Interested in easy and impressive dessert recipes to add to your everyday, holiday or special occasion meals? Then look no further than your local library to satisfy your sweet tooth! Whether you’re after tasty pies, chocolatey cakes or something in between, you will find it here. Check out some of our titles below:
Summary: Chocolate's allure knows no limit-- so there are no limits on this collection of sumptuous recipes to indulge in. From easy breakfast pastries to modern showpieces that will impress your guests, the cooks at America's Test Kitchen share the tips and techniques-- and the recipes-- you never knew you needed to know.
Perfectly golden : adaptable recipes for sweet and simple treats By Angela Garbacz
Summary: A cookbook of treats from the Great Plains to satisfy every sweet tooth. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, Goldenrod Pastries is a community bakery with ambitious and talented baker Angela Garbacz at the helm. From her grandma’s famous peach coffee cake to caramel-covered pecan rolls, lemon meringue pie and frosted brownies to fluffernutter buns and confetti cookies, Garbacz’s pastries come out of the oven perfectly golden and regularly sell out. At her bakery, she creates delicious treats without dairy or gluten, but every recipe in this book can be made with butter and all-purpose flour just as easily as any alternative.
Salt & Straw ice cream cookbook by Tyler Malek and JJ Goode
Summary: Using a simple five-minute base recipe, you can make the “brilliant” (Andrew Zimmern), “astonishingly good” (Ruth Reichl) flavors of the innovative “ice cream gods” (Bon Appétit) Salt & Straw at home, including Sea Salt with Caramel Ribbons, Roasted Strawberry and Toasted White Chocolate.
Summary: Get the dough rolling and perfect your pie-making skills to bake beautiful, foolproof versions of the corner bakery classics and French patisserie favorites--plus a host of whimsical, modern pies and tarts of all kinds like sky-high meringue pies, uniquely flavored fruit pies with intricate lattice-woven tops, and lush elegant tarts.
Naked cakes : simply stunning cakes by Hannah Miles
Summary: While in recent years the trend has been for cakes to be encased in frosting and decorated in a fancy style, there is a new trend for stripping cakes back, and decorating them very simply with fresh edible flowers and vibrant berries or using pastel shades to make the cake itself the star attraction. The queen of cakes, Hannah Miles, has undressed classic cakes to create these delightful recipes. These cakes are not for every day—they are special treats and the perfect treat for birthdays, weddings and other celebrations all year round. From the surprisingly simple to the lusciously extravagant, family and friends will be astounded by these impressive bakes.
Summary: Each of America’s little bites—cookies, candies, wafers, brittles—tells a big story, and each speaks volumes about what was going on in America when the recipes were created. In American Cookie, the New York Times bestselling author and Cake Mix Doctor Anne Byrn takes us on a journey through America’s baking history.
Sweet : our best cupcakes, cookies, candy, and more by the editors of Food Network Magazine.
Summary: In Sweet, you’ll find over-the-top brownies, super fun cupcakes, show-off layer cakes, one-of-a-kind cookies and so much more. You don’t need to be an experienced baker to get started. Every dessert in this book is easy to follow—and totally foolproof. Each recipe has been triple-tested, so you know it’ll come out just right. Flip through and you’ll find some fun surprises, too.
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