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  • Published: 18 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781607743651
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $59.99
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Ready for Dessert, Revised

My Best Recipes [A Baking Book]




This paperback edition of David Lebovitz's best and favorite dessert recipes features a new design and more photographs, from one of the world's most popular food bloggers.

Pastry chef David Lebovitz is known for creating desserts with bold and high-impact flavor, not fussy, complicated presentations. Lucky for us, this translates into showstopping sweets that bakers of all skill levels can master. In Ready for Dessert, elegant finales such as Gâteau Victoire, Black Currant Tea Crème Brûlée, and Anise-Orange Ice Cream Profiteroles with Chocolate Sauce are as easy to prepare as comfort foods such as Plum-Blueberry Upside-Down Cake, Creamy Rice Pudding, and Cheesecake Brownies.
 
With his unique brand of humor—and a fondness for desserts with “screaming chocolate intensity”—David serves up a tantalizing array of more than 170 recipes for cakes, pies, tarts, crisps, cobblers, custards, soufflés, puddings, ice creams, sherbets, sorbets, cookies, candies, dessert sauces, fruit preserves, and even homemade liqueurs. David reveals his three favorites: a deeply spiced Fresh Ginger Cake; the bracing and beautiful Champagne Gelée with Kumquats, Grapefruits, and Blood Oranges; and his chunky and chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies. His trademark friendly guidance, as well as suggestions, storage advice, flavor variations, and tips will help ensure success every time.
 
Accompanied with stunning photos by award-winning photographer Maren Caruso, this new compilation of David’s best recipes to date will inspire you to pull out your sugar bin and get baking or churn up a batch of homemade ice cream. So if you’re ready for dessert (and who isn’t?), you’ll be happy to have this collection of sweet indulgences on your kitchen shelf—and your guests will be overjoyed, too.

  • Published: 18 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781607743651
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $59.99
Categories:

About the author

David Lebovitz

David Lebovitz is a sought-after cooking instructor with an award-winning food blog (davidlebovitz.com). Trained as a pastry chef in France and Belgium, David worked at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California for twelve years. He now lives in Paris, France, where he leads culinary tours of the city.

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Praise for Ready for Dessert, Revised

Praise for Ready for Dessert:

  • "You'll want to make everything in this book." --Washington Post
  • "An absolutely gorgeous book filled with pages upon pages of recipes and photos that will motivate you to get in the kitchen and start baking." --SeriousEats.com
  • "Lebovitz's chatty, down-to-earth tone is sure to steady any rattled nerves as you turn the oven on and get the measuring cups out. And for seasoned cooks and bakers, Lebovitz's recipes are classics worth revisiting." --Epicurious.com, Best Dessert Cookbook of 2010
  • "Highly recommended if you're looking for a sweets book...As ever, superb and recommended." --Michael Ruhlman
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