"Renowned for its beautiful pastries, Miette Patisserie is a beloved San Francisco Bay Area culinary destination. Following in the footsteps of this region's extraordinary food movement, Miette has been baking with organic ingredients for over twenty years. Inspired by classic French pastry and iconic American layer cakes, Miette has created a style that is fresh, distinct, and exquisitely crafted. The Miette cookbook was first published in 2012 and...

The acclaimed bakers and authors of Baked return with an inventive array of treats to make any celebration even sweeter. Celebrating a year in desserts, BAKED's beloved duo Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito offer cookies, puddings, whoopie pies, cakes, brownies, and more to commemorate holidays both expected and unexpected. You'll discover creative treats like Rum-infused Hair of the Dog Cake for New Year's Day and Peanut Butter Sheet Cake for Texas...

Incredible desserts with layers and swirls of flavor that are beautiful and delicious-inside and out When you marble, layer, and swirl doughs, batters, toppings, or frostings, good looks and good taste come together in one total package. Irvin Lin, creator of the popular blog Eat the Love, shows how these techniques open the door to inventive flavor combinations that look as fantastic as they taste. Bakers of all levels will enjoy recipes ranging...

400 star-spangled, razzle-dazzle recipes for America's best loved desserts.

Lou Seibert Pappas brings simple elegance to home entertaining in this delightful guide to creamy and crispy creme brulee. Whether classic, fruity, chocolatey, nutty, or savory, these easy-to-follow recipes add a fine finale to any meal. By mixing new flavors with just a few basic ingredients, first-time cooks and experienced chefs alike can serve showstoppers like Balsamic-Blackberry Creme Brule made with Greek-style yogurt, or tartly sweet Cranberry-Orange...

In I Scream Sandwich!, cookbook author Jennie Schacht redefines this hugely popular sweet treat and shows us how it can easily be the star of a dinner party, child's birthday bash, family picnic, or just a lazy summer afternoon. The book includes a variety of ice cream sandwich recipes, from the classic (chocolate cookie bars with vanilla ice cream), to the exotic (kaffir lime and lemongrass sorbet on five-spice cookies), to the seasonal (blackberry-buttermilk...

Dunk, Dip and Enjoy Doughnuts • Photo of Every Recipe Yes, they are fun to dunk in your coffee, but these doughnuts are more than just dipping treats-they are great on their own. Try Baked Blueberry-Orange Doughnuts or Caramel-Pretzel Doughnuts any time of day, and Lemon-Filled Doughnuts or Churros will hit the spot for dessert. These twenty inventive doughnuts will round out any snack or meal nicely.

Do opposites really attract? In the case of salty and sweet, you bet they do! Like peanut butter and jelly - itself a classic salty-sweet duo - these tastes were made for each other. Salt helps balance and heighten sweets, transforming ordinary candies into truly special confections. It brings out the complexities of chocolate, highlights the subtleties of fruit, makes nuts really pop, and turns caramel and butterscotch into pure ambrosia. The salty-sweet...

Creative desserts and snacks for cereal lovers Everybody loves cereal, whether is it floating in a big bowl of milk or straight out of the box. In Cereal Sweets & Treats, Jessica Segarra takes her passion for cereal one step further to satisfy both young and old sweet-tooth cravings by turning these sugary little bits of crunchy heaven into, dare we say, guilt-free desserts and snacks featuring bars, cakes, muffins, candies, cookies, and frozen treats....

Witty, one-of-a-kind, imaginative cupcake designs using candies from the local convenience store, no baking skills or fancy pastry equipment required. Spotting the familiar items in the hundreds of brilliant photos is at least half the fun. America's favorite food photography team shows how to create funny, scary, and sophisticated masterpieces using a ziplock bag and common candies and snack items. With these easy-to-follow techniques, even the most...