Overview

"The sumptuous debut cookbook from celebrated baker, activist, and pastry ""it girl"" Natasha Pickowicz Natasha Pickowicz is a creative force in the world of baking. Her pastries are uniquely delicious and surprising. She's picked up three James Beard Award nominations for her time as a professional pastry chef. Her buzzy bake sales for Planned Parenthood and other nonprofits have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now she shares her recipes and baking know-how in a debut cookbook brimming with the energy, passion, joy, knowledge, and spirit of generosity that define her work. The recipes are fresh and uncomplicated, drawing on the author's Chinese and Californian heritage. She pairs nectarine and miso in a tarte tatin and makes a layer cake with olive oil, mascarpone, and fennel. Black cardamom gets tucked into pecan sticky buns, and galettes go savoury with kabocha squash. And she's a born teacher. Of course pastry requires a real focus on detail and technique, but the author is here at every step with invaluable tips: underbeat meringue; boil your plum stones to extract even more plum flavour; look for ""first-press"" yuzu juice; for the flakiest pie dough, first freeze your butter, then use a grater to get perfect shreds. More Than Cake means baking to bring people together. It calls on you to prioritize pleasure. As the author writes, ""Dessert is beyond simple calories and nutrition. . . . It spreads delight in a way that no other kind of dish can. This is something I think people really need-it's not optional."" It's a philosophy to live by."

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Author:   Natasha Pickowicz
Publisher:   Workman Publishing
Imprint:   Artisan Books
Dimensions:   Width: 21.40cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 25.60cm
Weight:   1.300kg
ISBN:  

9781648290541

ISBN 10:   164829054
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   11 April 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS   Introduction Essential Tools   Never-Ending Cookies Citrusy Macaroons Nubby Granola Shortbread Fennel, Chocolate, and Hazelnut Spears Shoyu Peanut Cookies Brown Butter and Buckwheat Chocolate Chunk Cookies Pine Nut Sablés with Taleggio Coffee-Hazelnut Linzers with Kumquat Filling Black Sesame Fortune Cookies Sour Glaze Maple Gingerbread   Sweet and Salty Snacks Tangy Lemon Verbena Chips Passion Fruit Jellies Caramelized White Chocolate and Coconut Truffles Malted Cocoa Fudge Golden Sesame Candy Pizza Crackers Flaky Poppy Seed Cracker with Whipped Feta Cheddar Oatcakes Fennel Seed Squiggles   Single Layer Cakes Carrot and Coconut Cake Cocoa and Chicory Sheet Cake Dappled Date Cake Crunchy Almond Cake Jammy Coffee Cake Olive Oil Cake with Crispy Capers and Orange Vinaigrette Passion Fruit Roll-Up Cake Sticky Fig Cake Toasted Vanilla Bean Pound Cake   Modern Layer Cakes Soaking Cakes No-Soak Cakes Soaks Creamy and Rich Fillings Tangy and Bright Fillings Crunchy and Salty Fillings Frostings Cake Sets Passion Fruit, Coconut, and Tequila Layer Cake Black Sesame, Cream Cheese, and Pineapple Sheet Cake Olive Oil, Mascarpone, and Fennel Layer Cake Almond, Green Tea, and Blueberry Bombe Espresso, Hazelnut, Chocolate, and Honey Cake   Fruit Expressions Pineapple Tile Galette Triple Apple Tart Checkered Rhubarb Tart Sour Cherry and Sunflower Pie Stone Plum Nests Nectarine Miso Tarte Tatin Sunchoke and Apricot Pie Still Life Tart Baking with Vegetables Kabocha Galette Half Moon-Pie Miso Soup Danish Mushroom, Cheddar, and Apple Tart Apricot and Olive Focaccia Lemony Squash Pizzettes Bathed Pie Greens and Apple Stromboli   Creamy, Elegant Desserts Panna Cotta and Grated Melon Caramel Chocolate Chip Bombe Cheesecake and Plum Syrup Star Anise and Vanilla Bean Crème Brûlée Rose Water and Mezcal Flan Chamomile Puff Crown Chocolate and Earl Grey Mousse Adzuki Bean and Brown Butter Pie   Yeasted Treats Twisty Fruit and Nut Buns Tutti-Frutti Tart Pecan and Black Cardamom Sticky Buns Leafy Dinner Rolls Buttered Cucumber Sliders Overnight Blackberry Doughnuts Date-Swirled Brown Brioche   First-Light Bakes Terrazzo Bread Spiced Rutabaga Loaf Millet, Parsnip, and Chocolate Chunk Muffins Corn Husk Muffins Peach Cocktail Skillet Big Green Salad Scones Scallion Pancake Biscuits Sweet Onion and Sesame Gougères Mocha Latte Puffs   Resources Acknowledgments Index

Reviews

Natasha takes the natural yet whimsical aesthetic, unique sweet-and-savory flavor combinations, and technical mastery that have made her a pastry chef 's pastry chef and translates them into approachable, achievable recipes for the home baker. -Claire Saffitz, author of What's for Dessert It's almost impossible to capture the reciprocal joy that comes from making and sharing beautiful baked goods with friends-oh wait, Natasha Pickowicz has done it perfectly, right here. -Carla Lalli Music, author of That Sounds So Good and Where Cooking Begins One of the most inspiring baking books and a stunning piece of work that every home baker needs on their bookshelf. -Kristina Cho, author of Mooncakes and Milk Bread Natasha's dedication to bringing people together through food to benefit community is widely known and admired, and this book showcases her love for the art and craft of simple, beautiful pastry, with a particular talent for combining the traditional with surprise elements to create something wholly new. -Liz Prueitt, chef/owner, Tartine Bakery Natasha's respect for ingredients (the fruit section reads as a love letter), genius ingredient pairings (see Olive Oil Cake with Crispy Capers), and ability to balance aspirational with accessible make this book a must-have and prove that-not to be redundant-it is so much more than cake. -Antoni Porowski, author of Antoni: Let's Do Dinner In the Natasha Pickowicz weltanschauung, mottled radicchio is a layer cake garnish, the bake sale is a middle finger of defiance, you make your own condensed milk (say what?), Parker House rolls are fig leafed, and Mom does all the illustrations. -Brooks Headley, chef/operator,Superiority Burger In More Than Cake, Natasha has collected delicious recipes that perfectly reflect her originality and sense of whimsy. Inspired! -Claudia Fleming, author of Delectable Think of More Than Cake as your guide to capturing the happiness of baking, the pleasure of making something fabulously delicious with your hands and your heart, and the satisfaction of sharing what you've made with others. -Dorie Greenspan, author of Baking with Dorie Pickowicz's melodic prose makes you want to curl up with her book, a cup of tea, and one of her pecan and black cardamom buns and revel in the originality of such outside-the-box recipes. -Booklist Natasha takes the natural yet whimsical aesthetic, unique sweet-and-savory flavor combinations, and technical mastery that have made her a pastry chef 's pastry chef and translates them into approachable, achievable recipes for the home baker. -Claire Saffitz, author of What's for Dessert It's almost impossible to capture the reciprocal joy that comes from making and sharing beautiful baked goods with friends-oh wait, Natasha Pickowicz has done it perfectly, right here. -Carla Lalli Music, author of That Sounds So Good and Where Cooking Begins One of the most inspiring baking books and a stunning piece of work that every home baker needs on their bookshelf. -Kristina Cho, author of Mooncakes and Milk Bread Natasha's dedication to bringing people together through food to benefit community is widely known and admired, and this book showcases her love for the art and craft of simple, beautiful pastry, with a particular talent for combining the traditional with surprise elements to create something wholly new. -Liz Prueitt, chef/owner, Tartine Bakery Natasha's respect for ingredients (the fruit section reads as a love letter), genius ingredient pairings (see Olive Oil Cake with Crispy Capers), and ability to balance aspirational with accessible make this book a must-have and prove that-not to be redundant-it is so much more than cake. -Antoni Porowski, author of Antoni: Let's Do Dinner In the Natasha Pickowicz weltanschauung, mottled radicchio is a layer cake garnish, the bake sale is a middle finger of defiance, you make your own condensed milk (say what?), Parker House rolls are fig leafed, and Mom does all the illustrations. -Brooks Headley, chef/operator,Superiority Burger In More Than Cake, Natasha has collected delicious recipes that perfectly reflect her originality and sense of whimsy. Inspired! -Claudia Fleming, author of Delectable Think of More Than Cake as your guide to capturing the happiness of baking, the pleasure of making something fabulously delicious with your hands and your heart, and the satisfaction of sharing what you've made with others. -Dorie Greenspan, author of Baking with Dorie It's hard to pick just one thing to love about pastry maven and activist Natasha Pickowicz's long-awaited debut cookbook, so I won't even try. . . . This is the baking book of the year. -Food Wine Celebrated for her fine-dining pastry work and fundraiser bake sales, Natasha Pickowicz brings a community spirit to this soulfully precise book. -Vanity Fair From simple yet surprising recipes to total showstoppers, [Pickowicz]'ll change the way you think about baking with her unexpected flavors and combinations, like pecan sticky buns with cardamom and nectarine and miso tarte tatin. Especially fun: the build-your-own layer cake section with various sponges, soaks, fillings, and buttercreams. -Simply Recipes Pickowicz's melodic prose makes you want to curl up with her book, a cup of tea, and one of her pecan and black cardamom buns and revel in the originality of such outside-the-box recipes. -Booklist Natasha takes the natural yet whimsical aesthetic, unique sweet-and-savory flavor combinations, and technical mastery that have made her a pastry chef 's pastry chef and translates them into approachable, achievable recipes for the home baker. -Claire Saffitz, author of What's for Dessert It's almost impossible to capture the reciprocal joy that comes from making and sharing beautiful baked goods with friends-oh wait, Natasha Pickowicz has done it perfectly, right here. -Carla Lalli Music, author of That Sounds So Good and Where Cooking Begins One of the most inspiring baking books and a stunning piece of work that every home baker needs on their bookshelf. -Kristina Cho, author of Mooncakes and Milk Bread Natasha's dedication to bringing people together through food to benefit community is widely known and admired, and this book showcases her love for the art and craft of simple, beautiful pastry, with a particular talent for combining the traditional with surprise elements to create something wholly new. -Liz Prueitt, chef/owner, Tartine Bakery Natasha's respect for ingredients (the fruit section reads as a love letter), genius ingredient pairings (see Olive Oil Cake with Crispy Capers), and ability to balance aspirational with accessible make this book a must-have and prove that-not to be redundant-it is so much more than cake. -Antoni Porowski, author of Antoni: Let's Do Dinner In the Natasha Pickowicz weltanschauung, mottled radicchio is a layer cake garnish, the bake sale is a middle finger of defiance, you make your own condensed milk (say what?), Parker House rolls are fig leafed, and Mom does all the illustrations. -Brooks Headley, chef/operator,Superiority Burger In More Than Cake, Natasha has collected delicious recipes that perfectly reflect her originality and sense of whimsy. Inspired! -Claudia Fleming, author of Delectable Think of More Than Cake as your guide to capturing the happiness of baking, the pleasure of making something fabulously delicious with your hands and your heart, and the satisfaction of sharing what you've made with others. -Dorie Greenspan, author of Baking with Dorie

Natasha takes the natural yet whimsical aesthetic, unique sweet-and-savory flavor combinations, and technical mastery that have made her a pastry chef 's pastry chef and translates them into approachable, achievable recipes for the home baker. -Claire Saffitz, author of What's for Dessert It's almost impossible to capture the reciprocal joy that comes from making and sharing beautiful baked goods with friends-oh wait, Natasha Pickowicz has done it perfectly, right here. -Carla Lalli Music, author of That Sounds So Good and Where Cooking Begins One of the most inspiring baking books and a stunning piece of work that every home baker needs on their bookshelf. -Kristina Cho, author of Mooncakes and Milk Bread Natasha's dedication to bringing people together through food to benefit community is widely known and admired, and this book showcases her love for the art and craft of simple, beautiful pastry, with a particular talent for combining the traditional with surprise elements to create something wholly new. -Liz Prueitt, chef/owner, Tartine Bakery Natasha's respect for ingredients (the fruit section reads as a love letter), genius ingredient pairings (see Olive Oil Cake with Crispy Capers), and ability to balance aspirational with accessible make this book a must-have and prove that-not to be redundant-it is so much more than cake. -Antoni Porowski, author of Antoni: Let's Do Dinner In the Natasha Pickowicz weltanschauung, mottled radicchio is a layer cake garnish, the bake sale is a middle finger of defiance, you make your own condensed milk (say what?), Parker House rolls are fig leafed, and Mom does all the illustrations. -Brooks Headley, chef/operator,Superiority Burger In More Than Cake, Natasha has collected delicious recipes that perfectly reflect her originality and sense of whimsy. Inspired! -Claudia Fleming, author of Delectable Think of More Than Cake as your guide to capturing the happiness of baking, the pleasure of making something fabulously delicious with your hands and your heart, and the satisfaction of sharing what you've made with others. -Dorie Greenspan, author of Baking with Dorie

Author Information

Natasha Pickowicz is a New York City-based chef and writer. She is a three-time James Beard Foundation Award finalist. Much of her pastry work explores the relationship between baking and social justice, including ongoing collaborations with seminal New York City institutions like Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, God's Love We Deliver, the Brigid Alliance, and Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, for whom she produced a massive city-wide bake sale, raising more than $150,000 between 2017 and 2019. Currently, Pickowicz runs the pastry pop-up called Never Ending Taste, which has been held at NYC's Superiority Burger, Brooklyn's the Four Horsemen, the American-Vietnamese bakery Ba. n B., the Taiwanese tearoom T. Company, Los Angeles's Kismet, and the legendary Chino Farm in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Pickowicz's recipes and writing have been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bon App.tit, Saveur, Food & Wine, New York magazine, Cherry Bombe, and many other publications. Follow her on Instagram at @natashapickowicz.

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