With New Healthy Kitchen Desserts, you can improve your diet while enjoying dishes such as Golden Kiwifruit Pavlovas, Walnut and Date Tart, or Sautéed Plums with Amaretto. This colorful series of healthy cookbooks takes a commonsense approach to eating right. Food fads and trendy diets may come and go, but your family doctor can tell you that you will never go wrong eating a wide variety of fresh vegetables and fruits, whole grains, and legumes. We all know that we're supposed to be eating several servings of each of these foods every day. But you might not know that we're also supposed to be eating as many different colors of fruit and vegetable as possible. The naturally occurring pigments that give vibrant colors to fruits and vegetables also offer an array of unique health benefits, boosting your immune system and fighting common diseases and conditions as you age. These pigments and other plant compounds -- known as antioxidants and phytochemicals -- work in tandem with vitamins, minerals, and fiber to keep our bodies strong and well. The amazing benefits of colorful foods, whole grains, legumes, seeds, and nuts are being studied in labs across the country and touted by government experts on nutrition. But all the good advice in the world won't help you put a healthy dinner on the table. The books of the New Healthy Kitchen series -- Starters, Main Dishes, and Desserts -- will do just that. The 60 recipes in these pages, grouped by the color of a key ingredient, offer dozens of appealing and easy ways to bring a rainbow of fruits, vegetables, and grains into your daily meals. Even better, 24 "Fresh Ideas" suggest simple ways of enjoying fresh produce as an impromptu dessert. With New Healthy Kitchen Desserts, eating right won't be a sacrifice or a chore. In these books, healthy food means good food, simply prepared and a pleasure to eat.

More than 40 recipes, including favorite classics and fresh new ideas, are included in this collection--plus a chapter devoted entirely to chocolate! Full-color photographs of each dessert help make it easy to decide which to prepare, and each recipe is accompanied by a photographic side note that highlights a baking technique or key ingredient.

Presents easy-to-prepare dessert recipes for middle-school-aged cooks, including such items as strawberry shortcake, rocky road fudge, and ice cream sandwiches.

In this irresistible collection, you’ll find an enticing dessert for every day of the year. From simple to extraordinary, classic to contemporary, rustic to refined, discover 365 mouthwatering recipes that will feed any sweet tooth and inspire all home cooks. Williams-Sonoma Dessert of the Day brings together 365 mouthwatering recipes in this attractive, practical volume. Each of the 12 chapters opens with a colorful monthly calendar that provides an at-a-glance view of the desserts included. From January to December, you’ll find sweet recipes that suit every occasion, from a casual weeknight supper or a summer backyard get-together to a birthday celebration or a holiday gathering, and that fit every schedule, from simple sorbets to more elaborate cakes and tarts. Each recipe is accompanied with a note that might offer baking tips, advice on substituting ingredients, ideas for garnishes, or other helpful hints. Many of the recipes are illustrated with full-color photographs to guide you as you bake. From homespun pies and cobblers loaded with seasonal fruit to decadent chocolate-orange cupcakes and creamy hazelnut gelato, these recipes feature classic favorites as well as loads of contemporary delights. Lavish photographs and a colorful graphic design add visual appeal to the enticing collection and showcase seasonal dishes. So, go ahead and open this year-long celebration of desserts and start cooking. Selected recipes include: -Lemon Chiffon Gingersnap Pie -Sticky Rice with Mango & Coconut Cream -Lavender Shortbread -Brown Butter Pound Cake with Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote -Summer Berry Pie -Baked Stuffed Pears -Crunchy Toffee Triangles -Maple Panna Cotta with Candied Walnuts -Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti

More than twenty sweet treats you can make in the popular multicooker! From cheesecakes and sweet breads to fresh fruit desserts, the Instant Pot takes the guesswork out of conventional baking and eliminates common pitfalls. With this concise cookbook, home bakers can discover more than twenty dessert recipes crafted specifically for the Instant Pot, including favorites like Chocolate Chip Banana Bread, Key Lime Pie, and Carrot Cake. Even trickier desserts such as Salted Caramel Cheesecake, Classic Rice Pudding, and Brown Sugar Peach Cobbler cook perfectly in the pressurized steam of the Instant Pot. With full-color photos and straightforward instructions, The Instant Pot Desserts Cookbook offers a broad range of sweet ideas for your Instant Pot.

Inspired by fruits, herbs and vegetables at their peak of ripeness, the recipes are grouped by season.

A collection of simple recipes that will have you baking crowd-pleasing desserts with the freshest fruits all year long. Most fruit desserts, including the ones in this book, offer the benefit of being easy to make. They’re also good examples of the culinary principle that if you start with the finest ingredients and prepare them in ways that highlight their natural qualities, you’ll get outstanding results. With this easy-to-follow collection of recipes you’ll be churning out delicious fruit desserts year round. Battle the transitional temperatures of spring with strawberry-rhubarb coffee cake, raspberry gratin, gingered rhubarb crisp or an apricot-pistachio tart. They’ll be no suffering in the summer heat with little plum galettes, blueberry-cream cheese custard pie, black forest cake with fresh cherries, plum buckle or sour cherry pie. The arrival of fall may leave you pining for vacation days but with the help of roasted grape tartlets, quince tea cake, fresh fig galette, pumpkin-ginger cheesecake and pear-walnut sticky cake you won’t be pining for long. Finally, winter’s chill won’t leave slim pickings with options like cranberry-pecan pie, pineapple upside-down skillet cake, pumpkin moon pies with orange cream and chocolate-banana bread pudding. Williams-Sonoma Luscious Fruit Desserts also features a section on basic baking techniques, as well as full-color photos throughout.