2024 the best desserts review

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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.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1607743655
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press; Updated edition (September 18, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781607743651
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1607743651
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.51 x 0.94 x 10.01 inches
Reviewer: neuronsong
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Duh. It’s a best recipes book. I think I have them all.
Review: Heavily biased in favor of best recipes books. I mean… they are the best… and it shows.

Reviewer: Leticia M. Broome
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I want to make everything!
Review: I got my copy yesterday and made three recipes today. The brownies are easily the best I've ever had; my 7 year old ate three! The Ginger Cake is sublime, I can't wait for it to cool and ripen a bit, but I am having it with my morning coffee. And I made the chocolate chip cookie dough and it is light and smells like heaven, but it's having its 24 hour rest before I bake some up. I am just sorry I waited to long to get a copy because I want to try everything already. The instructions are clear, and I like the commentary before the recipes. This book is worth buying for the brownies alone. Holy cow!

Reviewer: emc
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love David and his recipes!
Review: Since I bought "Ready for Dessert" I have purchased a great number of other dessert books, but David's is still one of my very favorites. His recipes are interesting and unusual, and I have yet to make one that I didn't love (my favorite is the ginger cake - incredibly moist and flavorful). Most of the recipes are relatively straightforward to make, and the section on "extras" like sauces and caramels gives you a nice option of dressing up your dessert if you have the time and energy. I also love to read David's little introductions to each of his recipes; he's always charming and funny. If you're looking for a great dessert book with a wide range of recipes, from cookies to souffles to caramel sauces, "Ready for Dessert" is it!

Reviewer: Amit K.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice ideas, great writing, can use some more pictures
Review: I'm amongst those who need a picture to be attracted to a recepie and the picture to recepie ratio of this book is pretty limited.

Reviewer: Nathan R. Higgins
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A must buy for your library.
Review: The desserts in this book are, simply put, magical. My wife and I have enjoyed reading through the book, nearly cover to cover. So far, after a week of service, we've made (and eaten) the ginger cake and have our sights set on the bahamian rum cake. I get so excited about the desserts in this book because A) This guy lives/eats/breathes desserts; B) he isn't afraid to cut down on the sugar; and C) he isn't afraid to throw some grown-up spice into the dishes. What does that mean? Alcohol? Absolutely! Black pepper? Sounds alluring!At this point, if I only had one dessert cookbook, this would be it. Vibrant, risky, and creative flavors make it a keeper.

Reviewer: rodboomboom
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Who Isn't Ready for This Dessert Collection?
Review: Unaware of Lebovitz till obtaining this cookbook, I was stunned by its diversity and creativity. It is right up my dessert alley, having a nice selection of what I like to make, with lots of tarts, pies, sorbets, crisps and cobblers, many of them fruit laden. The author describes this as the best of his repoitoire and then some additions and corrections.I have had time to experience three of a mounting list of the "have to try" category: Pear Tart with Brown Butter, Rum and Pecans; Red Wine-Raspberry Sorbet and Banana Butterscotch Cream Pie (which uniquely has an unbelievably good toffee smoothness and taste with its chocholate-cookie crust. These were not that difficult to pull off and had amazing success and raving compliments from guest diners. That makes about 167 more recipes to try!It comes with excellent sections on ingredients and equipment, along with tips and alternatives on many recipes, all with Ten Speed's 'par-for-the-course' nice large format and exquisite color photos of most of the dishes.Sure to become one of my go-to's for great dessert!

Reviewer: Jon A. Gabriel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Maida Heatter's Successor
Review: I loved this book, and found it so intelligently laid out,written and recipe tested that I believe that David Lebovitz to be the go-to guy for dessert cookbooks(much like Maida Heatter). I have not stopped thinking about the Racines Cake since making it a week ago(it was gone in 2 days). All of these recipes are skillfully written and seem to be well tested and just plain taste great. Mazel tov to you,David,and thanks.

Reviewer: Zeni
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I'm not very happy with it
Review: Meeh. I was expecting a lot from this book because of David Lebovitz. However, I'm not very happy with it. I'm not a professional baker, I'm a home baker. I just enjoy baking, so I have a lot of cookbooks that I try new recipes every day. I tried 2 recipes from this book, one of them was pavlova and the other one was creme caramel. both of them didn't worked out. they were both delicious but their texture was not right. even though they tasted really good, my pavlova was so flat and my creme caramel was so liquid. After these tries, I stopped bothering with this book. Maybe it's something I did, I don't know but I never had this kind of situation before with my other cookbooks. And another thing about this book that didn't fit me was that there are really few photos. Since I'm not a pro, I'd like to see what the product should look like in the end. Some recipes have photos, some don't so it wasn't for me.

Reviewer: GISELE VEIGA RAVAZZI
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A falta de imagens é um abuso. Receitas ótimas, mas livros de receitas precisam de fotos! É importante ver o final do prato, montagem, ingredientes finalizados!

Reviewer: marta
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Le ricette sono molto buone e funzionano benissimo anche se ha pochissime foto

Reviewer: Laura P. P.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Las recetas salen bien, el único pero que le pongo es que la sección de chocolate contiene pasteles que son demasiado densos, casi como un pudín. De cualquier forma es uno de mis chefs favoritos.

Reviewer: Mehitabel in Dorset
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: 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.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This ebook keeps crashing the app. It's stuck on page 7, and from what I can tell, it's the only page that's downloaded. I have tried sending feedback, but that doesn't seem to work either.