BraveTart

From an award-winning pastry chef and a James Beard Award nominated writer for Serious Eats,foolproof recipes and a fresh take on the history of American desserts, from chocolate chip cookies to toaster pastries.

From One-Bowl Devils Food Layer Cake to a flawless Cherry Pie thats crisp even on the very bottom,BraveTartis a celebration of classic American desserts. Whether down-home delights like Blueberry Muffins and Glossy Fudge Brownies or supermarket mainstays such as Vanilla Wafers and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream, your favorites are all here. These meticulously tested recipes bring an award-winning pastry chefs expertise into your kitchen, along with advice on how to mix it up with over 200 customizable variationsin short, exactly what youd expect from a cookbook penned by a senior editor at Serious Eats. Yet BraveTart is much more than a cookbook, as Stella Parks delves into the surprising stories of how our favorite desserts came to be, from chocolate chip cookies that predate the Tollhouse Inn to the prohibition-era origins of ice cream sodas and floats. With a foreword byThe Food Labs J. Kenji Lpez-Alt, vintage advertisements for these historical desserts, and breathtaking photography from Penny De Los Santos,BraveTartis sure to become an American classic.