Instructions are easy to follow and no professional equipment is needed for these mouth-watering morsels. Full-color illustrations.

An enchanting recipe collection featuring ornately decorated, bonbon-sized layer cakes The Petit Four Cookbook reinvents an 18th-century French delicacy and brings it straight to the reader's kitchen. With flavor combinations ranging from classic vanilla, chocolate ganache, and lemon butter cream to tangy apricot, raspberry preserve, and rich mocha, there is no end to the types of cakes one can make. The hottest trend in baking is tiny desserts, and these decadent morsels are the quintessential bite-size indulgence. The Petit Four Cookbook features 50 recipes from Brooks Nguyen ? teacher, baker extraordinaire, and owner of the country's premier petit four bakery, Dragonfly Cakes. Brooks uses her years of experience teaching petit four baking classes to guide readers every step of the way as they learn the techniques for baking as well as the artistry for decorating these tiny pastries. With gorgeous full-color photos, time-tested instructions, and some history to boot, this ultimate guide to petit fours is not just the first of its kind, it's the last word on the subject.

Learn How to Make Extraordinary French Desserts from a Master of Pâtisserie Cheryl Wakerhauser—owner of the award-winning Pix Pâtisserie—introduces you to an exciting array of flavors, shapes, textures and colors by focusing on petits fours, bon bons, macarons and more. With step-by-step instructions and tips and tricks to demystify the art of French desserts, making pâtisserie is more approachable than ever. French pâtisserie is a study in components, and Cheryl breaks down each recipe, providing information on classic techniques while imbuing each recipe with a new twist. Her petits fours combine flavors like peppermint chocolate cream and gingerbread cake, or tarragon meringue and mini lemon cream puffs, to create the perfect harmony of taste and texture. In addition to petits fours, she also shares a sweet and savory menu for high tea, bon bons that go above and beyond the classic truffle and her own take on macarons, miniaturized to be the size of pop-in-your-mouth candies. Cheryl’s ingenuity, incredible flavors and knowledge of techniques are what make this a must-have resource for both aspiring pastry chefs and home bakers.

For the first time, famed pastry chef Francois Payard devotes his creative powers solely to chocolate, sharing 100 recipes for home cooks of every level - from novice to advances - in CHOCOLATE EPIPHANY. From easy to challenging, white to bittersweet, a stunning and sumptuous dessert that looks and tastes like ti came from a professional pastry chef awaits on every page. Thanks to Francois Payard's clear and thorough recipes, treats such as bittersweet Chocolate Sorbet, Chocolate Peppermint Toffee, or Milk Chocolate Truffles are not only delicious but also accessible. And for the ambitious, Chocolate Wedding Cake, Chocolate Meringue Tart, or Napoleon of Milk Chocolate with candied Kumquats could be the perfect end to an extravagant dinner party. Whatever your craving, CHOCOLATE EPIPHANY offers the perfect recipe from traditional desserts to innovative sweets.

A petit four is a small confectionery generally served as part of dessert or eaten with coffee. Some of the recipes within the book: Classical Petit Fours Glacés Recipe, A La Ritz Petit Fours, Chocolate Éclairs, Custard Choux Buns, Fruit Custard Tartlets, Chocolate And Strawberry Tartlets, Rose Petal Pistachio Macarons, White Chocolate Ganache With Amaretto Macarons and much, much more...... This recipe book contains delicious, easy to follow recipes.

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