Charlie Trotter's Desserts

Charlie Trotter's Desserts
Cooks, book buyers and food lovers have come to expect the lavishly unexpected from chef Charlie Trotter, and his fourth large-format, gorgeously photographed cookbook, "Desserts", delivers the ultimate indulgence.

Charlie Trotter's Desserts
by Charlie Trotter, Trotter Charlie, Michelle Gayer
List Price: $50.00 Our Price: $35.00
Hardcover - 240 pages (November 1998)
Ten Speed Pr
ISBN: 089815815X
Dimensions (in inches): 1.05 x 11.82 x 9.34
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Of all Trotter's books, this newest volume in the series produced out of Charlie Trotter's Chicago restaurant is the most attractive and accessible to the home cook. Despite the celebrated chef's continuing call for items such as satsuma oranges and Meyer lemons, unavailable to all but the most determined shopper, plenty of these recipes make smashing ends to meals. Whole-wheat carrot cake can stand on its own without the lovely but nonessential additions of black walnut praline and carrot sorbet. Blackstrap molasses, seldom seen outside health food stores, figures in several of Trotter's desserts, notably as a flavoring in an idiosyncratic pecan pie with a novel curry crust. Cooks burdened with excess primrose petals can toss them into sauce for rosewater creme caramel topped with black pepper cookies. Trotter's reinterpretation of German chocolate cake produces multiple layers formed into upright triangular slices that challenge any pastry chef's skills. Mark Knoblauch
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