My eighth book, Sinfully
Easy Delicious Desserts is just out. You might be thinking, “what, another
dessert book, can’t she give it a rest?”
What’s new, fun, and interesting about Sinfully?
After seven books, I’ve shifted my perspective from baker to
cook. I’ve always noticed that people who love (and are good at) baking think
and learn differently than people who love (and are good at) cooking. How many fantastic Top Chef candidates
get knocked out of the competition because they can’t make a good dessert? How many good home cooks put out
fabulous, seemingly effortless meals with a store-bought dessert finale? Maybe
this is you. Maybe you find baking too finicky or constraining. Maybe you like
to taste and adjust as you cook; maybe you hate to follow a recipe exactly, or
don’t like to measure precisely.
Maybe your cakes and cookies are more like doorstops and paperweights…
All cooks need simple sensational little desserts up their
sleeves: clever easy things to do with fruit or ice cream, or a lightening
quick gingerbread, a great little sauce, compote, or pudding, or a easier-than-it-looks
soufflé. We all need recipes that
are simple but not simple minded, terrific but not time consuming, compelling
but not complicated.
My editor (a very stylish cook who hates to bake) delights
in saying that Sinfully is the
dessert book with no pastry bags, pastry brushes, rolling pins, offset
spatulas, or baking skills!
Visit my brand new and beautiful website (see previous
post!) at http://alicemedrich.com/ to
learn more about the book or check out my touring schedule. Maybe I will see
you this week in Petaluma, San Diego, Westlake Village, New York (in late
summer), or elsewhere in the Fall.