PARIS, Oct 11 — In her latest cookbook, popular author Dorie Greenspan aims to demystify French desserts and make them less daunting, with a collection of contemporary recipes that come from everyone from her French hairdresser to the average French household.
Baking Chez Moi is 496 pages of dessert recipes for the at-home cook. Traditionally labour-intensive French pastry recipes are described as pared down but no less sophisticated.
Greenspan has penned a small canon of cookbooks devoted to French cuisine, and has worked alongside the likes of Pierre Hermé, Daniel Boulud, and Julia Child.
Her last cookery book devoted to French desserts, Baking: From My Home to Yours, published in 2006, won a James Beard Foundation Award.
In Baking Chez Moi readers can expect to find recipes like chocolate loaf cake with cubes of dark chocolate that have been melted, salted, and frozen, and a simple, five-ingredient slow-roasted pineapple dessert she sourced from her hairdresser.
They can also expect classic French desserts like lemon-glazed madeleines, caramel tart and apple squares from Normandy.
Baking Chez Moi is published by Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and will line store shelves October 28 with a retail price of US$40 (RM130.) — Afp Relaxnews
