• Eat Your Books

  See Susie's review of this cookbook in her round-up of the best 2009 cookbooks at NPR Kitchen Window and sample recipes for Crisp honey grahams and Gingerbread cupcakes with candied ginger.

  See Serious Eats review of this cookbook with sample recipes for Jasmine rice pudding and Sweet corn custard. This book was listed in their Best Cookbooks of 2009.

• Poyma on March 30, 2017

  Brownies-- wow, yum! Substituted 1 cup of wheat bran for the flour and no one was the wiser. Upping the fibre content makes these delicious chocolatey brownies a bit more healthful (I hope, anyway).

• Bethcote on April 04, 2015

  Lamington Cakes are awesome here!

Notes about Recipes in this book

• Chocolate chip scones

  • twoyolks on December 27, 2016

    These were easy and quick to make. They tasted fine but I've had better scones.

• Apple cider muffins

  • gastronom on September 16, 2014

    For me, this made a huge amount of batter. I made 12 muffins and an 8-inch square cake. Nice and moist but the flavor was not impressive. Maybe my apples were too small. Wish she gave us weights for the ingredients.

• Brown butter waffles

  • stacymarkow on April 11, 2020

    Do not crisp up in the waffle maker, and brown butter flavor is completely lost. There are many other waffle recipes out there that are far superior to this.

• Brioche cinnamon rolls

  • twoyolks on December 28, 2015

    I had trouble getting the dough to rise. I think that heating the eggs prior to incorporating them into the dough may have killed the yeast.

• Pecan shortbread cookies

  • gastronom on March 30, 2013

    Tender cookie with outstanding vanilla and pecan flavor.

• Chocolate walnut biscotti

  • miaroy on February 09, 2026

    These are delicious and the sticky dough note is no joke. Use a lot of flour and also maybe make the logs right on the parchment. Moving them is near impossible. The spread a bit while baking the first time.

• Back-to-school raspberry granola bars

  • PatriciaScarpin on June 22, 2011

    These bars are addictive! A friend of mine has made them too and her kids loved it. http://technicolorkitcheninenglish.blogspot.com/2011/05/back-to-school-raspberry-granola-bars.html

  • Pakpack4 on March 09, 2026

    This is okay, and I liked them. They were easy to make using mostly pantry staples. I probably wouldn’t make them again.

• Banana cupcakes with peanut butter buttercream

  • gastronom on April 20, 2014

    Delicious--cupcakes are moist and tasty. Peanut buttercream is mild and not too sweet. Cupcake batter would be great even without frosting. Could bake as a small cake.

• Carrot cupcakes with mascarpone cream frosting

  • swegener on February 01, 2015

    These were good--a dense traditional carrot cupcake. They didn't win the cupcake cook off.

• Milk chocolate hazelnut panna cotta

  • Astrid5555 on December 16, 2012

    This is simply Nutella and cream, thus a big hit with the kids. Took very long to set properly though (might be due to my inexperience with powdered gelatine, since I normally use only gelatine leaves).

• Lemon steamed pudding

  • gastronom on March 30, 2013

    Delicious, light, and perfectly lemony.

  • Suzannefrc on March 16, 2026

    Delicious!

• Banana malt ice cream

  • wcassity on January 01, 2021

    Delicious. Deep molasass-y taste you have to adjust to.

• Strawberry ice cream

  • twoyolks on June 25, 2013

    The vanilla gives it a different flavor from what I was expecting in strawberry ice cream.

• Peach ice cream

  • twoyolks on August 17, 2020

    A really nice peach ice cream. The ice cream takes on the flavor of the peaches well and the fresh peach bits are also nice.

• Fine Cooking

  DeMasco...has made her mark...with her signature desserts... Here, she shares her recipes, along with heaps of helpful tips and sidebars on varying the recipes to make them your own.

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