit every palate make this the most comprehensive and visually alluring dessert book available. No one can resist this vast range of temptations, from Tiramisu Cheesecake to Turkish Delight Ice Cream Indulge in 200 dangerous recipes with 200 tempting color photos A Master Class selection in every chapter gives step-by-step written and photographic instructions Spectacular, mouth-watering photographs will guarantee ooohs and aaahs as it's unwrapped