Everyone Can Bake: Simple Recipes to Master and Mix

Shop Notes: I'm a little in love with this book, honestly.  I know, I know, I sell these cookbooks and I want you to buy every single one.  But, for a backseat pastry chef like me, I feel like Dominique Ansel is finally letting me into a club that I'd be happy to be a member of.  And that club is made of people who can really make both delicious and incredibly unique desserts and then just show up at a dinner party with their creation where they will certainly bask in the glow of folks talking about that dish for years to come.  Surely, this must have been what Rocky Balboa or John Paul Jones felt like at some point. Other cookbook authors (and certainly chefs) have tried to write similar books with, in my opinion, less success.  Ansel has provided readers with a series of core recipes that he uses as a baseline to riff different flavor and textural combinations on.  He also provides his thoughts and additional recipes for how to match complementary components, say mousses and syrups w