Icebox Desserts

The 100 fanciful, no-fail recipes in Icebox Desserts range from updated versions of classics to inspired new crowd-pleasing creations and are accompanied by gorgeous full-color photos. Icebox desserts are fun to make and they require no baking, aside from making your own crumb crusts if you wish (store-bought versions will do). Looking for cool inspiration for a grown-up dessert? Try Sambuca and Espresso Sabayon Mousse or Chocolate and Orange Bavarian Cake. Want a jaw-dropping dessert to please kids of all ages? Make Rose's Watermelon Ice Cream Bombe or Homemade Peppermint Patties. Lauren Chattman has a delightfully simple yet downright delicious recipe for every taste and every occasion.

Chocolate Holidays,

Revised edition of the previously published A Year in Chocolate. Dramatic, seductive, playful, infinite is its variety, otherworldly in its taste. It's chocolate, and three-time Cookbook of the Year award winner Alice Medrich unlocks its secrets so you can indulge your passion for it every day of the year. The beloved Alice Medrich, renowned for the impeccably written and tested recipes that have three times earned her Cookbook of the Year honors--most recently from the IACP for Bittersweet--offers fifty stellar, amazing-tasting chocolate desserts, each a little jewel of elegance and simplicity. Chocolate Holidays unlocks the secrets of our favorite sweet. Turning her attention to the year's most special occasions--New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, birthdays and anniversaries, Hanukkah and Christmas, and every day in between--Medrich has created dozens of memorable desserts that will help to make the traditions and memories of your celebrations all the more unforgettable. Whether your holiday festivals are large or small, whether you tend to the homey or the glitzy, you'll find everything you need in this boutique collection. This revised edition of the previously published A Year in Chocolate includes an extended section on ingredients, equipment, and decorative touches and detailed notes on how to customize the recipes to use the chocolate of your choice.

Great Cakes : Home-Baked Creations

In its inimitable and classic style, Country Living bakes up a scrumptious selection of 50 amazing cakes. When Country Living put a cake on the cover of the magazine, sales shot through the roof; after all, it's everyone's favorite dessert. With this delicious compilation, anyone can bake one that's sweet and satisfying--and make a magical memory for those who taste it. The 50 delectable recipes, showcased on beautifully designed pages with mouthwatering photographs, range from rich classic German Chocolate Cake to sublime, delicate Coconut Cloud Cake. Cheesecake lovers will get a thrill over the Blueberry Hill version. Chocolate Espresso Torte makes an elegant finale at a dinner party. And the Berry Dotted Angel Food Cake is simply heavenly. Sprinkled throughout are baking tips and frosting recipes, making this attractive volume the perfect gift for Mother's Day, a birthday, or any day.

All-American Dessert Book

America’s favorite baker, Nancy Baggett, has been on a road trip around the country. Now she’s back, with something for every dessert lover: the best pies, cakes, puddings, crisps, cookies, ice creams, and candies in the land. Many of her discoveries were locally famous family secrets—until now. They include a memorably simple blueberry buckle from a Vermont bed-and-breakfast; a coconut chiffon cake from an island off the coast of Virginia that has become a “destination dessert”; a never-before-revealed recipe for chocolate-dipped caramel candies, the fund-raising specialty of the women of an Episcopal church in New Mexico; and a sublime peach cobbler from a cook in the Ozarks. Baggett has tested and retested every recipe in her home kitchen to ensure that all cooks get the same results. She has even included a chapter on easy gifts to make with children, from “bars in a jar” (a homemade brownie mix) to fancifully decorated graham-cracker holiday cottages. Every recipe in this lavishly photographed book comes with an intriguing bite of history, a witty anecdote, or a little-known fact. Together they tell the story of America.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Debbie Fields' Great American Desserts

As seen on PBS, 100 master recipes & variations for America's best-loved desserts. Color photos. 258 pgs. Hard