Dessert Person: A Cookbook Review Story

Dessert Person: A Cookbook Review

Our review of Dessert Person by Claire Saffitz will give you an overview of the book, as and the two recipes we baked from it.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR, CLAIRE SAFFITZ

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Each recipe in the book comes with a difficulty rating of 1 to 5. One being very easy, and five being very challenging. The recipes in each chapter are organized by easiest to most difficult.

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The book has seven chapters. Six are broken out in categories like loaf cakes, pies and tarts, bars and cookies, layer cakes, etc.

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The babka was made with the base recipe of sweet yeast dough. I'm a big fan of chocolate babka, so I figured why not.

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The second recipe we made was this gorgeous rhubarb cake. I am a rhubarb person! The cake is moist and light on top of being sweet enough to satisfy anyone's tastebuds.

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