"A ... birthday party DIY-planning guide and cookbook for parents and kids, complete with 10 unique ways to thematically tie together party themes, activities, and creative cakes--fully illustrated with 4-color art as well as photographs"-- Provided by publisher.

Created by the award-winning pastry chef at New York City's renowned Chanterelle restaurant, this dessert cookbook offers delightful recipes for a plethora of sweet treats-from tarts and cakes to custards, souffls, and frozen desserts. 50 full-color photos. 15 line drawings.

Homemade desserts just got quicker, easier, and smarter Alice Medrich rewrites the dessert menu for cooks in search of totally doable desserts without hours of prep. In Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts, you'll find the quickest lemon tart, a lattice-free linzer (mixed entirely in the food processor), one-bowl French chocolate torte (yes, the real thing, but easier to make), imaginative ways with ice cream, chic puddings and mousses to swoon over,...

Holiday Cookies is the newest addition to the Artisanal Kitchen series, adapted from Chewy, Gooey, Crispy, Crunchy, Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies (Artisan, 2010) by Alice Medrich. Holiday Cookies provides dozens of foolproof recipes for cookies, bars, and savories of all textures, from simple holiday classics like Vanilla Bean Tuiles and Great Grahams to the more decadent Caramel Cheesecake Bars and Chunky Hazelnut Meringues. There are even some delicious...

Nothing makes a statement like a celebration cake, especially when you bake it from scratch. Cheryl and Griffith Day, New York Times bestselling authors and owners of Savannah's must-visit Back in the Day Bakery, touch all the high points of American cake magic-coconut, red velvet, carrot with cream cheese frosting, chocolate (both traditional and flourless), spice, angel food, and the essential pineapple upside-down- with 36 truly decadent, showstopping...

A year's worth of seasonal, creative, and easy-to-make sweet and savory crusted treats from the award-winning owner of a renowned Brooklyn bakery and bar. When Allison Kave turned her love of pies from a hobby into a career, she unleashed a decadent array of flaky fancies unlike any the world had ever seen. From traditional dough crusts to crumb crusts, fruit fillings to cloudlike creams, Kave's creations are the stuff pastry dreams are made of. Now,...

From sweet to savory and from breakfast to bedtime, apples take center stage in this fun volume. With recipes ranging from traditional apple pies and crisps to unexpected surprises like Ground Lamb Kebabs with Apple Mint Raita, this new edition of the best-selling classic has been completely revised and redesigned to feature more than 30 new apple-themed goodies. With plenty of vegan and gluten-free options, you'll be cooking apple-based dishes that...

The ultimate cookie cookbook, from best-selling author of The Baking Bible Rose Levy Beranbaum This is your must-have cookie book, featuring nearly every cookie imaginable, from rustic Cranberry Chocolate Chippers to elegant French macarons, and everything in between-simple drop cookies, rolled-and-cut holiday cookies, brownies and other bars, pretty sandwich cookies, luxurious frosted or chocolate-dipped treats, and much more. With legendary baker...

Take dessert from ordinary to extraordinary with 100 elegant spreads in “Dessert Boards”. The perfect blend of savory and sweet, this cookbook combines the charcuterie board craze with decadent desserts. Enjoy a wide array of delicious flavors-from fruity to creamy to crunchy-with impressive presentations. Step-by-step instructions make it simple to craft stunning creations. Inside you'll find: • 100 recipes for irresistible dessert spreads •...

A Greenwich Village landmark, Allysa Torey's Magnolia Bakery is the place to get all-American sweet treats. But you can't live on cupcakes alone-so when Allysa's at her country house in upstate New York, she turns to locally grown, seasonal ingredients to put together family-friendly meals packed with flavor and old-fashioned comfort food appeal. Now, in this full-color cookbook, she shares more than ninety of her favorite everyday recipes-and...