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More Than Cake : 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community, Hardback Book

More Than Cake : 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community Hardback

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The sumptuous debut cookbook from celebrated baker, activist, and pastry "it girl" Natasha Pickowicz Natasha Pickowicz is a creative force in the world of baking.

Her pastries are uniquely delicious and surprising. She's picked up three James Beard Award nominations for her time as a professional pastry chef.

Her buzzy bake sales for Planned Parenthood and other nonprofits have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Now she shares her recipes and baking know-how in a debut cookbook brimming with the energy, passion, joy, knowledge, and spirit of generosity that define her work.

The recipes are fresh and uncomplicated, drawing on the author's Chinese and Californian heritage.

She pairs nectarine and miso in a tarte tatin and makes a layer cake with olive oil, mascarpone, and fennel.

Black cardamom gets tucked into pecan sticky buns, and galettes go savoury with kabocha squash. And she's a born teacher. Of course pastry requires a real focus on detail and technique, but the author is here at every step with invaluable tips: underbeat meringue; boil your plum stones to extract even more plum flavour; look for "first-press" yuzu juice; for the flakiest pie dough, first freeze your butter, then use a grater to get perfect shreds. More Than Cake means baking to bring people together.

It calls on you to prioritize pleasure. As the author writes, "Dessert is beyond simple calories and nutrition. . . . It spreads delight in a way that no other kind of dish can.

This is something I think people really need-it's not optional." It's a philosophy to live by.

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