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Recipes for desserts and other sweets of all kinds in nine all-star flavors, including vanilla and chocolate, fruits for all seasons, coffee, caramel, and more Pastry chefs have a secret weapon—an insiders’ list of customers’ most popular flavors. Vanilla, berry and cherry, apple, citrus, cheese, nuts, caramel, coffee, and chocolate: These are the surefire hits that appear on menus across the country time and again. Author Tish Boyle has translated...

The award-winning author of Mediterranean Street Food introduces readers to the sweet side of Middle Eastern cuisine with these seventy classic desserts. The seductive flavors of the Middle East have won over food lovers around the world, but the sweets of the region have remained largely unknown to Western palates-until now. Sweet Middle East, by doyenne of Middle Eastern cooking Anissa Helou, presents seventy classic desserts fragrant with spices,...

Marilynn and Sheila Brass-are on a mission to bring old fashioned American home baking back to everyone's kitchen. In Baking with the Brass Sisters, they've gone to their collection of trusted manuscript cookbooks and handwritten recipes to rediscover home-baked favorites that were brought to America from around the world, as well as many created right here. Home bakers will find wonderful recipes for treats such as Grandins Goldberg's Honey Cake,...

After five inspiring years of innovative recipes, travel, and the celebration of bakers and cultures worldwide, we bring you this dazzling collection of more that 650 new recipes. From towering layer cakes to simple stir-together brownies, this cookbook offers something for every kind of baker, from novice to expert. Showcasing fresh, seasonal ingredients and celebrating tradition and history this cookbook will provide the ultimate inspiration for...

Michelle Lopez--the wildly popular and critically acclaimed blogger behind "Hummingbird High"--teaches busy people how to make cookies, pies, cakes, and other treats, without spending hours in the kitchen.

Trying sweet treats is a piece of cake for The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

The Christmas season is a magical time-sleigh bells ringing, puffy snow flurrying, a cozy fire crackling, and wonderful aromas coming from the kitchen as families make yummy Christmas treats. Christmas Baking will make the holiday season even more magical with fun and simple recipes that are sure to become Christmas traditions in every home. Prominent Swedish pastry chef Mia Öhrn offers thirty-eight of her amazingly creative and delicious recipes...

With 50 tempting dessert recipes and 140 stunning color photographs, from chocolate sea shells to edible butterflies and pinecone-shaped gingersnaps, this book takes readers on an artful, tasty trip through nature in Norway, season by season. Each recipe is detailed, precise, and easy to follow, with no special equipment required. With step-by-step, illustrated instructions and an emphasis on simplicity, Hovland's approach to baking is as accessible...