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Ready for Dessert, Revised

My Best Recipes [A Baking Book]
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A revised edition of David Lebovitz's bestselling collection of desserts, featuring stunning new photography and more than 170 mouthwatering recipes for pastries, cakes, cookies, and more. Professional cook and baker David Lebovitz is a master of perfectly pitched desserts and irreverent humour— a combination that has... Read More
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Ready for Dessert, Revised

"This revised edition of David Lebovitz's favorite desserts collection features 75 new photographs and even more recipes, highlighting nearly 175 desserts from one of the world's most popular authors and food bloggers"--

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A revised edition of David Lebovitz's bestselling collection of desserts, featuring stunning new photography and more than 170 mouthwatering recipes for pastries, cakes, cookies, and more.

Professional cook and baker David Lebovitz is a master of perfectly pitched desserts and irreverent humour— a combination that has won him and his books hundreds of thousands of fans. This completely revised edition of Ready for Dessert is a compilation of David's favourite and best recipes. He serves up a tantalising array of nearly 175 cakes, pies, tarts, crisps, cobblers, cookies, candies, ice creams, pastries, custards, soufflés, puddings, and even dessert sauces, fruit preserves, and homemade liqueurs.

Sharing a pared-down sophistication and a focus on fresh, pure flavours and seasonal ingredients, David's desserts range from simple to showy, light to rich, and classic to edgy, like Nectarine-Raspberry Upside-Down Gingerbread Cake, Apple-Quince Tarte Tatin, Lemon-Ginger Crème Brûlée, Buckwheat Chocolate Chip Cookies, Butterscotch-Pecan Ice Cream, Maple Tartlets, and a universally adored Salted Butter Caramel Sauce that can top just about anything.

Featuring several all-new recipes and photography shot on location in Paris by award-winning food photographer Ed Anderson, Ready for Dessert, Revised, offers showstopping treats that bakers of all skill levels will master with ease. And David's trademark friendly guidance, as well as serving suggestions, storage advice, flavour variations, and tips, will help ensure success every time. So, if you're ready for dessert (and who isn't?), crack open this sweet and essential collection and let's get baking.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780593836293

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 September 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House Inc

Edition: Revised edition

Illustration: 80 FULL-COLOR PHOTOS

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 320

About the Author

David Lebovitz has been a professional cook and baker for most of his life; he spent nearly thirteen years at Chez Panisse until he left the restaurant business in 1999 to write books. He moved to Paris in 2003 and turned his website into a phenomenally popular blog. He is the author of numerous cookbooks, including My Paris Kitchen, The Perfect Scoop, Ready for Dessert, and The Great Book of Chocolate, and two memoirs, The Sweet Life in Paris, and L'Appart. He was named one of the top five pastry chefs in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Chronicle. David has also been featured in Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Milk Street, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Saveur, Travel + Leisure, Better Homes and Gardens, People, and more.

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