Kjersti's Reviews > What's for Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People

Wow, this is one of the worst cookbooks I’ve ever read. First of all, it’s billed as an accessible cookbook and even makes a point to say all recipes can be made without a stand mixer because they’re too expensive and fussy. But then, the author says she likes kosher salt best and talks about two different kinds of kosher salt and how to measure/adjust for them and doesn’t provide any reference point for table salt. Other than she doesn’t like table salt because it’s iodized and most food tasters agree it tastes tinny. I think it is utterly ridiculous that NONE of the recipes have measurements for table salt - The one thing that everyone has in their pantry.

So I didn’t make any of the recipes, but flipping through I wasn’t inspired by the names or the pictures. The photographer was going for a retro esthetic so a lot of 70’s colors and food styling was used. It looked a lot like the old cookbooks I saw being used growing up, and not in a good way. There weren’t any “regular” recipes 😂 Like instead of brownies, there were chestnut brownies. What??

As a lover of dessert, I was upset after reading it. Do not recommend.