2024 the best dessert recipes review

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • IACP AWARD FINALIST • A simple, stylish cookbook full of desserts that come together faster than you can eat them—from the author of Dining In and Nothing Fancy.

“Filled with no-fuss recipes perfect for quick and easy baking projects . . . blissfully effortless.”—People

A BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, Vice
 
Casual, effortless, chic: These are not words you’d use to describe most desserts. But before Alison Roman made recipes so perfect that they go by one name—The Cookie, The Pasta, The Lemon Cake—she was a restaurant pastry chef who spent most of her time learning to make things the hard way. She studied flavor, technique, and precision, then distilled her knowledge to pare it all down to create dessert recipes that feel special and approachable, impressive and doable. In Sweet Enough, Alison has written the book for people who think they don’t have the time or skill to pull off dessert. Here, the desserts you want to make right away, you can make right away. 

Alison shows you how to make simple yet sublime sweets with her trademark casualness, like how to make jam in the oven, then turn that jam into a dessert—swirled into ice cream or folded into easy one-bowl cake batter. (Opening a jar of jam is more than fine, too.) She waxes poetic on the virtues of frozen fruit and teaches you the best way to throw your own Sundae Party. There are effortless cakes that take just minutes to get into a pan. And there are new, instant classics with a signature Alison twist, like Salted Lemon Pie, Raspberries and Sour Cream, Toasted Rice Pudding, or a Caramelized Maple Tart. Requiring little more than your own two hands and a few mixing bowls, the recipes are geared towards those without fancy equipment or specialty ingredients.

Whether you’re a dedicated baker or, better yet, someone who doesn’t think they are a baker, Sweet Enough lets you finish any dinner, any party, or any car ride to a dinner party with a little something wonderful and sweet.

From the Publisher

Double Crusted Pie

Thin Maple Pancakes

Tomato Tart

Bonnie’s Upside Down Pineapple Cake

Birthday Cookies

Cold Carrot Cake

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarkson Potter (March 28, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984826395
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984826398
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.9 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.29 x 1.04 x 10.28 inches
Reviewer: Curious Epicure
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Let's Just Make Everything in This Book
Review: First of all, I will buy any cookbook that Alison Roman writes. Her idea that imperfection and cooking can absolutely co-exist has made me love cooking again. Her easy, do-able recipes and forgiving style not only allows for improvisation, but invites it. And you know what? It works!If you, like me, were already a fan of Alison Roman via her first two books, her deservingly viral #thestew, and/or her jammy, umami-packed reductions, then I'm going to bet that you will also love this book. The same easy, casual vibe that accompanied the recipes in her first two books is here too.Casualness in baking is often frowned upon because it is thought, mostly correctly, that measurements must be fairly precise in order for cakes and breads to rise, but in these recipes, Roman tells you when it's okay to be more relaxed and when it's not. The (Cottage) Cheese Cake recipe, for example, suggests browning the butter that goes into it, or not, because it will turn out fine either way and it just depends on whether or not the baker wants to go to the trouble of babysitting browning butter or not.The first recipe I tried was the (Cottage) Cheese Cake with Apricots. I used the suggested ricotta cheese and chose peaches for the fruit. (For the record, I did brown the butter because it has worked so well in other Roman recipes.) The cake turned out deliciously even though the peaches my husband brought home were not anywhere near their prime. Instead of getting mad at my husband and fretting that the cake would be a disaster, I just thought "fine, it will somehow be fine." And it honestly was. And my guests loved it!My second pick was A Better Banana Bread. I've made a bunch of banana breads this year and thought I had already found a great one from Ruth Reichl, but this beat it. A friend who had liked Reichl's so much that she asked for the recipe, agreed that this one beat it. The crispy crust is what did it for me.Then my curiosity won out with the Creamy Cauliflower Galette, one of several non-dessert recipes in the book. Very delicious - with leeks, cheddar and cream as the supporting cast. Definitely a make again for lunch guests with a green salad. Quite yummy and far from the same old, same old.Next, I'm eyeing the Chocolate Sour Cream Pound Cake because of my wildly positive experiences with previous Roman recipes featuring chocolate in which strangers at parties have sought me out to ask where I got the recipe. I had rarely been that person before Roman.If it isn't clear (lol), I really like this book. If you like desserts that are so sweet that your teeth want to fall out, this is not that book. But if you want to make easy, slightly different desserts in a relaxed manner that everybody will love, teeth and all, I have yet to find a better one than this.

Reviewer: Vicky L
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The perfect cookbook for novice bakers like myself
Review: I am exactly Alison's target demographic with this book - I thoroughly enjoy challenging myself with new savory recipes but have never really had an inclination to make desserts until now. I have already made four desserts from this book and am eagerly gearing up for more, a once unthinkable urge for me. When I successfully made her pie crust, I felt like a wizard. Each one of her recipes has been a banger and I've also received rave reviews from my friends who have tried the desserts. I appreciate how clear the instructions are and how the recipes are paced to make the process as efficient as possible (and that she points out stopping points along the way). For a dessert book, it overall does not require lots of specialized equipment which I as a member of the Small Kitchen Gang very much appreciate. On a superficial note, the book itself is beautiful - the photos look like they came out of a fashion spread (in a good way) and her writing is incredibly personable and witty. 100/10 would recommend to my fellow baking novices.

Reviewer: Cathy B
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lovely, lovely book. Just the Ricotta Cake recipe is worth buying this book for.
Review: This is a great cookbook, have so far only made the Ricotta Cake over and over and over. Simple and one will have most of the ingredients, at least for the Ricotta Cake.

Reviewer: Victoria
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Simple Yet Fantastic Recipes
Review: I bought this book on a whim, when normally I would wait for some reviews. I'm so glad I didn't wait. Her recipes are fairly simple, ingredients aren't outlandish, and it was quick to put together. I really enjoyed the ones I've made so far!The chocolate sour cream pound cake was superb. I was surprised at how simple the recipe was. And it was in fact buttery, chocoately, and rich. I couldn't stop eating it. I also made the chocolate pudding (don't mind the less then appetizing photo). My husband and I couldn't stop taking spoonfuls of it. It was that good.I can't wait to make more recipes! I do enjoy the little section of each recipe that tells you what to eat it with. Will be making more recipes soon (specifically the cottage cheese Apricot cake)Edit: I've made the banana caramel from the banana split ice cream cake. It is dangerously good. I got a little lazy and just made an ice cream sundae with the banana caramel. It was excellent. Also made the yellow cake with tangy chocolate frosting. The yellow cake was fine, just a perfectly normal yellow cake. The frosting stood out for us though. Not too sweet but still a good texture and delicious.

Reviewer: Yachats
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellently written
Review: I was pleasantly surprised at how thorough and detailed each recipe is. I haven’t made many of the recipes yet but the ones I’ve tried have turned out perfect.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great cookbook with some unique recipes that I have been able to share with my neighbors.
Review: Great book - borrowed from the my library. I tried a number of the recipes. After testing those I had to by it for myself- it has some great summer ideas!

Reviewer: LC
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pure pleasure, an anti-perfectionist's dream
Review: Alison is really good at this. Fun, sensual photography, beautiful design (not overly stylized like so many cookbooks lately), and honest writing that really captures her voice and point of view. I love cooking and own many great baking cookbooks that are dusty on my shelves because opening them means taking on a project. Nothing in this book is a project, everything is simple and basic - but not at all boring. Lots of very luscious-looking desserts with less than 4-5 steps. I also appreciate that these are not "light" desserts - there's sugar and butter and so much cream - but there's lots of flexibility to add and substitute according to your preferences. If you identify more as a cook than a baker, you don't enjoy trying to bake something that looks like it's meant for a display case, and you prefer desserts that lean savory, salty, tangy, and/or fruity, this is the book for you.

Reviewer: Hood
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I love Alison Romans cookbooks. I have bought the last two and have a long distance cooking date with one of my best friends about once a month and we are currently baking our way through the recipes in the middle of heat waves because we want to try all the cakes! Highly recommend all her cookbooks and this one is no different. The styling of the book is also amazing, so different from the rest, I am sure it will inspire copycats.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: My oldest daughter bought this book and her sister admired it, so I bought it for her birthday, She is so happy!! I'll enjoy it too because when she makes recipes she shares the sweets with me.

Reviewer: Jane Mundy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: As a cookbook writer I am fussy but every recipe that Alison Roman creates is easy and gives the wow effect

Reviewer: Bev Morrison
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Her best work yet. The recipes are amazing, and the graphics are top notch. Would highly recommend this book (and her others) to anyone.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Love the images and layout—recipes are simple enough that you can make them on a weeknight or for last minute company.