Sweet [electronic resource] : inspired ingredients, unforgettable desserts / Gordon Valerie.

ISBN:

9781579655952

Title:

Author:

Gordon, Valerie.

Personal Author:

Gordon, Valerie.

Publication Information:

New York : Artisan, 2013.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

Introduction -- Pedestal: Celebration Desserts -- Blum's Coffee Crunch Cake -- Chasen's Banana Shortcake -- Bullocks Wilshire Coconut Cream Pie -- The Brown Derby Grapefruit Cake -- Fruitcake Noir -- Fruitcake Blanc -- Pumpkin Cheesecake with Gingersnap Crust -- Goat-Cheese Cheesecake with Almond Crust -- White Chocolate Coconut Cake -- Scandia's Apple Cake -- Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting -- Butter Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting -- A Cake for Alice -- Plate: Everyday Cakes

Vanilla Bean Cake -- Golden Butter Cake with Berries and Mascarpone Frosting -- Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream -- Rose Petal Cake -- Champagne Cake -- Hazelnut Cake -- Lavender Earl Grey Mini-Cakes with Lemon Ganache -- Matcha Mini-Cakes with Lemon Verbena Ganache -- Rose Petal Petits Fours -- Ginger Petits Fours -- Tin: Pies and Tarts -- Quince and Pear Pie -- Lattice-Topped Berry Pie -- Cherry-Vanilla Bean Pie -- Winter Luxury Pumpkin Pie -- Blackberry-Mango Curd Pie -- Plum and Marzipan Crumble Pie -- Valentine's Pie""

Strawberry Hand Pies -- Blueberry-Vanilla Cream Hand Pies -- Apricot-Basil Cream Galettes -- Berry-Basket Galette -- Apple-and-Caramel Aged Gouda -- Crostata Cherry Frangipane Tart -- Fruit and Cream Tart -- Box: Chocolates and Confections -- Berry Mendiants -- Raspberry, Black Sesame, and Matcha Mendiants -- Almond, Black Fig, and Urfa Biber Mendiants -- Peppermint Bark -- Durango Bark -- Chocolate-Dipped Coffee Crunch -- Almond Fleur de Sel Toffee -- Pumpkin Seed Toffee -- Mint Toffee -- Fleur de Sel Truffles -- Black Pepper Truffles

Single-Malt-Scotch Truffles -- Creme Frache Truffles -- Raspberry Truffles -- Caramels with Gray Sea Salt -- Meringues -- Chocolate Marshmallows -- Bowl: Desserts to Eat With a Spoon-- Black-and-Blue Fool -- Eton Mess -- Champagne Gelee -- Fraises des Bois Mousse -- Jasmine Panna Cotta -- Chocolate Pots de Creme -- Matcha Pots de Creme -- Tiramisu Trifle -- Salted Caramel Pudding Parfaits -- Angelino Plum Ice Cream -- Blenheim Apricot Ice Cream -- Cocktail-Grapefruit and Champagne Sorbet -- Cucumber, Lime, and Mint Sorbet

Jar: Cookies and Bars -- Durango Cookies -- Gingersnap Cookies -- Matcha White Chocolate Macadamia Cookie -- Oatmeal Raisin Cookies -- Snowballs (Mexican Wedding Cookies) -- Sugar Cookies -- Chocolate Cookies -- Coconut-Finger Lime Cookies -- Classic Shortbread -- Almond Shortbread -- Brownies -- Caramelized Crispies -- Salted-Peanut Blondies -- Larder: Jams and Marmalades -- Strawberryâ€?Vanilla Bean Jam -- Strawberry Rhubarb Jam -- Blushing Berry Jam -- Black-and-Blue Jam -- Blenheim Apricot Jam -- Apricot and Rainier Cherry Jam

White Nectarine and Lemon Verbena Jam

Subject Term:

Confectionery.

Desserts.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2013

Publication Information:

New York : Artisan, 2013.

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Shelf Number	Material Type	Copy	Shelf Location	Status
641.86 GOR	1:E-BOOK	1	1:ONLINE	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Finalist, James Beard Foundation Award, Baking & Dessert (2013)

Since 2003, Valerie Gordon has provided Angelenos with award-winning sweets and baked goods from her boutique in Silverlake and her booths at the Santa Monica and Hollywood farmers' markets. With two restaurants opening in 2013 and this comprehensive cookbook filled with her beloved recipes, now even more people can eat and bake the Valerie way. Favorite desserts like petits fours, cakes, truffles, and cookies have been perfected with the addition of candied rose petals, atomized chocolate, fleur de sel, matcha tea, and other special ingredients. Valerie re-creates desserts from Los Angeles's lost restaurants such as Chasen's and the Brown Derby; she simplifies the process of making jam; she provides an accessible way to mix and match components so readers can design their own luscious cakes and pies. Filled with helpful tricks, recipes for a range of tastes, and gorgeous full-color photographs, Sweet is destined to become every baker's favorite cookbook

Author Notes

From a childhood love of sweets, Valerie Gordon developed a lifelong passion for baking. After spending her formative culinary years working in restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles, she opened Valerie Confections with her partner, Stan Weightman Jr., in 2003. Valerie has been featured in Vogue , House & Garden , Newsweek , InStyle , USA Today , Bon Appétit , Food & Wine , and The Splendid Table , and on Unique Eats on Cooking Channel. Valerie and Stan live in Los Angeles with their two children, August and Lee.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Gordon, founder of the acclaimed Valerie's Confections, shares her passion for creating high-quality pastries and candies. Full-color photographs highlight the simple beauty of Gordon's creations, which can be mastered by the home cook with a little effort. Recipes are divided into celebration and everyday cakes, pies, tarts, chocolates, confections, cookies, bars, spoon desserts, and jams, offering a varied mix of fruity, buttery, and chocolaty treats. In addition to painstakingly recreating once-famed but now-extinct desserts like Blum's Coffee Crunch Cake, Chasen's Banana Shortcake, and Bullocks's Wilshire Coconut Cream Pie, Golden shares homey favorites such as lattice-topped berry pie, classic shortbread, and brownies. Her jasmine panna cotta, chocolate pot de creme, and tiramisu trifle are simply mouthwatering, as are her coconut-finger lime cookies and salted-peanut blondies. Golden's confections are also truly exceptional and include almond fleur de sel toffee, chocolate-dipped coffee crunch, and single-malt-scotch truffles. To help the less practiced achieve more professional results, Golden offers helpful hints on everything from cake building and petit fours to tempering chocolate and working with dough. She also provides a useful section on ingredients and equipment that make for a well-stocked baking kitchen. This thoroughly delightful collection is a must-have for baking and confectionary enthusiasts everywhere. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.