Gooey Desserts [Paperback]

Elaine Corn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995

Every rich, creamy, and delicious dessert--including French silk pie, velvet cream custard, and cream-and-sugar slave--in this unique collection shares a common element: gooeyness.

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Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Corn's collection of oozingly sweet, often devastatingly rich desserts comes as the perfect antidote to the low-fat dessert cookbooks flooding the market. The chapter titles conjure up irresistible images, from "Chocolate Goo" to "Great Gooey Classics"--creamy puddings, lots of caramel, the currently ubiquitous molten chocolate cakes, not to mention childhood delights like Hello Dollies and Crispy Rice Bars. Corn knows her audience well; as a newspaper food editor, she received more requests for dessert recipes than for any other category. Recommended for most collections.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

It's indicative of Americans' unique love of high-calorie sweets that food editor Corn has difficulty defining gooey. Her attempt is this: "Hyperbole is part of the allure of gooey desserts. They're bigger, taller, lusher, richer." But she has no trouble compiling a 140-recipe collection that contains absolutely no nutritional analysis information. The closest she comes to reducing calories is in six dishes, appropriately placed at the back of the book and entitled "getting the goo without the gotcha." Other than that brief nod to weight watchers, she advocates--and names--all things decadent, such as custard obsession, chocolate bondage with lush chocolate sauce, lips of the beauty, the ultimate vanilla pudding cake, and mascarpone cheesecake in Mexican chocolate crust with pecans, among others. Barbara Jacobs --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559586974
• ISBN-13: 978-1559586979
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,843,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite cookbook!, November 11, 2002

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Peter J. Sander (Granite Bay, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gooey Desserts (Hardcover)

Where would I be without Elaine's recipe for homemade chocolate pudding? The horror! I can't imagine life without it (and who knew it was so darn easy?). Or the recipe for Caramel Chocolate brownies, oh my! I haven't made plain old brownies since. Although it seems this book is now out of print, it is well worth tracking down a used copy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best comfort food!, January 28, 2001

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mirope "mirope" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gooey Desserts (Hardcover)

I've used this book for years and absolutely love it. Don't let the title fool you - this isn't about kids' desserts. Many of the recipes are truly elegant and sophisticated, even if they are "gooey". Friends insist that I make the Italian Cream Cake in this book again and again. Try it - you won't be disappointed!

5.0 out of 5 stars DELICIOUS, June 23, 2010

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This review is from: Gooey Desserts (Paperback)

More desserts than I knew existed, with an emphasis on all the gooey delicious stuff. Calorie counters just don't think about it--just eat it. Best pudding recipie I've ever tried.