Great Book of Desserts and Decorating Techniques

By Gianna Brocato

With more than 600 recipes and color illustrations, this reference shows readers how to prepare the best desserts with beautiful presentation. A book worthy of great pastry chefs, it features... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571452494
• ISBN13: 9781571452498
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 10.7" x 11.5"

Customer Reviews

Quite a few errors, but very extensive

This is an extremely extensive cookbook that would be great if it did not contains so many errors. It is frustrating to be sent to a page for a recipe and you are not sure if it is the right recipe. The book continuously references an almond cookie dough in the basic recipes, but there is no dough in the beginning that uses almond!!!. There are other examples of this. There are a few cases where translations were not done, and places where ingredients were not converted, but these are minor problems. There there are places where the amounts of the ingrediants were screwed up. Still very extensive with great ideas for recipes. If there is only one dessert cookbook, this could possibly be it, but I do really like Pierre Herme's recipes.

great easy recipes !

I've never seen so many recipes for traditional and innovative desserts. Wonderful photographs accompany almost every dessert. The decoration section and its techniques are very easy to understand, and made easy to follow. I am a fan of Andrea Jourdan, and was happy to see that it is one of her numerous translations. It's on my kitchen counter.

i luv desserts!

from pinenut nougat to raspberry bavarois from mont blanc to tiramisu or crepe soufflé this brings me closer to being a diabetic every day. i've never ever ever seen some many desserts explained so well. my friends luv me now! great great great fun book.