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Are you ready to take your baking over the top? Here are sixty decadent and delightful ice creams and the sixty desserts that are their vehicles. A la Mode offers not just solid dessert recipes, from raspberry oat bars to bear claws, from chocolate pecan pie to a white chocolate pavlova, but also gives you the unforgettable pairings that make these desserts smash hits: apple cranberry pie with Camembert ice cream, chocolate sheet cake with salt caramel frozen custard, and espresso cream jelly roll with mascarpone ice cream.. Lets face it: vanilla can sometimes be so... vanilla. A great a-la-mode pairing should be as decadent as finding the perfect wine to go with your cheese plate. With A la Mode, IACP winners and cookbook dynamos Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough show you how to create innovative delights such as creamy hazelnut gelato atop coffee-poached pears, or maple frozen custard with a mouthwatering cinnamon roll cake, alongside simpler classics like confetti ice cream with layered vanilla birthday cake. You havent lived until youve had peanut brittle pie with popcorn ice cream, a Cracker Jack fantasy! . Because whats a warm pie without ice cream? With A la Mode, youll have to answer that question!
About the Author
I'm the writing half of a best-selling cookbook team (with Bruce Weinstein, my partner and the chef in our duo) . Once upon a time, I was an academic, working in nineteenth century American literature, teaching in Austin, when writing slowly overtook my life. I started providing content for a little start-up called AOL, started writing screenplays for some fancy-pants actor/directors, and finally chucked it all to move to New York. (I love being a cliché.) These days, Bruce and I find our peace on ten acres in northern Connecticut with bear, moose, and bobcats--as well as a collie named Dreydl. We just published COOKING KNOW-HOW this year--and are eagerly awaiting HAM: AN OBSESSION WITH THE HINDQUARTER in March and REAL FOOD HAS CURVES: HOW TO GET OFF PROCESSED FOOD, LOSE WEIGHT, AND LOVE WHAT YOU EAT in May. And there's a goat book in pieces on my computer for 2011.
