📚 Desserts

The sweet finish: pastry, confection, and the plating of the last course.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject desserts in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	On baking	Sarah R. Labensky	2004	26
	Grand livre de cuisine	Alain Ducasse	2002	17
	Real fast puddings	Nigel Slater	1993	12
	Best of Favorite Recipes from Quilters	Louise Stoltzfus	1994	9
	The pastry chef's companion	Glenn Rinsky	2008	8
	The simple art of perfect baking	Flo Braker	1985	7
	Ready for dessert	David Lebovitz	2010	7
	The professional pastry chef	Bo Friberg	1984	6
	I'm dreaming of a chocolate Christmas	Marcel Desaulniers	2007	6
	Sweet invention	Michael Krondl	2011	6
	The Brown Betty cookbook	Linda Hinton Brown	2012	6
	Plating for gold	Tish Boyle	2012	6
	Practically Raw Desserts	Amber Shea Crawley	2013	6
	Sunset Cook Book of Desserts	Sunset Books	1968	5
	Chez Panisse Desserts	Lindsey Remolif Shere	1985	5
	Harrods Book of Cakes & Desserts	Pat Alburey	1986	5
	Maida Heatter's book of great desserts	Maida Heatter	1974	4
	Golde's Homemade Cookies	Golde Hoffman Soloway	1984	4
	Desserts	Nancy Silverton	1986	4
	Country desserts	Lee Bailey	1988	4
	From America's Favorite Kitchens	Unknown author	1989	4
	Sweet Miniatures	Flo Braker	1991	4
	Baking	Dorie Greenspan	2006	4
	Baking and Pastry	Culinary Institute of America.	2009	4
	Nestle Toll House Recipe Collection	Nestle	1988	3
	Nick Malgieri's Perfect Pastry	Nick Malgieri	1989	3
	The Wooden Spoon Dessert Book	Marilyn M. Moore	1990	3
	Pillsbury: Best of the Bake-Off Cookbook	Pillsbury Company.	1996	3
	Mrs. Fields best ever cookie book!	Debbi Fields	1997	3
	Basic Baking	Lora Brody	2000	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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