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Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes [A Baking Book] Kindle Edition

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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.

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Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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"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, The Best Cookbooks of 2010: Best Dessert
"David Lebovitz, blogging phenom and former pastry chef at Chez Panisse has written several cookbooks, but this might be his best yet. It's a compilation of all his favorites--from ice cream to cookies to cake and fruit desserts. You will also enjoy the notes with each recipe that tell stories, share tips and often produce giggles. Why? You've read his blog, and probably tried his recipes for free. Now it's time to pay the man!"
--Cooking with Amy, Top Cookbooks 2010, 12/18/10
"If there's one person you can trust to write a good recipe, it's David. My copy of Ready for Dessert is already dogeared and vandalized with all manner of sweet ingredients. His chocolate chip cookies are my go-to and hi --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

About the Author

David Lebovitz is a pastry chef, author, and creator of the award-winning food blog www.davidlebovitz.com. Trained as a baker in France and in Belgium, he worked for twelve years in the pastry department at the famed Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California. Room for Dessert, his first book, was an International Association of Culinary Professionals award nominee. He is also the author of The Sweet Life in Paris and The Perfect Scoop. David writes, blogs, and leads culinary tours from his home in Paris, France. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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File size : 76080 KB
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 517 pages
Publisher : Ten Speed Press (5 October 2010)
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
Language: : English
ASIN : B00444597C

Best Sellers Rank: 548,675 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 61 in Dessert & Sweets Cooking
- 125 in Confectionary Desserts
- 261 in Cooking, Food & Wine Reference (Kindle Store)

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Mehitabel in Dorset

What fun!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2017

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I have spent the last few days reading, yes, reading this book. It is amusing and informative. I have placed so many post its on pages where I want to try the recipe, the book looks like a hedgehog. The recipes look delicious and instructions are very clear. All American, yet French, the cakes and cookies are full of my favorite ingredients, nuts, seeds, fruit and chocolate. Several ice cream, sorbet and frozen yogurt recipes seem easy and a perfect complement to cakes or poached fruits. I can't wait to start cooking. David Lebovitz could be my friend for life.

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Its a fair price for a beautifully produced hardback

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2014

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A fabulous book by a chef whose recipes and advice I trust. Its a fair price for a beautifully produced hardback; there is a lack of photographs for each dish, but that's a minor irritation and more photos would have raised the price of the book.

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Daniel Ungureanu

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 April 2018

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A must have for a bakery or even for a hobby!

Tanyaaaa

I love this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2015

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I love this book, and all of David Lebovitz's writing. Great recipes, have tried out a few already - clear and easy to follow.

J. Roveto

Somewhat disappointed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2015

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My favorite Lebovitz recipe, an orange, almond cake is not in the book; and there are too many frozen desserts. I don't own, nor want to own an ice cream maker.

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