Sweet Melissa Baking Book: Recipes from the Beloved Bakery for Everyone's Favorite Treats by Melissa Murphy
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- ISBN: 0670018740
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Pub. Date: March 2008
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Synopsis
A baking book from "one of the best pastry shops in all of New York" (Food and Wine)
Everyone has a favorite sweet treat. Whether it's a delicious brownie or the perfect mouthwatering chocolate chip cookie, simple, homespun treats are some of our most beloved. Melissa Murphy has a love of desserts that started when she was born on Thanksgiving Day—her mother refused to go to the hospital until the two pies she'd baked had been served. Now, Melissa brings that passion to the loyal devotees of her popular, award-winning Sweet Melissa Pâtisserie shops.
What makes Melissa's desserts and pastries special is that they are treats we all know and love with a fresh spin that make them more delicious than ever before. In The Sweet Melissa Baking Book, Melissa shares her simple, triedand-true techniques and her French-influenced, American- style baking approach. There are desserts for everyday, such as Double Dark Chocolate Cherry Cookies, and for more special occasions.
Warm and spirited, The Sweet Melissa Baking Book also contains charming anecdotes from Melissa's life of baking. With more than one hundred recipes, the simple treats in this book will make each day and every special occasion sweeter.
Biography
Melissa Murphy is the chef and co-owner of the popular Sweet Melissa Pâtisserie shops in Brooklyn. Murphy has also made several appearances on the Food Network.
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Sweet Melissa Baking Book: Recipes from the Beloved Bakery for Everyone's Favorite Treatsby Anonymous
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03/13/2008: I have the pleasure of knowing Melissa Murphy personally and can vouch for the quality and scrumptiousness of each and every recipe in her long-awaited cookbook. She put all her heart into each of these gems and it's a delight to see someone be so passionate about food after so many years in the biz. Her Sweet Melissa Patisseries have been a mainstay of Brownstone Brooklyn dating back 10 years to a time when this area was just beginning to transform, leading the culinary rebirth of NY's coolest borough. I think as America's love affair with all things 'foody' matures, people will move away from the fascination with fussy and 'intellectual' food, and lovingly embrace what really makes our hearts pound and mouths water. In this case, superbly baked pastries of the highest quality made from fresh, whole, REAL ingredients-- no skimping and an emphasis on FLAVOR and TEXTURE. In the realm of dessert especially, what appeals to the passions are those classic and legendary associations from our childhood. In this case, a perfect combination of French and American influence. Buy the book and whip up a batch of her famous Butterscotch Pudding, Bee Stings, Spiced Pumpkin Cookie Cakes 'think pumpkin whoopie pie', or her reknowned Chestnut Honey Madeleines which are surely inspiring some budding Brooklyn-born Proust as I write. All her recipes are easily accessible to the home cook and deliver that hard-to-come-by, flavor-popping yumminess. Treat yourself and experience something we Brooklynites have had to ourselves for a while. We're happy to share. Happy Eating!
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