Desserts: 500 recipes, Hachette (French)

Choose a dessert for a meal, find a cake idea or bake biscuits: this Hachette Pratique volume brings together 500 sweet recipes in a 384-page hardback. The purple cover identifies the book published in September 2023. This is the French-language edition.

From sharing cakes to individual desserts

The recipes range from tarts and creams to cakes and frozen desserts. Profiteroles, chocolate fondant and lemon meringue pie are among the recipes announced. The excerpts show further ideas: speculoos cheesecake, cupcakes, checkerboard cake, prune far and apple and pear crumble.

Pages on mousses, floating islands and biscuits give a sense of this variety. Interior photographs also show how the ingredient lists and recipe steps are laid out.

Basics to refer to as you cook

The book also covers preparations such as caramel, puff pastry and buttercream. These techniques sit alongside the dessert ideas, bringing basics and complete recipes into one volume.

• 500 recipes; 384 pages.
• Hachette Pratique, large-format hardback.
• Dimensions: 220 × 277 mm.
• Published on 20 September 2023.
• ISBN 9782019468293.