Essential Pepin Desserts : 160 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food

Pie or pastry, fruit or frozen, homey or haute cuisine160 recipes for sweet treats from the legendary James Beard Awardwinning chef. For over four decades, French culinary master Jacques Pepin has been delighting taste buds and teaching home cooks how to dazzle their loved ones with classic and innovative recipes alike. Now collected together in one volume are Pepin's best confections from his long and luminous career in cooking. Essential Pepin Desserts is filled with unbelievable treats, from Fruit Desserts (such as Apple Fritters and Cold Peach Soup); to Puddings, Sweet Souffles, and Crepes (including Chocolate Mousse and Baked Alaska); to Cakes, Cookies, and Candies (like Orange Tuiles and Candied Citrus Peels); to Tarts, Pies, and Pastries (with Tarte Tatin and Croquembouche); to Frozen Desserts (featuring Blood Orange Sorbet and French Vanilla Ice Cream). Sprinkled with Pepin's time-honored tips on how to master each technique, this is the dessert cookbook every baking aficionado needs in his or her collection.