December 1, 2015
Can't get enough of salted caramel ice creams and coffee drinks? Try these 40-plus desserts featuring gourmet sea salts such as fleur de sel, sel gris, and Hawaiian black lava salt. To help readers understand available varieties, baking blogger Baird (Sprinklebakes) provides a guide to salt textures (coarse, fine grain, flake), a glossary, and a list of online suppliers. The author organizes her recipes by amount of salt; bakers who prefer just a pinch can try treats such as butterscotch budino tiramisu and caramel buttermilk tart with cornmeal crust, while serious salt lovers may turn to the more aggressively seasoned smoke and stout chocolate torte and candied Kalamata olives. VERDICT Bakers who like desserts with a savory twist will enjoy this cookbook, along with Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin's Ovenly.
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