Delightful Desserts

Book excerpt: Dessert will never be the same again. Why settle for the same old lemon bars or chocolate cake? With Jane Soudah, winner of the Spring Baking Championship, you can have exceptionally bold, mind-blowing desserts. Jane shows readers how to create 60 incredibly delicious desserts with unexpected and amped up flavors. You can learn the secrets to boost the flavors in your baking, with each recipe demonstrating a tip from Jane’s many years of experience. The adventurous tastes come from utilizing multiple aspects of flavor, from juices and zests to citric acid, aromatic bitters, alcohol and extracts. Learn to balance and bring out the true flavors of the desserts, while adding new flavors to create root, herbal and floral notes, too. Recipes include Yuzu Key Lime Pie, Orange Bitters Olive Oil Cake with Aperol Glaze, Blackberry-Rose Geranium Pound Cake and Chinese Five Spice Snickerdoodles. Expect the unexpected with Daring Desserts.