Dandy Desserts

Reviewed by: Christine Bulsa-O'Meara - Buxton Center Elementary School, Buxton, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: October 8, 2014

Review

This bright, inviting book will have young cooks baking with adult supervision in no time. The easy to follow step-by-step recipes are mostly laid out in a double page spread with photography of the finished item, giving cooks an idea of what products should look like. Enhancing the book are several pages at the front which cover: what to do before you start, safety tips, an illustrated page of cooking tools, cooking terms, and how to measure. Recipe directions are easy to follow and some do not even require cooking, or just use of the microwave (see instant chocolate cake p. 15 yumm). Ages five to eight could easily use this book with an adult, and older readers could follow these steps independently, needing supervision for cutting and cooking elements. I can never keep enough dessert cookbooks in the library. This is surely one to add to the collection, along with the other eleven in the series.

Overall Book Score: excellent