The Magnolia Bakery Handbook of Icebox Desserts: A Complete Guide for the Home Baker, Vol. Two

Lloyd (The Magnolia Bakery Handbook), the principal baker at New York City’s Magnolia Bakery, presents a comprehensive compendium of 100 fuss-free chilled desserts. Pulled from the bakery’s selection of cakes, pies, cheesecakes, bars, and puddings, the recipes are wide-ranging and easy to assemble. For coffee lovers, there’s mocha icebox cake with cocoa and espresso-laced whipped cream, Oreos, and chocolate chips. Strawberry shortcake icebox bars and apple crisp bars reinterpret classic fruit desserts while s’mores icebox cake draws inspiration from the favorite campfire treat. Pumpkin spice pudding shines with warm spices and swirls of cookie butter. Red velvet and key lime cheesecakes require a bit of oven time, but then freeze beautifully. Magnolia Bakery’s famous banana pudding, featuring a cream cheese base layered with bananas and Nilla wafers, appears throughout in cakes, pies, and bars forms, culminating in a chapter showcasing 13 riffs on the classic. Lloyd also includes an extensive guide to essential baking tools, techniques, and pantry ingredients along with multipurpose base recipes for cookies, crusts, and fillings. This proves a quality how-to. (Apr.)