
"How to Cook That is the most popular Australian cooking channel in all the world, and it's not hard to see why." ―PopSugar
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Offering a fun-filled step-by-step dessert cookbook, Ann Reardon teaches you how to create delicious and impressive pastries, cakes and sweet creations.
Join food scientist Ann Reardon, host of the award-winning YouTube series How to Cook That, as she explores Crazy Sweet Creations. An accomplished pastry chef, Reardon draws millions of baking fans together each week, eager to learn the secrets of her extravagant cakes, chocolates, and eye-popping desserts. Her warmth and sense of fun in the kitchen shines through on every page as she reveals the science behind recreating your own culinary masterpieces.
For home cooks and fans who love their desserts, cakes, and ice creams to look amazing and taste even better. Take your culinary creations to influencer status.
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Readers of dessert cookbooks like Dessert Person, Sally's Cookie Addiction, Tartine, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic Cookbook, or 100 Cookies will love How to Cook That: Crazy Sweet Creations.
"A great cookbook that offers a variety of delicious treats. Recommended for intermediate to advanced bakers."
―Holly Skir, Broward City Library, Library Journal
"Edible engineering meets wow-factor whimsy in this debut dessert guide from Aussie Youtube baker Reardon. Her food science background brings depth to just about every recipe, noting things such as how different fats affect a cake's flavor and what the addition of gelatin does for its structure (promoting aeration and a soft crumb).... The lessons and engaging spirit of this work are as much a treat as their results."
―Publishers Weekly
"Ann Reardon is one of the sweetest bakers on YouTube. Her experience as a food scientist takes her confections to the next level; they are as creative as they are delicious. You will thoroughly enjoy every mouth-watering page of her first cookbook."
―Rosanna Pansino, author of The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook: Sweet Treats for the Geek in All of Us
"Hoping to make beautiful and delectable confections accessible to bakers of all levels, Ann Reardon, host of the award-winning YouTube series How to Cook That, presents Crazy Sweet Creations. In her step-by step cookbook, Ann shares secrets for making desserts into works of edible art. Soon you'll have mastered everything from the simple Mint Chocolate Mousse to the more epic Sugar Snow Globe Dessert and Coffee Donut Millefeuille..."
"Ann Reardon possesses a unique set of talents. On her YouTube channel, How to Cook That, the Melbourne-based food scientist, pastry chef and dietitian applies her skills to debunking viral videos and hacks, decoding 200-year-old marshmallow recipes, figuring out if the Minecraft cake formula works as well in real life as it does in the video game series, and illustrating how to fix epic cake fails..."