Imagine: Creating desserts with Christy Tania [non-booktrade customers only]

Christy Tania sprung to fame through her charismatic, winning performances on Masterchef Desserts and now she generously shares her secrets with you. The book is full of inspiring creations that Christy compiles from her basic recipes, demonstrating the true power of mastering the basics and using your imagination to go above and beyond what you previously thought was possible in the realm of desserts.After being sick and tired of having to ‘go hunting’ for good coulis or cremeux recipes – which are often buried at the back of traditional cookbooks or hidden within a larger recipe – Christy decided to create a compendium of ‘basic’ recipes for people looking for reliable and tasty staples. A book like this was something Christy wishes she had when she started her own career: she says that most books are “either for home cooks, or for advanced pastry chefs: there is no guidance to bridge the gap”.Readers are encouraged to be inspired by Christy’s ‘advanced recipes’ (as seen on TV!) for polar bears, apples, mushrooms, and Rubik’s cubes – all marvellous edible desserts.The book also includes Christy’s inspirational story of following her dream to become a French trained pastry chef – from childhood, to training in Paris, a job at The Ritz, opening Glacé, motherhood, and the future...
ISBN 9781922779427. Melbourne Books. pb. 240 pages. full colour. 21 x 23.5 cm.
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