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ready for dessert: behind-the-scenes, baking tips, and errata

Thereโ€™s a lot going on when you write a cookbook. You begin with an idea, then spend a year or two testing and developing recipes. Once the first draft is done, it goes through a developmental edit where the editor gives feedback on what youโ€™ve done so far and offers up changes, ideas, or things to reconsider. After youโ€™ve implemented those (or not), it thenโ€ฆ

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Get my new book ready for dessertโ€ฆnow available!

Itโ€™s almost ready! Coming this Fall is the new, completely revised edition of Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes. [Itโ€™s now available at ==> Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and at the links below.] When my publisher told me they wanted a new edition of the book, I decided to revise the book completely, from top to bottom. Ready for Dessert is a compilation ofโ€ฆ

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Coconut Chocolate Macaroon Recipe

Many people tell me this is one of their favorite recipes from my cookbook, Ready For Dessert. In addition to these fantastic Coconut-Dipped Chocolate Macaroonsย in it, youโ€™ll find theย much-lovedย recipe for Fresh Ginger Cake, which makes a fantastic dessert served with sliced, juicy peaches or flavorful strawberries and raspberries in the summer, or tangy lemon cream in the winter, as well as my other most frequentlyโ€ฆ

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Dark Chocolate-Cherry Fruitcake

โ€˜Tis the season for holiday baking and Iโ€™ll admit to being on a little bit of a fruitcake bender, recently giving a Black Fruitcake a go and revisiting one of my all-time favorite recipes, Fruitcake Bars which won accolades from several French friends. (They were also surprised at how easy there were to make, too.) A while back, I gave the much-maligned fruitcake a makeover,โ€ฆ

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Upcoming New York City Events in December

Coming up, Iโ€™ll be doing two events in New York City. At both Iโ€™ll be signing books, and you can take care of some of that holiday shopping. Come say hi! On Saturday, Decemberย 5th, the fine folks at The Brooklyn Kitchen (100 Frost Street, Brooklyn) will be hosting a get-together and booksigning at their store. Copies of The Sweet Life in Paris, Ready for Dessert,โ€ฆ

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Paris Booksigning, Sunday โ€“ November 30th

Next Sunday โ€“ November 30th โ€“ Iโ€™ll be at WHSmith Paris for a booksigning. Iโ€™ll be at the book shop from 4pm to 5:30pm to meet and greet. There will be copies of My Paris Kitchen and The Sweet Life in Paris, as well as a limited amount of copies of The Great Book of Chocolate and Ready for Dessert. Itโ€™s the perfect opportunity forโ€ฆ

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New York/Brooklyn Booksigning: Friday, October 10th

This Friday, October 10th, Iโ€™ll be at The Brooklyn Kitchen for a book party! For this free event, on hand will be samples to tasting from My Paris Kitchen, and there will be copies of Ready for Dessert, a collection of my all-time favorite dessert recipes, and My Paris Kitchen, a collection of stories and recipes from my French kitchen, that Iโ€™m happy to signโ€ฆ

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Paris Book Signing This Sunday

This Sunday, Iโ€™ll be doing a book signing with my friends at The House That Jack Built as part of their Valentine Jumble Sale. The event will take place at Le Mary Celesteย (1, rue Commines, 3rd, Mรฉtro: Filles du Calvaire or Rรฉpublique).There will be copies of The Perfect Scoop sale priced in hardcover and paperback, in addition to a limited amount of copies of Theโ€ฆ

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San Francisco Booksigning at Omnivore Books

Hey! Iโ€™ll be doing a booksigning at Omnivore Books in San Francisco on Sunday, December 8th. The shop is located at 3885 Cesar Chavez Street (at Church) and Iโ€™ll be there from 3 to 4pm. Copies of The Sweet Life in Paris, The Perfect Scoop, Ready for Dessert and The Great Book of Chocolate will be on available. Stop by and get books signed forโ€ฆ

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