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Salty Sweets: Delectable Desserts and Tempting Treats with a Sublime Kiss of Salt
By Christie Matheson
Harvard Common Press - 2009
If you are in need of a dessert cookbook, you could do far worse than to buy this.
8 chapters of recipes are accompanied by interesting chapters on methods, salts (wow are there ever a lot of different types!), and measurements.
The recipe chapters includes "little treats" which has things like salty-sweet s'mores, hot cocoa, and granola, Cookies and bars, cakes and cupcakes, puddings and more fruits ice creams and sorbets, and a final chapter on sauces. The recipes might be very similar to ones in other cookbooks, but with a tad more salt. I did, however, find the peanutbutter cookies to be rather different from any I had made before (much less flour, very delicate and light), and they were delightful. The sauces look amazing, and the thought of a salty s'more seems delightful.
The two tested recipes worked well, and the titles of others are very tempting. However, if you already have plenty of dessert recipes, you can probably figure out on your own how to amp up the saltiness.
13 Daughter pointed out to me that the first chapter, "little treats" can all be made without an oven - and so perhaps that is also useful information.