Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts

Description

This title features the simplest, smartest, most flavourful, fail-proof, and pain-free dessert recipes ever. It is an answered prayer for all cooks who love great food but chafe at having to measure out a slew of ingredients and follow fussy and overcomplicated recipes. Among the 100 recipes, there's Ice Creams without and Ice Cream Maker, Layer Cakes for the Reluctant, The Best One-Bowl Chocolate Cake, and Press-In Pies. Plus there are hundreds of fabulous ideas for what to do with a bar of chocolate, fresh cheese, dried fruit, fresh strawberries, gingerbread, amaretti etc. There are even desserts that don't involve cooking or baking. Plus all these spot-on combinations for which Alice Medrich is so well known: Grilled Pineapple with Coffee Ice Cream; Lemon-Scented Peach Crisp; Salted-Caramel Banana Bread Pudding; Coconut Pecan Torte; and many more.

Alice Medrich has won more cookbook-of-the-year awards and best in the dessert and baking category awards than any other author. She received her formal training at the prestigious cole Len tre in France and is credited with popularizing chocolate truffles in the United States when she began making and selling them at her influential Berkeley dessert shop, Cocolat. She has devoted much of her career to teaching and sharing her expansive knowledge about baking. Find her on Instagram and Twitter @alicemedrich.

"Effortless sophisticated desserts. . . . perfect for short-staffed dinner parties and midweek dessert cravings."