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In What’s For Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People, the New York Times bestselling author of Dessert Person returns with 100 recipes for all dessert people—whether you’re into flambés, soufflés, or simple loaf cakes.

To keep the recipes straightforward and simple, Claire Saffitz makes sure each recipe is streamlined, whether you’re making a whipped tres leches cake with hazelnuts or caramel peanut popcorn bars, and includes ample troubleshooting advice. The over one million fans of Dessert Person and the eponymous YouTube companion series will find all the warmth, encouragement, and deliciously foolproof recipes they’ve come to count on from Saffitz.

Recipe highlights include salty brownie ice cream sandwiches, frosted sour cream cake donuts, blueberry buckle with cornflake streusel, banana-sesame cream tart, Eton mess two ways, and molten lava cakes. No stand mixer? No problem! You won’t need one.

In conversation with Joe Yonan, the food and dining editor of The Washington Post and author of Cool Beans, Eat Your Vegetables, and Serve Yourself.