With over 150 delicious dessert recipes, from ice creams to cakes and from fruit desserts to petit fours, Le Cordon Bleu's "Pastry Techniques & Desserts" is a valuable guide for every cook and pastry chef. Fully illustrated book, with instructions and photos depicting each technique and recipe step by step, from the simplest to the most complex, guides the reader to create tasty and impressive desserts for every occasion. (...) [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]