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All-American Desserts seems to contain at least one example of every single dessert that could be considered to be American. Some are inherently American, notable the cookies and many regional desserts, but all are unquestionably loved by Americans - as well as by other dessert-lovers, too! The recipes are all straight-forward and easy to follow, with iconic recipes such as Grits Pudding with Roasted Apples, Shoofly Pie, Chocolate Chip Cookies and Berry Cobblers, to updated takes on favorites, like Persimmon and Apple "Pot Pie" and Lemon Blackberry Crumble Ice Cream.

The only drawback to the book is that there are no pictures of the recipes inside to tempt you. The book more than makes up for this by incorporating the histories of almost all the recipes, as well as spotlights on ingredients, cooking tips and assorted other trivia. The writing is actually a better feature than photographs because, with 400 recipes, a second volume would have been required to hold them all. Besides, with so many recipes to choose from, reading the table of contents should be more than enough to inspire you.

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All across the country, there are desserts that are well-recognized and much beloved. From deep-dish apple pie to devil's food cake, The All-American Dessert Book is a collection of recipes for these favorite sweets, collected from diners and home chefs around the county who produced the finest versions of the desserts. After extensive testing, all those recipes were narrowed down to the best 150.

While the recipes themselves are all of very high quality, so are both the writing and the photography. Author Nancy Baggett gives very, very detailed instructions for each recipe making them virtually fool proof - barring some unfortunate kitchen malfunction, of course. She makes suggestions about ingredients and gives lots of tips that will help bakers in the long run. Along with the actual instructions, each dish is accompanied by a little story of its origin or some notes about where in the country this particular version came from.

Some of the recipes, like Maple Sugar on Snow, are for regional favorites and others, like blueberry buckles and kettle corn, are popular just about everywhere. You won't find any "diet" recipes in this book, but the pictures are enough to make you stick to whatever diet you follow just to have an excuse to indulge.

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