Dessert University More Than 300 Spectacular Recipes and Essential Lessons from White House Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier

Name: Dessert University More Than 300 Spectacular Recipes and Essential Lessons from White House Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier
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ISBN: 9780743223171

ISBN-10: 0743223179

ISBN-13: 9780743223171

Edition: 2004

Authors: Roland Mesnier, Lauren Chattman, John Burgoyne, Maren Caruso

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As Executive Pastry Chef at the White House for almost twenty-five years, Roland Mesnier has been responsible for creating thousands of elegant, delicious confections and dazzling desserts for hundreds of state dinners and family occasions. An accomplished teacher as well as a master chef, he now shares his expertise with home cooks in Dessert University. This beautifully illustrated volume is a complete course in making the full spectrum of spectacular sweets -- from breakfast pastries, cookies, and pies to fresh-fruit desserts, frozen confections, and cakes. Recipes in each chapter are organized from the simplest to the most complex, and Chef Mesnier walks you through each step, pointing… out common mistakes and offering insights on technique gained from his years as a professional. Most of these recipes need few special ingredients and almost no fancy equipment; nearly everything can be purchased at a well-stocked supermarket, department store, or kitchen supply store. Chef Mesnier includes tips on techniques, ingredients, and serving suggestions, and offers home cooks practical advice, such as how to fill and use a pastry bag and the best way to whip egg whites. A resource list is also included, so cooks can find the more unusual ingredients they need to make these delectable creations. Mesnier starts off with his fresh-fruit desserts, including uniquely wonderful recipes such as Bananas in Raspberry Cream, Blueberry Fool, and Poached Peaches with Chestnut Mousse. He moves on to creamy custards, puddings, soufflés, mousses and Bavarians, ice creams, meringues, crêpes, and breakfast treats (including buttery brioche and croissant doughs). Chef Mesnier's cookie and bar recipes will fill your cookie jar with such treats as Chocolate Chip Cookies, Almond Crescents, Orange Butter Cookies, Brownies, and Florentine Squares. There are sweet and savory tarts, and cakes ranging from the simple (Lemon Pound Cake) to the unusual (Peanut Butter and Jelly Roulade Cake) to the sophisticated (Chocolate Champagne Mousse Cake). Ambitious home cooks can even try their hand at making chocolate candy and sugar decorations. A chapter on syrups, sauces, and other dessert components completes the book. More than fifty black-and-white line drawings throughout illustrate Chef Mesnier's instructions for the more complicated recipes, and there are sixteen stunning color photographs of finished desserts. Home cooks and professionals spend hundreds of dollars in formal cooking classes to learn what masters like Roland Mesnier have to teach. In Dessert University, Chef Mesnier has distilled the experience and expertise of an extraordinary career into one accessible, user-friendly volume. Whether you're a novice who has never picked up a rolling pin or an accomplished cook looking to hone and enhance your skills, this is truly a book you cannot do without.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 9/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.75" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 3.322
Language: English

Roland Mesnier is the former Executive Pastry Chef of the White House. He developed the first professional pastry program in the Washington, D.C., area, at L'Acadï¿½mie de Cuisine, in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also the honorary president of the World Cup of Pastry, and every year L'Acadï¿½mie de Cuisine awards a scholarship in his name. He lives in Virginia.

Lauren Chattman is a cookbook author and former professional pastry chef who has written 10 books, including most recently "Dessert Express". She collaborated with former White House Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier on" Dessert University" and with Daniel Leader on "Local Breads", which won an IACP award. She has appeared on "The Today Show" and has sold over 50,000 books on QVC. She can be seen demonstrating baking techniques for Pillsbury on www.howdini.com.



Introduction: Devoted to Dessert


The Secrets of Simply Wonderful Fruit Desserts


Light and Silky Puddings, Custards, and Soufflï¿½s


Versatile Mousses and Bavarians


Frozen Desserts from Simple to Spectacular


Magical Meringues


Delicate Crï¿½pes and Delectable Fillings


Memorable Breakfast Pastries and Perfect Pastry Doughs


Cookies You Can Count On


Favorite Tarts and Pies


Perfect Cakes for All Occasions


Chocolate Candy and Decorations at Home


Sugar Decorations for Passionate Cooks


Syrups, Sauces, Glazes, and Other Dessert Essentials


Appendix: Mail-Order Resources


Metric Equivalencies


Index