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Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi
Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi | Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh
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A collection of over 110 recipes for sweets, baked goods, and confections from superstar chef Yotam Ottolenghi. Yotam Ottolenghi is widely beloved in the food world for his beautiful, inspirational, and award-winning cookbooks, as well as his London delis and fine dining restaurant. And while he's known for his savory and vegetarian dishes, he actually started out his cooking career as a pastry chef. Sweet is entirely filled with delicious baked goods, desserts, and confections starring Ottolenghi's signature flavor profiles and ingredients including fig, rose petal, saffron, orange blossom, star anise, pistachio, almond, cardamom, and cinnamon. A baker's dream, Sweet features simple treats such as Chocolate, Banana, and Pecan cookies and Rosemary Olive Oil Orange Cake, alongside recipes for showstopping confections such as Cinnamon Pavlova with Praline Cream and Fresh Figs and Flourless Chocolate Layer Cake with Coffee, Walnut, and Rosewater.
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LubicaP
Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi | Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh
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In which Mr Ottolenghi's chocolate cake gets a warm chestnut puree blanket :-)

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LubicaP
Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi | Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh
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Another one from Mr Ottolenghi's book. I prefer the chocolate cake but this one got good feedback too :-) And the mango icing is a fun touch.

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Lindy
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I LOVE this dessert cookbook! ❤️ Notable:
✅Use of savoury herbs (sage, tarragon, bay leaves, basil, thyme, rosemary, saffron, juniper berries)
✅Roasting fruits beforehand (rhubarb, plums, cherries, apricots, strawberries)
✅Halva as an ingredient in baking
✅Use of vanilla seeds instead of extract
✅Cakes baked in tin cans & sliced into rounds
✅Unusual ingredients: date syrup, Italian 00 flour, quince paste, mahleb (ground kernel of St Lucie cherry)

tpixie How intriguing and adventurous!! 🎂 6y
HardcoverHearts I have decided that his restaurant is one I want to visit this year when we hit London. I‘m so excited! 6y
KarenUK I love this book... picked up a signed copy at BN on Black Friday.... 💕💕 6y
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Lindy @tpixie Yes, indeed! 6y
Lindy @HardcoverHearts Excellent plan! Report back via Litsy so that we can share your experience vicariously, ok? 6y
Lindy @KarenUK I‘m sad about returning it to the library. I made copious notes and I‘m sure I will check it out again. 6y
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LubicaP
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I can confirm that Mr Ottolenghi's chocolate cake recipe is amazing. I substituted chocolate frosting with a Nutella variant and added some Ferrero as tonight's dinner was on an Italian theme.

alvingregorio I want 6y
batsy Yum!! 6y
Dragon That cake looks fabulous! I bet it was yummy! 🐉 6y
LubicaP It disappeared in about 20 minutes... 6y
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Lindy
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I used the fruit purée buttercream recipe from this cookbook to frost a birthday cake. It‘s a French style buttercream that requires drizzling hot sugar syrup into beaten egg yolks before incorporating cubes of soft butter. Trickier than I expected; I ended up with sugar syrup stuck hard to the side of the bowl, impossible to fully mix into the custard, so the icing isn‘t as sweet as it should have been. I will pretend that was my intention. ?

emilyhaldi It‘s gorgeous though!! 💕 6y
Bklover It looks beautiful! 6y
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merelybookish Looks delish! 6y
Lcsmcat Wow, that‘s beautiful. 6y
batsy It looks magnificent! And we all need a little less sugar in our lives 😉 6y
Lindy @RaimeyGallant @emilyhaldi @Bklover @merelybookish @Lcsmcat @batsy Thanks everyone! The cake was a hit. Birthday celebrant said she has been known to eat chocolate cake spread with butter, so this icing was perfect for her. 😋 6y
Dragon What a lovely colour frosting! So pretty! 6y
Simona 🤤😋🤤😋🤤 6y
Lindy @Dragon Thanks! The colour comes from mixed-fruit jam (blackberry/raspberry/sour cherry), strained through a sieve to get just the liquid part. 6y
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Lindy
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Any fans of star anise out there? It‘s not my favourite. I would substitute something else in the recipes that call for it in this cookbook, which include pineapple tartlets with pandan (above), shortbread with orange, friands with blackberries, cheesecake with passion fruit, and chiffon cake with pineapple.

tournevis Cardamome 6y
ReadingEnvy What did you use for pandan, could you actually find it? I think cinnamon or allspice would be an okay substitute for star anise. 6y
Simona I think so too @tournevis 6y
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Lindy @ReadingEnvy I didn‘t make the tartlets (the photo is from the book) but I‘ve seen fresh and frozen pandan at my local Chinese supermarket. Vanilla can be used as a substitute flavour for pandan. (edited) 6y
Lindy @tournevis @simona @ReadingEnvy Yes, cardamom and cinnamon are my favourite spices, so I would use them instead of star anise. 6y
tournevis @Lindy It's going to make a very different dessert, though 6y
KathyR The Spiceography website recommends either anise or fennel for a much milder licorice taste or allspice for an exotic and sweeter taste. 6y
ReadingEnvy @Lindy I looked for fresh and frozen at my local asian supermarkets but could only find the canned (imitation) and flavoring (also imitation)... Dang! 6y
Lindy @tournevis @KathyR I used ground fennel seed to replace aniseed in a cookie recipe from this book. I just like cardamom so much, with or without cinnamon, that I wouldn‘t hesitate to use it instead of star anise in baking. 6y
tournevis @Lindy Ground fennel seed is a great idea! 6y
Lindy @ReadingEnvy 😕Too bad. My store has all kinds of unusual produce like lettuce stems, 10 different leafy greens, and fresh kaffir lime leaves. They also carry a toasted ground sesame paste that I prefer instead of tahini. 6y
ReadingEnvy @Lindy oh interesting, what do they leave out that makes it different from tahini? 6y
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Lindy
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One of the Tahini and Halva Brownies from the tagged cookbook fell apart when I was transferring them to a plate. It‘s time for a break from cleaning and baking in preparation for tonight‘s poetry salon, so I have taken the opportunity to taste test. Instructions are to take the brownies out of the oven when there‘s still a slight wobble in the middle and it‘s still gooey inside. They do firm up after they are cool.

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Lindy
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My latest baking adventure: speculaas from the tagged cookbook. 😊

Simona 😋😋😋 I want to be your neighbor 😘 6y
Miss_Kim I love speculaas but have never have homemade! These look delicious 😋 6y
Lindy @Simona @Miss_Kim Thanks. I sent some with my sweetie to give to her taxi driver. The rest will be for our poetry salon tonight. ☺️ 6y
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Lindy
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Another success (well, haven‘t tasted it yet, but it seems like it will be good) from the tagged cookbook. It‘s a Vineyard Cake, made with grapes, olive oil and dessert wine.

Mdargusch That sounds amazing! 6y
LeahBergen Wow! ❤️ 6y
JazzFeathers 😲😍😍😍 6y
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mauveandrosysky Whoa! That looks/sounds so good. 6y
Lindy @mauveandrosysky @JazzFeathers @LeahBergen @Mdargusch It‘s for a poetry salon that we will be hosting at home two days from now. The recipe says it keeps well for 4 days, so my fingers are crossed. 6y
vivastory This looks insanely delicious! 6y
Kimzey 😋 Yum! 6y
CoffeeCatsBooks Looks great! 6y
Redwritinghood Looks yummy. And huge! Is it heavy? 6y
Lindy @Redwritinghood It‘s not heavy for its size; it has 4 eggs fluffing it up. 🥚🥚🥚🥚 6y
batsy Yum! How can we have some? 😁💜 6y
Lindy @batsy Too bad you live so far away. I would invite you to our poetry salon. 😘 6y
batsy @Lindy I know :( I'll be there in spirit, hovering near the cake 😆❤️ 6y
Lindy @batsy I will try to remember to take a photo of the food table before the event starts. With special filters, I might spot you hovering. 😉 6y
Tanisha_A That looks scrumptious! 😍 6y
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Lindy
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Did some baking this morning while I listened to an audiobook. The recipe is Lemon & Poppy Seed Cake from the tagged book, but I didn‘t feel like trudging through snow to the grocery store, so I used what I had on hand: lime instead of lemon; perilla seed instead of poppy seed; yogurt instead of heavy cream. Turned out delicious. 😋

Lindy @Bklover @lcsmcat In wintery weather, audiobaking is as satisfying as curling up with a book, with a treat bonus at the end. 😊 6y
Bklover Looks delicious!! 6y
ferskner Nice! I love that creativity and ingredient know-how. 6y
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Lcsmcat Yum! That looks delicious! 6y
LeahBergen I want a slice. 😍 6y
Lindy @Bklover @ferksner @Lcsmcat @LeahBergen My strategy to avoid eating too much cake is this: I took some to the neighbours on either side of me and wrapped some up for the friends who are giving me a ride to the play we will see this afternoon. If you were here, you could have some too. 😊 6y
LauraBeth This looks delicious! 6y
Lindy @LauraBeth Thanks. And it‘s all gone; friends stopped in and helped finish it off. 6y
minkyb Yum! 6y
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Lindy
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I need a bunch of special occasions because there are so many recipes I want to try, including Beet, Ginger & Sour Cream Cake. It calls for a crushed tablet of vitamin C, used to help preserve and set the brilliant colour of beets in the cake.

Soubhiville Oh my gosh, I want to try that! Looks and sounds delish! Where‘d you get the recipe? 6y
Lindy @Soubhiville The tagged book. I can‘t eat a lot of sweets but I want to try so many of these recipes! Friends are going to have cakes showing up on their doorsteps. 6y
Andrea4 It's always a special occassion when there's a cake 😜 6y
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LeahBergen That sounds amazing. 6y
KathyR I hope your enthusiasm for the recipes lasts until my April visit to Edmonton - I'd love to relieve you of some that cake excess ☺️. 6y
Lindy @KathyR Good idea. 😁 6y
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Lindy
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Chocolate O Cookies made for tonight‘s Feminist Book Club. (The filling is a water ganache flavoured with mandarin peel, cinnamon and red pepper flakes.) We will be discussing Ariel Levy‘s The Rules Do Not Apply.

emilyhaldi Those cookies sound amazing!! 🤤 6y
hermyknee 😍 6y
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AmyG Yum is right! 6y
Lindy @emilyhaldi @hermyknee @CoffeeCatsBooks @AmyG I‘ve eaten two. Quality control. 😋 Now I must leave them alone until tonight. 😊 6y
Soubhiville Those look sooooo good! 6y
DeborahSmall Those look and sound amazing ❤️ 6y
LeahBergen Oooo! 😍😍 6y
Lindy @Soubhiville @DeborahSmall @LeahBergen If there are leftovers, I will invite you all to come get some tomorrow. 😁 6y
Soubhiville Lol, thank you! 6y
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Lindy
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Cookbook has won over true crime for breakfast reading. Free carrot cupcake (the bakery was closing when I went in yesterday) has won over oatmeal for breakfast eating.

AmyG Yum 6y
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Lindy
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Banana cakes with rum caramel

Banana bread can sometimes feel like the place overripe bananas go when no one else wants them. These decadent cakes, on the other hand, feel like the place they go to party, a bottle of rum in hand.

Suet624 😂😂 6y
mcipher Whooo!! Banana rum party! 6y
debthmpsn I‘m a sucker for gorgeous cook l bakery books. Adding to my ever growing TBR :) 6y
Redwritinghood Want! 😋😋 6y
Lindy @Suet624 @mcipher @debthmpsn @Redwritinghood Doesn‘t that look yummy? The food photography in this cookbook is great. 6y
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Lindy
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I like the authors‘ advice, given “rolling pin in hand, waving it in the air for emphasis,” to bake and rebake the same recipe over and over in order to investigate your own tweaks. “Bake something enough times for it to become yours. Then you can move on to the next one of ours.” I‘m always tweaking when I‘m in the kitchen; it‘s the place where I feel the most creative.

Simone62 I love the tweaks you come up with in the kitchen. It is always a delicious treat to share in something you have made. 6y
Lindy @Simone62 Thanks! You are an inveterate tweaker also. 😘 6y
Simone62 Sometimes that leads me into trouble. "What? There's cardamom in this too?" Or my knitting project doesn't fit (just cause I changed the stitch, the yarn, and the gauge...) 6y
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Lindy @Simone62 Do you have a cardamom hater in your house too? 6y
Simone62 Only when G or I get carried away 😬 (we both LOVE it - and nutmeg!) 6y
Lindy @Simone62 Laurie is finely attuned to any hint of either cardamom or nutmeg. Makes me sad. (edited) 6y
Simone62 I added them both to warm milk last night :) 6y
Lindy @Simone62 👍👍 6y
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LubicaP
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For the record, I resisted the urge to buy this book for two weeks. A doomed effort from the start. I mean, just look at the cover...

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karenmusic
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It's finally coming! I cannot wait to get this in my kitchen.

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UnabridgedTomes
Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi | Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh
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One of my rare dessert disasters: I offer my kid's fourth birthday cake for his party tomorrow. All the components taste delicious. Yellow butter cake ✔️ boiled fudge frosting ✔️ Leaning Tower of Pisa ✔️

DebinHawaii It looks delicious still. I definitely want to lick the frosting! 😋 7y
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Mel
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Patiently waiting for this one to come out - October 2017! #sweet #junebookbugs

AmandaL I recently bought 3 of his cookbooks. This looks good! 7y
Mel @AmandaL Jerusalem is one of my favorite ones! On Facebook, Food52 Cookbook club has been cooking from his cookbooks all month. If you love to cook, I highly recommend requesting to join it :) 7y
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wanderaven
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I rarely #galleybrag but I'm so damn excited to be given this. Will keep my physical book pre-order in place but sooooooo excited about getting an early opportunity for this one!!