Dessert Express Lauren Chattman Book Review
Easy Desserts: 100 Sweet Treats You Can Make in 30 Minutes or Less
Looking for fast and easy dessert recipes? Dessert Express by Lauren Chattman has 100 sweet treats that can be made in half an hour or less. Learn her secrets, and discover how quick and easy recipes, and delicious desserts, can both be accomplished at the same time.
Chattman's book, Dessert Express, received rave reviews from Robin Miller, Food Network host and author of "Quick Fix Meals", Dorie Greenspan, author of "Baking from My Home to Yours" and Marcel Desaulniers, author of "I'm Dreaming of a Chocolate Christmas".
Lauren Chattman's 5 Secrets to Fast Desserts
- Downsize - 'Less is more' is the secret ingredient to quick & easy desserts. Large quantities of cookies take longer to prepare and bake. Don't make more than is needed.
- Turn Up the Heat - Some desserts can take a little more heat than traditional cookbooks say, so crank up the oven and bake faster.
- Chill Out - Cool down those right-out-of-the-oven desserts in a water bath or stick them in the fridge or freezer to chill out!
- Think Outside the Oven - It takes time to preheat the oven. Some desserts can be prepared in a skillet, puddings in a saucepan, waffles on a waffle iron, etc.
- Use Convenient Ingredients - Not everything has to be made from scratch to taste homemade. Chattman makes use of convenience store-bought products to lessen her time in the kitchen.
Dessert Express
Quick Cookies - Chattman doesn't make any excuses for using packaged Nabisco Wafers, Newman's Own Alphabet Cookies and store bought cookies, to create sweet treats like Peanut Butter Cup S'Mores, Chocolate Marsmallow Cookies and Microwave Brownies.
Cakewalk - Who says cake has to be big, round and take all day to make? Mini Cupcakes, Cocoa Madeleines, Upside Down Cakes, Puddiing Cakes, Brownie Cakes and Tea Cakes gives the hurried baker a quick excuse not to make a full size, time-consuming layer cake.
Presto Pastry - Apple Tortilla Crepes, Panini, Apple Pizza and all manner of Shortcakes, starts these recipes off with ready made bases to build delicious desserts upon.
Hasty Puddings - A chapter full of puddings - chocolate, vanilla and butterscotch, rice puddings, chocolate mousse, and a warm and cozy Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding, shows just how quick and easy comfort food can be. Plus, most of these recipes can be made on the stove.
Fruit Without Labor - Fresh fruit, Tropical Fruit Chocolate Fondue, Pears with Goat Cheese & Honey, Cantaloupe In Red Wine Syrup - how much easier can it get?
Ice Cream in an Instant - Want something really easy? Ice Cream Sandwiches, Ice Cream Parfaits, Sundaes, Banana Splits and Grasshopper Milkshakes are made lickity-split, waiting for smiles from young and old alike!
Final Words
Dessert Express: 100 Sweet Treats You Can Make in 30 Minutes or Less, is a delightful paperback book full of quick and easy recipes that not only look good but taste good too. Chattman's liberal use of packaged ingredients may put off the scratch baker. However, the book does claim that desserts can be made in 30 minutes or less.Therefor, it would seem reasonable that in order to accomplish this goal, some of the ingredients may have to be convenience products.
Chattman has authored nine additional cookbooks, and her recipes have appeared in Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, The New York Times, and Redbook.
Dessert Express: 100 Sweet Treats You Can Make in 30 Minutes or Less cover art and Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding photo, used with permission in writing from The Taunton Press.
Title: Dessert Express: 100 Sweet Treats You Can Make in 30 Minutes or Less
Author: Lauren Chattman
Publisher: Taunton; illustrated edition edition (September 2, 2008)
Photographer: Alexandra Grablewski
ISBN-10: 1600850189
ISBN-13: 978-1600850189
US - $17.95 Canada - $21.00
Paperback: 176 pages
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