Luscious Creamy Desserts


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Dozens of dessert recipes filled with melt-in-your-mouth goodness and tantalizing texture combinations! These scrumptious recipes are the latest mouthwatering morsels from Lori Longbotham, author of Luscious Chocolate Desserts and others in the popular cookbook series. This volume is filled with secrets of how to make rich, creamy cakes, puddings, frozen desserts, and more. The recipes celebrate that wonderful soft texture—but also contrast it with crisp additions of pralines, cookies, and nuts. For beginning bakers, Custard and Caramel 101 offers a basic guide laden with tips and techniques, making preparation as simple and quick as possible. Better-than-Classic Butterscotch Pudding, Lemon and Ginger Brioche Bread Pudding, and Grand Marnier Pots de Crème are just a few of the inventive goodies that are sure to delight friends, family, and guests.







Luscious Fruit Desserts


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A collection of simple recipes that will have you baking crowd-pleasing desserts with the freshest fruits all year long. Most fruit desserts, including the ones in this book, offer the benefit of being easy to make. They’re also good examples of the culinary principle that if you start with the finest ingredients and prepare them in ways that highlight their natural qualities, you’ll get outstanding results. With this easy-to-follow collection of recipes you’ll be churning out delicious fruit desserts year round. Battle the transitional temperatures of spring with strawberry-rhubarb coffee cake, raspberry gratin, gingered rhubarb crisp or an apricot-pistachio tart. They’ll be no suffering in the summer heat with little plum galettes, blueberry-cream cheese custard pie, black forest cake with fresh cherries, plum buckle or sour cherry pie. The arrival of fall may leave you pining for vacation days but with the help of roasted grape tartlets, quince tea cake, fresh fig galette, pumpkin-ginger cheesecake and pear-walnut sticky cake you won’t be pining for long. Finally, winter’s chill won’t leave slim pickings with options like cranberry-pecan pie, pineapple upside-down skillet cake, pumpkin moon pies with orange cream and chocolate-banana bread pudding. Williams-Sonoma Luscious Fruit Desserts also features a section on basic baking techniques, as well as full-color photos throughout.




Luscious and Creamy Dessert Classics


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Luscious Berry Desserts


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Sweetness is in season with over fifty recipes for berry-based treats in this colorful cookbook by the author of Luscious Lemon Desserts. This delightful cookbook is for anyone who’s ever snuck just the plumpest, ripest strawberry straight from the basket; believed raspberries should have their own special food group; and never met a blueberry they didn’t like. Each recipe is bursting with ideas for buying and trying every wonderful variety, be it sticky-sweet heart-shaped strawberries, deep purple boysenberries, or juicy ripe blackberries. Whether it’s creamy layers of brightly colored raspberry curd that transform a classic lemon cake into a visual masterpiece almost too gorgeous to eat (almost), a simple spoonful of cool and custardy blueberry pudding (with the added bonus of those healthy antioxidants), or a traditional and irresistible strawberry shortcake topped with a scoop of strawberry-orange sorbet, this is the ultimate ode to the berry. Also included are tips, tricks, and other techniques of the trade, such as pureeing berries and cutting out biscuits, to help your pound cake, tart, sauce, or ice cream comes out perfectly every time.




Luscious Lemon Desserts


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A cookbook for lemon lovers with more than seventy “mouthwateringly irresistible” dessert recipes (Publishers Weekly). Lemon sweets are the divas of desserts. Assertive and bold, lemons can be flamboyant, tart, and tangy as in the Lemon Granita or sweet, mellow, and velvety like the creamy Lemon Panna Cotta. Over seventy recipes—from the classics to lip-smacking new favorites—are enticingly presented in Luscious Lemon Desserts. These recipes vary from the simple to the sublime, from the quick and easy to the most elaborate showstoppers, whether it’s a fast and fabulous lemon pudding or a Mile-High Lemon Angel Food Cake. Former editor of Gourmet Lori Longbotham also provides great tips on buying, storing, and using this most popular fruit. “Longbotham’s splendid recipes are as fresh, bright, and zesty as the fruit she celebrates.” —Dorie Greenspan, author of Baking with Julia “This author knows her lemons and how to make them shine.” —San Francisco Chronicle “When life hands you lemons, lunge for this book!” —Tish Boyle, author of Diner Desserts




Luscious Chocolate Desserts


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“There’s no shortage of chocolate cookbooks out there, but this volume stands out for its user-friendly nature and the sheer deliciousness of its recipes.” —Publishers Weekly Sexy, rich, and good in bed—chocolate is the ultimate indulgence, and Luscious Chocolate Desserts is the ultimate chocolate cookbook. Lori Longbotham, bestselling author of Luscious Lemon Desserts, delivers more than 70 of the best recipes for tantalizing cakes, sumptuous tarts and pies, velvety puddings and souffles, plus melt-in-your-mouth cookies, ice cream, and candy. Recipes run from simple-to-prepare chocolate pound cake and chocolate mousse pie to more elaborate desserts such as chocolate profiteroles with chocolate ice cream and chocolate sauce and the decadent mocha tiramisu. For those who don’t know their cocoa from their cacao, this compendium for chocoholics also educates readers from bean to bar, including how to choose from the many forms of chocolate available in today’s markets, plus the basics of storing, chopping, melting, and—the best part—tasting them. It’s pure satisfaction for chocolate lovers everywhere. Make Bittersweet Chocolate Gelato * Perfectly Simple Dark Chocolate Tart * French Chocolate Macaroons * Chocolate Pecan Turtle Tart * Grilled Chocolate-Stuffed Bananas * and many more “I practically fell face first, mouth wide open into the gorgeous color photographs by William Meppem . . . Longbotham also provides a short discourse on the history of chocolate, a glossary, a section on chocolate’s connection to good health and a primer on tasting chocolate.” —San Diego Union Tribune




Puddin'


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The classic American treat finally gets its due: foolproof pudding recipes, from irresistible standards to inventive modern twists, by the chef and owner of New York City’s popular pudding destination. Puddin’ shares Clio Goodman’s secrets for re-creating—and improving on—your sweetest childhood memories. From grown-up renditions of snack-time favorites like Butterscotch Pudding (spiked with whiskey) to party-ready showstoppers like Banana Upside-Down Cake with Malted Pudding and summertime crowd-pleasers like Peanut Butter Fudge Pops and Peach Melba Parfaits, Puddin’ serves up luscious and decadent recipes for your every dessert whim. Along the way, Clio offers suggestions for adapting her pudding recipes—all of which are naturally gluten-free—for vegan and low-fat variations. And because creamy pudding just begs for a companion, Puddin’ also includes recipes for homemade toppings, such as Salted Caramel Sauce, Marshmallow Crème, and Brownie Crumbs, that can be mixed and matched with the puddings of your choice or incorporated into one of Clio’s signature parfaits. These surprisingly easy-to-execute pudding creations are destined to become staples of your dessert repertoire. Puddin’ is a celebration of an American classic. Praise for Puddin’ “Remarkably versatile . . . A superb single-subject dessert cookbook.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Unlock the secrets to divine creaminess. . . . This book has revisited and reinvented pudding in just about every imaginable form. Recipes are easy to follow and results could win you some delicious rewards.”—Eat Something Sexy “Clio Goodman has a talent for transforming simple, elemental ingredients into amazing desserts. Puddin’ brings back memories of simpler times, and coming back to pudding is a return to an elemental form of inspiration. These sweet treats are the ultimate in comforting indulgence.”—Ron Ben-Israel, host of Sweet Genius “Clio’s puddings are ethereal and utterly delicious. Her techniques are simple, but the magic is in the way she pairs unique ingredients in one little cup. Her puddings will dazzle any dinner party!”—Pichet Ong, pastry chef, author of The Sweet Spot, and judge of Sugar Dome




Luscious Coconut Desserts


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More than sixty sweet treats that offer vitamins, minerals, fiber—and a heavenly taste of the tropics. When you think of coconuts, what comes to mind? Paradise, of course! Toasted, sugared, creamy, or crunchy, nothing compares to the flavor of coconut. Lori Longbotham, former Gourmet editor and author of Luscious Lemon Desserts and Luscious Chocolate Desserts, now offers a taste of paradise with over sixty recipes for coconut-based cakes, tarts, cookies, custards, sauces, and candies. From classic coconut cream pie to Coconut Pistachio Baklava to Deep Dark Chocolate, Coconut, and Ginger Brownies, these recipes are proof that sweets can be nutritious—because coconut is high in fiber, rich with vitamins and minerals, and utterly indulgent.




Delicious Desserts


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