Recipe Hall of Fame Dessert Cookbook (Best of the Best Cookbook Series) [Paperback]

Gwen McKee (Editor), Barbara Moseley (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Best of the Best Cookbook Series | Publication Date: October 1, 2000

What's for dessert? A strawberry shortcake! A flaky apple pastry! A light soufflè! How about cheesecake? Or let's just have some cookies and ice cream! No matter what dessert you choose, you'll find the BEST recipe for it in this book.

From old standards like Red Velvet Cake and Old-Fashioned Lemon Meringue Pie, to quick and easy favorites like Apple Spoon-Ups and Lazy Betty, to new and exciting creations like Pastry Tulip Cups and Mocha Polka Walnut Torte, each of these incredibly delicious desserts will inspire a standing ovation.

Following the success of The Recipe Hall of Fame Cookbook, which sold over 200,000 copies in its first year, this newest book in the Recipe Hall of Fame Collection is sure to become a classic. Chosen from the more than 4,000 dessert recipes in our Best of the Best State Cookbook Series, each of which is already a chosen favorite from their state, these 318 recipes are the most popular, most requested, most memorable, knock-your-socks-off desserts ever!

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Quail Ridge Press (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893062198
• ISBN-13: 978-1893062191
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #596,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A very odd cookbook, March 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Recipe Hall of Fame Dessert Cookbook (Best of the Best Cookbook Series) (Paperback)

I bought this expecting "hometown" style recipes, but some of them are really odd. One of the advertised recipes is "Black Forest Cake", ordinarily one of my favorites - a chocolate cake with cherries and a whipped cream icing. In fact, the name is a translation from the German "Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte" - black forest cherry cake. But the recipe in this book is for 4 meringue disks layered together with a chocolate pudding-like filling and whipped cream. No cherries or cake in sight, and not like any Black Forest cake I've ever seen.

I also expected a fair number of packaged and instant ingredients in a cookbook like this, and there are. But, again, a lot of the recipes are very strange in this. "Raspberry Sherry Trifle" uses store-bought cake, Raspberry Jell-o (??? - never saw that in a trifle before), and frozen raspberries - but goes on to include making home-made vanilla cornstarch pudding. Huh? With all those commercially-prepared ingredients, why waste your time on homemade pudding? Use instant.

At first I thought that I have too much experience with real European desserts and real recipes - but I'm just getting into desserts, so I'm not much beyond the novice stage. I'm certainly no pro, but I know when I see something bizarre, and lots of these recipes are!

Interesting recipes, but don't expect to find a recipe for your favorite [fill in the blank], because it probably won't be what you expect.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommend!! --No Disappointments Here!!, October 22, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Recipe Hall of Fame Dessert Cookbook (Best of the Best Cookbook Series) (Paperback)

I have dozens of cookbooks. This one, along with the original Recipe Hall of fame cookbook, is my most-used cookbook!! This one does not collect dust!! Impressive desserts that only LOOK like you took all day to make!! And the ingredients are not something you have to go cross-the-city to an highly expensive gourmet store for!! Most recipes are easy to make, easy to clean-up, and always a hit--not a dud yet!!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recipe Hall of Fame Dessert Cookbook : Winning Recipes from, November 16, 2001

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Lynne W. Jeter (Ridgeland, MS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Recipe Hall of Fame Dessert Cookbook (Best of the Best Cookbook Series) (Paperback)

I thought the Recipe Hall of Fame Quick & Easy Cookbook : Winning Recipes from Hometown America was so good that I picked up this cookbook, too. There were so many delicious recipes that I had to try several over a weekend. Then I had to walk three miles a day the next week to burn off the extra calories! But it was worth it. Recipes for desserts adaptable to summer or winter menus, casual or formal entertaining, light or rich meal-enders, this cookbook has it all.