 | WEINER & ALBRIGHT Price: $5.95 |
 | Mmmm... imagine all that yummy ice cream just waiting to get yummier. All it takes is some store-bought ice cream and this fantastic little book to churn out 65 sweet sensations worthy of dinner parties, birthday celebrations, and unexpectedly fancy treats any day of the week. These cool ideas for layering cakes, filling pies, blending frothy shakes, and stacking sandwiches will have jaws dropping and spoons lifting all around the table. And in the quick-fix category, scoop up some of these scrumptious sundae suggestions--they rival the best ice cream parlor in town. With beautiful photographs and a neopolitan design, this creamy treat is as easy on the eyes as it is deliciously inspiring. List Price: $ Price: $11.86   |
 | Designed for the busy home cook, Food Made Fast is the latest collectible series from Williams-Sonoma. Using a straightforward approach to everyday cooking, Food Made Fast is about delicious food, simply prepared, with easy-to-follow recipes and tips. Each book emphasizes keeping a well-stocked pantry, planning ahead, and using fresh ingredients as the keys to cooking delicious meals with a minimum of time and effort. Dedicated to a single subject--from Soup to Pasta to Weeknight--each volume makes it simple to plan, cook, and enjoy great-tasting food throughout the week. The recipes are both simple and inspired, making quick cooking a truly satisfying experience. List Price: $ Price: $11.66 |
 | Sugar Sisters is the only all-in-one dessert guide any chick in the kitchen will ever need. Stay in your pajamas all day and warm up your taste buds with the sinful Bad Girl Brownies or don your sophisticated apron and wow your friends with a decadent Red Velvet Cake. The delicious sweets may look, taste, and smell complicated, but the recipes are easy to follow and fun to create. Brimming with both classic confections and current creations, the Sugar Sisters bakery includes Let Them Eat Cake, Fruity Favorites, Calling All Chocoholics, One Smart Cookie. And they won’t keep you overtime in the kitchen! List Price: $ Price: $6.96 |
 | One of a unique collection of seventeen beautifully hardbound, single-topic cookbooks from the publisher of Cook's Illustrated, the magazine with a reputation for fanatical kitchen testing of recipes, ingredients, equipment and culinary techniques. In each slim volume, months of testing are pared down into simple advice on which methods work best to cook the foods everyone loves most. In this volume: You can make perfect fruit crisp, cobbler, or shortcake - no more tough crusts, soggy toppings or runny fillings. List Price: $ Price: $11.96 |
 | Gooey, fudgy, flavored with chocolate chips, coconut, or nuts, frosted or enjoyed as is, who doesn't enjoy brownies? There are old-time classics like Chocolate Syrup Brownies and Butterscotch Brownies and Fruitcake Brownies, plus a whole chapter on blondies and easy frostings. Short on time? Turn to the doctored up brownie mix recipes that include innovative ideas for Baked Alaska, Black Forest Cake, and even S'mores. With thousands of variations, for each basic recipe, here are a lifetime of brownie recipes! List Price: $ Price: $11.86 |
 | Who says a pie must be perfect to be a perfectly delicious pie? Not Pat Willard, who got her first introduction to pie baking at the BarTen Restaurant in Ravenna, Ohio, where baking great pies was no big deal. Now the waitress-turned-writer shares her recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert pies, stories and reflections on the great American pie tradition, and comprehensive, step-by-step instructions to take the fear out of making crust. Pie Every Day includes: - Breakfast pies - from Rustic Fruit Tart to Potato and Egg Pie - Quickie pies - from Bittersweet Lemon Tart to Apple Crisp - Pies for kids - from Banana Bundles to Individual Mud Pies - Fancy little pies for hors d'oeuvres - from Tartlets to Empanadas - Hefty main dish pies - from Hearty Beef to Supper Bowl Pork - Knock-'em-dead, labor-of-love pies -from Tiramisu Pie to Flaming Peach Pie List Price: $ Price: $6.98 |
 | There’s truly nothing sweeter than a homemade cookie, but when it’s creatively decorated, that cookie can become a tasty work of art. The Art of Cookies delivers an imaginative collection of decorating ideas and designs, focusing on themes such as birthdays, weddings, baby showers, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Easter. Be serious. Be whimsical. Be adventurous or traditional. Let your imagination go and your fingers fly. If it doesn’t turn out exactly right, who cares? Eat it and make another! The idea is to decorate, originate, elaborate—if it can be done on a canvas, it can be done on a cookie. Great art and great taste—what could be a better combination? List Price: $ Price: $11.16 |
 | A collection of more than 80 irresistible recipes for pies, cakes, cookies, and desserts from the legendary Good Housekeeping kitchens—recipes well known for their ease of preparation and great taste. From classics like Banana Cream Pie and Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting to new favorites like Espresso Cheesecake and Butterscotch Blondies, these are some of the best desserts the magazine has to offer. List Price: $ Price: $11.52 |
 | Chanterelle is a beloved, award-winning New York City restaurant that has been critically acclaimed since its founding 25 years ago. A great part of a perfect meal is one of the truly spectacular--yet comforting--desserts. Kate Zuckerman, Chanterelle's pastry chef, creates exquisite treats that draw upon her culinary travels all over the world and her vast experience as a four-star pastry chef in Boston, San Francisco, and New York. The Sweet Life offers not only detailed, delicious recipes for every kind of dessert from tarts and cakes to custards, soufflés, and frozen desserts, but also in-depth explanations of methods and of chemical changes that occur in baking, along with fascinating histories and descriptions of key ingredients. Zuckerman possesses the remarkable ability to create gourmet desserts that home cooks can actually craft in their own kitchens. Her warm, accessible tone will appeal to both the beginner and the advanced pastry cook. So whether making the Crispy, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies or the Cardamom and Honey Pistachio Nougat Glacé, readers will know they are in good, capable hands. Kate Zuckerman has been pastry chef at four-star restaurants such as Biba (Boston) and Firefly (San Francisco). Her desserts have been featured in the New York Times and Food & Wine. She lives in New York City. List Price: $ Price: $22.04 |