Sweet Envy: Deceptively Easy Desserts, Designed to Steal the Show

by Seton Rossini

Overview

Inspired desserts that make a statement—yet are fast and easy

Want your friends and family to gasp in awe when you bring dessert to the table? Here's a secret: You can make wow-worthy cakes, cookies, candies, and more, in your own kitchen, faster and more easily than you'd ever guess. (Certainly you don't need to tell your satisfied audience.) Seton Rossini provides step-by-step instructions and photographs to help you make 75 crowd-pleasing confections such as:

• Honeybee Cupcakes
• Piñata Cake
• Rothko Cookies
• Limoncello Tart
• Bailey's Marshmellows

Rossini takes her cue from artists, vintage sweets, cocktails, and more, to create desserts that are crazy fun, breathtakingly beautiful, and, most importantly, surprisingly simple.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581572780
Publisher:	Countryman Press, The
Publication date:	10/05/2015
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Seton Rossini is a baker, blogger, and award-winning designer. She’s competed on a Food Network Challenge, demonstrated her succulent cupcakes on ABC's The Chew, and created whimsical pastries for the windows of Macy’s. She lives with her family in Baltimore, Maryland.

Editorial Reviews

12/01/2015
Blogger Rossini (pixel-whisk.com) showcases low-effort, high-impact decorating techniques in this whimsical collection of cookies, cakes, pies, and confections. Recipes including ombre polka dot cake, honeybee cheesecake bites, and paint swatch petit fours may appear impressive and complicated, but they're easy and foolproof. Black-and-white monogram cookies, for example, call for only one shade of food coloring and don't require precise piping or specialty equipment. In addition to recipes, Rossini includes inexpensive craft projects, such as DIY cake stands, sugar cookie gift tags, and chalkboard chargers. Readers can give these as stylish gifts or use them to entertain with flair. VERDICT Even novices can feel confident baking and serving Rossini's showstopping sweets.

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