Desserts

By Michel Roux

Book Overview

A comprehensive and gorgeous desserts cookbook from acclaimed chef Michel Roux

In Desserts, the author of the widely acclaimed cookbooks Eggs and Pastry returns with an exhaustive collection of sweet delights, from simple mousses and biscuits to advanced petit fours and homemade chocolates. Three-star Michelin chef Michel Roux is one of the world's most respected chefs and in Desserts he focuses his ability and flare on everyone's favorite course.

The book includes classic dessert recipes as well as modern reinterpretations, all with clear and easy-to-follow instructions. For more complicated techniques, helpful step-by-step photos ensure that even inexperienced home cooks and bakers achieve delicious results. Author Michel Roux has won countless culinary honors and is the author of the cookbooks Eggs, Pastry, and SaucesThe book is packed with 150 gorgeous full-color photographs

For anyone who wants to bake desserts as good as those that come out of professional kitchens, Desserts offers sweet inspiration.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118079256
• ISBN13: 9781118079256
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 8.3"