Food52 Genius Desserts

<b>In this follow-up to the IACP award-winning&#160;<i>New York Times</i>&#160;best-selling cookbook&#160;<i>Genius Recipes</i>&#160;Food52 is back with the most beloved and talked-about desserts of our time (and the under-the-radar gems that will soon join their ranks)&#151;in a collection that will make you a local legend and a smarter baker to boot.<br><br><b>IACP AWARD WINNER &#149;&#160;</b>Featured as one of the best and most anticipated fall cookbooks by the&#160;<i>New York Times</i>&#160;Eater Epicurious The Kitchn Kitchen Arts &amp; Letters Delish&#160;<i>Mercury News</i>&#160;<i>Sweet Paul</i> and PopSugar.</b><br> &#160;<br> Drawing from her James Beard Award-nominated Genius Recipes column and powered by the cooking wisdom and generosity of the Food52 community creative director Kristen Miglore set out to unearth the most game-changing dessert recipes from beloved cookbook authors chefs and bakers&#151;and collect them all in one indispensable guide.&#160;<br> &#160;<br> This led her to iconic desserts spanning the last century: Maida Heatter&#146;s East 62nd Street Lemon Cake Fran&#231;ois Payard&#146;s Flourless Chocolate-Walnut Cookies and Nancy Silverton&#146;s Butterscotch Budino. But it also turned up little-known gems: a comforting Peach Cobbler with Hot Sugar Crust from Renee Erickson and an imaginative Parsnip Cake with Blood Orange Buttercream from <i>Lucky Peach</i> along with genius tips riffs and mini-recipes and the lively stories behind each one.&#160;<br> &#160;<br> The&#160;genius&#160;of this collection is that Kristen has scouted out and rigorously tested recipes from the most trusted dessert experts finding over 100 of their standouts.&#160;Each recipe shines in a different way and teaches you something new whether it&#146;s how to use unconventional ingredients (like&#160;<i>Sunset</i>&#146;s whole orange cake) how to make the most of brilliant methods (roasted sugar from Stella Parks) or how to embrace stunning simplicity (Dorie Greenspan&#146;s three-ingredient cookies). With photographer James Ransom&#146;s riveting images throughout&#160;<i>Genius Desserts</i>&#160;is destined to become every baker's go-to reference for the very best desserts from the smartest teachers of our time&#151;for all the dinner parties potlucks bake sales and late-night snacks in between.