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Desserts: More Than 140 of Our Most Beloved Recipes Hardcover – September 5, 2017
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- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTI Inc. Books
- Publication dateSeptember 5, 2017
- Dimensions8.25 x 1 x 10.5 inches
- ISBN-109780848752255
- ISBN-13978-0848752255
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- ASIN : 0848752252
- Publisher : TI Inc. Books (September 5, 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780848752255
- ISBN-13 : 978-0848752255
- Item Weight : 2.35 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.25 x 1 x 10.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,328,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,753 in Dessert Baking (Books)
- #5,060 in Baking (Books)
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 13, 2017
The approx. 150 recipes tend to be for versatile bakers with well-stocked kitchens, to be refined (even complex) in flavors and special vs. everyday, and to be rich (I’m going by the ingredients lists; nutritional info is not provided). They’re arranged in groupings of Cakes & Pastries, Pies & Fruit Desserts, Cookies & Bars, Puddings & Custards, Frozen Desserts, and Candies & Sauces. An evocative full-page, full-color photo accompanies almost every entry, and I think most people (and foodies for sure) would see this collection as luscious. So I’m sad that the recipes didn’t hold my interest to read, much less prepare, much less eat even if at a restaurant.
I did mark some smaller-scale, less-decadent entries to try right now for my husband and me, among them:
. Caramel sauce (to pair with sliced apples for dipping)
. Sour cream coffee cake muffins (can freeze some for later)
. Apple cake with cranberries (assembled like a pineapple upside-down cake)
. Lemon-glazed citrus-yogurt pound cake (when baked as mini-muffins, they’re described as “a shot of fresh-squeezed juice,” YUM!)
There are 6 different sections that cover pretty much any type of dessert item one could wish for. Every recipe has its own page, and there are gorgeous full-color images to go along. No frantic flipping, and an idea of what the finished dessert really is and what it should look like. Always helpful, but particularly for the pre-teen, who is still learning so much about baking. It's also sturdy, and should last for a long time of flipping through pages and making recipes!
The recipes are easy to follow, and most of them are not terribly complicated. Our favorite thus far has been the Chocolate Brownie Cookies - combining two house favorites into one, and being the perfect dessert for the summer BBQ season. Easy to make, easy to take!
Overall, of the dessert-type specialty cookbooks, this is in my top 3. I look forward to this being a house favorite for many years to come!
What is confusing is that ISBN 0848756274, Food & Wine's "Staff Favorites Desserts More than140 of our Most Beloved Recipes" hardback appears to be the same book, published by Oxmoor also, in 2017.
Anyway, I found the other book at a knockdown price, and the recipes are very nice, often innovative, and each one has a picture, always a good thing. The only shortcoming I can find is the index, which is limited. If you want to find out which recipe uses elderflower, or Ovaltine, the index is no help.
There is a wide gambit of recipes in here. Some are very basic and familiar, most are at least a bit different than what you would expect to find in Betty Crocker (or similar all-purpose cookbook), and there are some that sound... exotic. Like miso banana bread. I mean, don't get me wrong--I love miso soup and I love banana bread, but I would never have thought of trying to combine the two. It's so weird sounding, I'm going to have to try it... maybe... someday... Anyway, my wife thinks the "exotic" (I think she called them "gourmet") things are too weird to bother trying with and to her this was a detriment to the book. I figure the book has enough other, much more approachable recipes in it that it can afford to also have some of these other items for more adventurous cooks.
Many recipes will require you to source less-common ingredients like palm sugar, coconut flour, or similar. In my experience, these are easier to find than it may seem, if you are willing to actually look for them. If you just want to get cooking, however, you can find substitutions on the web pretty easily.
