Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts: Quicker, Smarter Recipes

by Alice Medrich

Overview

The renowned chocolatier shares her tips and recipes for quick, smart and irresistible desserts—without hours of prep.

Known for her innovative chocolate creations, Alice Medrich now rewrites the dessert menu for cooks in search of totally doable desserts. In Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts, you'll find the quickest lemon tart, a lattice-free linzer, a one-bowl French chocolate torte, mousses to swoon over, and gooey pies with no-fault press-in crusts. There are even soufflés for beginners. And best of all, you won't need a rolling pin, a pastry brush, or the skills of a professional baker. 

Alice also shares more than 100 ideas for spur-of-the-moment desserts that don't involve baking, including imaginative ways to dress up a bar of chocolate, a pint of strawberries, a handful of dried fruit, fresh cheese, gingerbread, or amaretti. She even includes those spot-on combinations she’s famous for, such as Grilled Pineapple with Coffee Ice Cream, Lemon-Scented Peach Crisp, Salted-Caramel Banana Bread Pudding, and Coconut Pecan Torte.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781579655464
Publisher:	Workman Publishing
Publication date:	04/24/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	289
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Alice Medrich has won more cookbook-of-the-year awards and best in the dessert and baking category awards than any other author. She received her formal training at the prestigious École Lenôtre in France and is credited with popularizing chocolate truffles in the United States when she began making and selling them at her influential Berkeley dessert shop, Cocolat. She has devoted much of her career to teaching and sharing her expansive knowledge about baking. Find her on Instagram and Twitter @alicemedrich.
 

Editorial Reviews

Effortless sophisticated desserts. . . . perfect for short-staffed dinner parties and midweek dessert cravings.

From the Publisher

Inspired by a Parisian dessert of canned chestnut puree and packaged crème fraîche, veteran cookbook author Medrich here collects effortless, sophisticated desserts. Some recipes (e.g., Salted Caramel Banana Bread Puddings) are new, while others (e.g., Queen of Sheba Torte 5.0) are revisions of recipes included in previous titles. There's repetition—for instance, the "lickety-split cakes" are predominantly chocolate and nut tortes. This title adopts the same visual style and practical mindset as its predecessor, Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies, which won the 2011 IACP award for Best Baking Book. VERDICT An unintimidating, nearly fail-proof introduction to Medrich's titles that's perfect for short-staffed dinner parties and midweek dessert cravings.

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