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More Than Cake

100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community

by Natasha Pickowicz
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The sumptuous debut cookbook from celebrated baker, activist, and pastry “it girl” Natasha Pickowicz * Named a Best New Cookbook of Spring 2023 by Food & Wine, Eater, and more * A James Beard Award Nominee
 
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 savory with kabocha squash. Brown butter is the secret to irresistible buckwheat chocolate chunk cookies.
 
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 flavor; 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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    April 11, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781648292095

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      • ISBN: 9781648292095
      • File size: 59454 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      March 1, 2023
      Bakers at risk of becoming bored with the same old recipes need look no further! NYC-based Pickowicz earned a following as a pastry chef and baking activist. She has also mastered a cool creativity with her treats, presenting restaurant-quality recipes that are advertised as achievable by amateurs. Don't mistake these luscious bakes as being quick and simple though; her apricot and olive focaccia requires dough fermentation and an advance soak of the fruit in verjus, and terrazzo bread includes homemade candied watermelon rind. Pairings sound unusual but intriguing; imagine the sour tang of homemade kumquat preserves paired with a hazelnut coffee shortbread in a linzer cookie or the salty touch of fried capers on an olive oil-drenched cake. Other thought-provokers include pine nut sabl�es with taleggio; black sesame, cream cheese, and pineapple layer cake; and sunchoke and apricot tart. Pickowicz's melodic prose makes you want to curl up with her book, a cup of tea, and one of her pecan and black cardamom buns and revel in the originality of such outside-the-box recipes.

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    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2023

      Pastry chef and bake-sale boss Pickowicz details her method of creating desserts of all sorts in this informative volume, her first cookbook. Putting people at the forefront, she believes dessert can stimulate community and includes information on supporting causes through fundraising with baked goods. From cookies to savory bakes with vegetables, with an ode to fruit desserts in between, recipes are often multi-step, even multi-day events, resulting in unexpected flavor unions, such as olive-oil cake with crispy capers. A formula for creating layer cakes (cake, soak, filling, then frosting) provides countless possibilities. Step-by-step photos help to explain an unusual process for building layers: Start with a thin sheet cake, which gets cut most often into circles, then swaddled in plastic wrap and stacked inside a tall cake pan. After all the soaking, filling, and layering, the cake is turned out and frosted. Tips, including variations and how to recover from mistakes, are sprinkled throughout the book. VERDICT Best for those who like slow, meditative bakes and unique ingredient combinations.--P.J. Gardiner

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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