A dinner is never complete without desserts. Since not everyone of us are born domestic goddesses, here are dessert books that 8flo has selected to get you started.
Borrow these from the National Library
Bite-Size Desserts: Creating Mini Sweet Treats, from Cupcakes and Cobblers to Custards and Cookies
By Carole Bloom
Who can resist cute little tartlets and cupcakes? This book gives you the option of baking several items so that guests have a variety of desserts to choose from, or for when you’re feeling peckish and want desserts of small proportions. The author is a European trained pastry chef, as well as a media chef and celebrity judge. The recipes in this book are easy to follow and suitable for beginners, or leisure bakers. Filled with lots of glossy pictures of tantalizing desserts, this book doubles up as a great coffee table book to boot.
Paris Sweets: Great Desserts From the City’s Best Pastry Shops
By Dorie Greenspan
For those who seek a little more challenge in baking, care to try baking out some Parisian desserts? This quaint book, while lacking in colour pictures, contains recipes to all the classic French desserts like Madeleine cookies and Mille Feuille (also known as the Napoleon).
Take inspiration from Dorie Greenspan, who never started cooking until she was married – in fact, for someone with a doctorate in gerontology, she is now a food writer and cookbook author. In addition to her books, her blog is a very good resource for dessert inspiration and simple, easy-to-do recipes!
The Perfect Scoop: ice creams, sorbets, granitas, and sweet accompaniments
by David Lebovitz
Wouldn’t you be surprised to find out that you can make your very own ice-cream, without an ice-cream making machine?
The trick is in its freezing process – you need to take your batter out every hour to stir it, to prevent ice crystals from forming, and voila! Yes, it is going to be time-consuming because you need to be near your refrigerator for at least half a day- but we promise you it is very rewarding to scoop, serve and eat your own creamy delight homemade with love. This is what we learnt from this book.
This book also covers all the basics of making ice cream by hand – a really good resource for beginners. But of course, if you have a machine, all the more easier!
This book also covers the traditional flavours like vanilla, chocolate and butterscotch-pecan, it is the perfect resource for more exotic flavoured ice-creams like aztec “hot” chocolate, apricot-pistachio, and lavender-honey. There is also the Papaya-lime sorbet and mojito granite.
While The Perfect Scoop has received rave reviews as one of the must-haves for ice-cream making, There is some criticism that Lebovitz’s recipes tend to be too original, with flavours that alienate the masses, so if you’re looking for a friendlier alternative, this is Lebovtiz’s toughest competitor:
Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Ice-cream and dessert book
By Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield and Nancy Stevens
Meet the orginal Ben and Jerry’s. This is a classic American ice-cream recipe book. Colourful and fun, it almost looks like a kids’ story book. The recipies to your favourite Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream flavours like Chocolate Superfudge brownie and Cherry Garcia are all here – they even have a chapter solely devoted to chocolate ice-cream – perfect for chocoholics! Recipes are simple and straightforward.
Take caution, though! Unless you have an ice-cream maker, their book does tend to lack in cooking techniques so one might do well to research on ice-cream making techniques before tackling this book! - Next page
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