Sweet: Inspired Ingredients, Unforgettable Desserts by Valerie Gordon

  • Blum's coffee crunch cake

    Blum's coffee crunch cake

    from Sweet: Inspired Ingredients, Unforgettable Desserts Sweet by Valerie Gordon

    • Categories: Cakes, large; Candy / sweets; Frostings & fillings; Dessert; Entertaining & parties
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; sugar; eggs; coffee; light corn syrup; heavy cream; vanilla extract; instant coffee powder
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  • Champagne cake

    • selena__rhea on July 24, 2021

      The golden butter cake was very dense. My version of the cookbook left out when to add softened gelatin to ganache, but found the recipe on Food52 and combined with cream and corn syrup.

  • Durango cookies

    • DKennedy on March 09, 2016

      Brought two of these cookies home from the Central Market on Sunday and immediately went online to search for the recipe. These are the perfect blend of chewy and crunchy. The cacao nibs are genius. I can't wait to make these!

    • bwhip on February 13, 2019

      There's just something about these cookies. They're not the prettiest - they did spread out a fair bit during baking, each one a little different than the next, despite the dough being refrigerated for an hour per the recipe. The flavor and crunch, and combination of crispy edges and chewy centers - YUM! Irresistible. Nice and buttery with great caramelization. Can't eat just one. Only changes I made were using bittersweet chips (Ghiradelli 60%) rather than milk chocolate chips, dark brown sugar rather than light, and I toasted the almonds a bit before mixing in. Really good cookies!

  • Blueberry-Meyer lemon muffins

    • Astrid5555 on August 19, 2014

      Disappointing! Recipe produced a very stiff batter which made it very difficult to incorporate the berries. Finished muffins had some kind of metallic aftertaste. Family did not much care for them.

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Reviews about this book

  • Fine Cooking

    ...Gordon has a sense of adventure and eye for detail that permeate the lavishly photographed book. But it's the care with which she writes her recipes that makes this book a real standout.

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  • Kitchn

    I quickly discovered that this is an excellent (really excellent) cookbook. And now it is living where it belongs: wide open on my kitchen counter, just in time for holiday baking and gift giving.

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  • Serious Eats

    As a cook book, Sweet sits at the intersection of art and education, with enough know-how to be a solid baking reference, but far too beautiful to be called a textbook.

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  • ISBN 10 1579654681
  • ISBN 13 9781579654689
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  • Published Oct 01 2013
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 352
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Artisan
  • Imprint Artisan Division of Workman Publishing

Publishers Text

How do you capture that indescribably giddy moment when you're about to open a gift or a box of chocolates? This book is filled with more than 100 recipes to create those moments of joy and indulgence. This comprehensive book of baking recipes includes Valerie's famed Coffee Crunch Cake, Rose Petal Petits Fours, Black Pepper Truffles, Almond Shortbread, Durango Cookies, and more. She re-creates desserts from Los Angeles' lost restaurants such as Chasen's and the Brown Derby; she simplifies the process of candy making; she provides an accessible way to mix and match components so readers can design their own cakes and pies. Filled with helpful tricks (what to do with leftover butter cream, how to turn cookies into sandwich cookies, etc) and with recipes for a range of tastes, Sweet will find an audience in bakers everywhere.

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