2024 the best dessert recipes review

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her first cookbook, Bon Appétit and YouTube star of the show Gourmet Makes offers wisdom, problem-solving strategies, and more than 100 meticulously tested, creative, and inspiring recipes.

IACP AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Bon Appétit • NPR • The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Salon • Epicurious

“There are no ‘just cooks’ out there, only bakers who haven't yet been converted. I am a dessert person, and we are all dessert people.”—Claire Saffitz

Claire Saffitz is a baking hero for a new generation. In Dessert Person, fans will find Claire’s signature spin on sweet and savory recipes like Babkallah (a babka-Challah mashup), Apple and Concord Grape Crumble Pie, Strawberry-Cornmeal Layer Cake, Crispy Mushroom Galette, and Malted Forever Brownies. She outlines the problems and solutions for each recipe—like what to do if your pie dough for Sour Cherry Pie cracks (patch it with dough or a quiche flour paste!)—as well as practical do’s and don’ts, skill level, prep and bake time, step-by-step photography, and foundational know-how. With her trademark warmth and superpower ability to explain anything baking related, Claire is ready to make everyone a dessert person.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarkson Potter (October 20, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984826964
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984826961
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.53 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.3 x 1.15 x 11.23 inches
Reviewer: Liv Martin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Yes, it’s a great book if you enjoy to challenge yourself a bit
Review: The directions are very clear and straightforward, and the ingredients are easy to find. I have very little experience in baking yet I baked a few things which I would feel comfortable to give out to family and friends.However there are times that the results are not as good as expected, and I learned that I need to follow all the steps thoroughly and the goal is still achievable. I am currently challenging myself to bake stuff that are “moderately” difficult according to the book, 3/5, with 5 being the very challenging level.Some recipes are very involved and took me many hours to work on, but the outcome is very rewarding. I still can’t make a lemon tart pie that can stay its shape after being cut, but the flavor is still great. I spent almost five hours on the babka recipe yesterday but it is literally the best bread I have had for a while.I bought a food processor and a Kitchen Aid mixer after I got this book. There are many many recipes in the book that needs these tools. There are desert that you can make without them, but they are mostly very basic (seedy breakfast muffins, pancakes, banana bread, chocolate chip cookies, etc). Don’t get me wrong, they are still great deserts, but this book can take you much further than that. If you are satisfied with those store mixes, and don’t like to get into much details, this book may not be a good choice for you.The author has a YouTube channel for this book that everyone can follow, if you are not sure about this book you can check out the video and get a feel of what you are getting into.I like Claire(the author)’s way of explaining things and not being too wordy, and I love her for being so simple yet being so articulate about every recipe.My husband’s only complaint about this book is he’s getting chubbier because he can’t stop eating the dessert I made. Lol.Update: I still love this book after 2 years. I have tried many more recipes since 2020, and there are still many more to try out. What I really love about the book is that it covers a wide variety of desserts from different regions of the world, like St. Louis butter cake, some Jewish recipes, some Italian recipes, and French recipes. I never failed any recipe I tried, because they are all tested by Claire before she put them in the book. The book holds up well after frequent use. I only wish the font could be bigger because even with my 20/20 vision sometimes I have to get really close to the book to make sure I’m reading it right. But I understand with all the instructions every recipe contains it’s hard to make the font bigger.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Unique desserts with the complexity I'm looking for
Review: I love this cookbook. It's unlike any other cookbook I've owned in that I want to make nearly everything in it. Why? Because the recipes are so unique, and because I've grown to trust Claire's tastes, which seem to be similar to my own – sweet but not too sweet, and plenty of fruit. I purchased this cookbook only a couple of months ago and have already made around a dozen recipes from it, two of them twice. The least interesting one for me was the chocolate chip cookies, but no surprises there. (I would have loved, actually, if she had given chocolate chip cookies some kind of fruity twist.)Even recipes I wasn't so sure about have turned out amazing. The halvah blondies are unique and savory and delicious. The rhubarb cake is perfectly sweet and sour.For anyone thinking of buying this book, the biggest things I'd say to look out for are that her time estimates don't seem to include mise en place (a big deal if you're measuring nearly twenty ingredients, like in the seedy blueberry muffins), and I don't always agree with her difficulty estimates either. The mango rice pudding cake, for example, calls for making both rice pudding and a caramel, and a caramel isn't easy until you know what you're doing. She rates it a 2 out of 5, whereas I'd rate it a 3. There are also a couple of typos (like the brownie recipe's water measurement, which is accurate by volume but not by weight), but it doesn't seem to be frequent.There are a few recipes in here that I never plan to touch, such as the fruit cake that takes two months. But for the most part, I'm baking from this book obsessively, and her YouTube channel contains so much helpful instruction

Reviewer: C B
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An Amazing Reference!
Review: I've followed Claire Saffitz's work for years, and I'm so thrilled that I've finally picked up her cook book! This book has such amazing recipes, but the ones I use the most are her bread recipes (ironic, since this is a dessert book). Her sour cream and chive rolls are a staple to bring to dinner parties, and my absolute favorite recipe is her foccacia. The book is worth it just to have one of the easiest, most flavorful focaccia recipes that gets requested by friends and family time and time again. Do not pass on this book!

Reviewer: Carrie Bryant
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Excellent like her other booksPictures of everything which is very important in a cook book!!!Great book

Reviewer: PH
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: O livro por si só é incrível, diversas receitas bem explicadas e com lindas imagens (muitas das receitas tem vídeos no youtube). A entrega foi perfeita, o livro chegou em ótimas condições dentro do prazo previsto

Reviewer: mina
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I've been baking Claire's youtube recipes for a while now so I wanted to buy her book. I baked the carrot cake yesterday and oh my goodness the cake is amazing so moist so rich so perfect. I cannot wait to make more stuff from this book

Reviewer: Ayşenur Ç.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Kitap çok kapsamlı detaylı ve harika tarifler barındırıyor. İçindekiler bölümü kategoriye göre ayrılmış. Ekipman ve gıda malzemeleri bölümü detaylıca anlatılmış. Her tarifin basında tarifin hangi mevsime uygun olduğu, toplam süresi, hazırlık süresi, zorluk derecesi ve kaç kişilik olduğu yazıyor. Her tarifte resim var ama çoğu tarif asamalı olarak resmedilmiş bu da daha kolay anlaşılmasını sağlıyor. Tarifler yazılırken yine asama olarka bölümlendirilmiş ve başlık atılmış. Alt kıskmlarında saklama kosulladına ilişkin not ve bazı acıklama bölümleri bulunuyor. Çogu tarifte ceşitlendirme/varyasyon bölümü de var. Örnegin pastacı kremasını Hindistan cevizli pastacı kreması,çikolatalı pastacı kreması olarak varyasyon sekli de verilmiş. Kitapta en sevdiğim şey açıklayıcı olması ve temel tarifler için ayrı bir bölüm olması. Temel tarifler ise daha çok fotoğraf barındırıyor. Başta bir zaman ve zorluk çizelgesi var tüm tariflerin içinde bulunduğu bir tablo.Kitabın sevmediğim tek bir yönü var o da fırın ısıları Fahreinayt olarak verilmiş yanına C derece cinsi yazılabılırdı. Onun dısında harika bir kitap.

Reviewer: Fredric Thulin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Mycket nöjd med leverans och produkt 🙏