Modern French Pastry: Innovative Techniques, Tools and Design

Modern French Pastry is not a cookbook about the classics. You will find no tart tatins, lemon tarts or opera cakes inthis book. Instead, Modern French Pastry gives you 41 original recipesnever seen before, in an array of shapes, colors, flavors and sizes. Pix Pâtisserie award-winning chef and owner, Cheryl Wakerhauser (a.k.a.Pix), is known for combining bold flavors and textures into stunning,edible packages sold at her Portland, Ore. dessert oasis. Now, sheshares her techniques, flavor combinations and whimsical design (alongwith a few parlor tricks!) in her acutely instructional cookbook, Modern French Pastry. Amazing looking and tasting desserts so explicablyexplained it will be a tossup as to who is more impressed - you or yourguests! French pastry is a study in components. Cheryl breakseach recipe down into easy to follow subrecipes that can be done inadvance for convenience and even interchanged with other recipes tocreate your own signature dessert. Instructions for classic F