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100 Best Cakes and Desserts
Author(s): Gabriel Gaté (Author)
- Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
- Publication Date: 1 July 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 200 pages
- ISBN-10: 1742703860
- ISBN-13: 9781742703862
Book Description
Gabriel Gate’s latest cookbook celebrates his favourite cakes and desserts. With 100 easy-to-follow recipes it includes chapters on cakes, cremes and mousses, tarts and pies, fruity desserts, sorbets and ice creams and hot desserts, all using the freshest ingredients. This beautifully designed cookbook showcases firm family favourites, such as pavlova with exotic fruits, strawberry sponge cake and waffles; French classics such as creme caramel, tarte tatin and French crepes; and more sophisticated delights such as mandarin sorbet, blood orange mousse and hazlenut meringue cake. Each recipe contains Gabriel’s unique style and flair that has made him one of Australia’s best loved home-style cooks. Supported by over 60 colour photographs, including step-by-step shots and a basics chapter for pastry, creams and sauces, 100 Best Cakes and Desserts is a delightfully sweet cookbook that is sure to appeal to fans of desserts and Gabriel’s recipes alike.
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About the Author
Gabriel Gaté is a French-trained chef with an international reputation as an author, television presenter and cookery teacher. Born in the Loire Valley of France, where his father grew all the family’s fruit and vegetables and made wine from the small family vineyard, Gabriel learned the joys of cooking from his maternal grandmother, who was an excellent cook. As a young chef, Gabriel learned to cook from some of the finest French chefs before leaving France with his Australian-born wife, Angie. In recent years he has returned to writing about his homeland, France and the food he grew up with. He is the author of 22 cookbooks, including 100 Best Cakes and Desserts and Taste Le Tour. Gabriel travels to France every year to make a television cooking and travel series which screens during the Tour de France on Australian national television. As well he often takes groups on gastronomic tours of France.
