My desserts look boring because I am not creative
342960
I belong to a garden club and everyone brings these fancy decorated desserts to meetings.  My desserts look boring because I am not creative.  Using the AnnyMart 3D orchid flower and their leave mold was so easy to use that I could even do it.  I melted the chocolate with a little heavy cream in the microwave using my melt setting.  I was able to get a texture I was happy with.  It was easier to take out of the mold with no damage to the flower.  It looks great and I am excited to bring a cupcakes with orchids on them.  I received this product at a discounted rate for my honest review.
869796
I have tried 3 recipes and perused most of the book. I am not wow'ed as I feel like lots of these recipes are available online by doing a basic search. The benefit to the book is that it is all in one place.

I had forgotten how much I like photos in books next to each recipe. Because this book doesn't have that, it is less appealing. This is my personal preference but I feel like I kind of went back 10 years in style.
4594318
Messy and very little direction on how to actually make stuff... eh not one I'd get again
790472
Not outstanding and while a sort of new interesting concept, it is more of the "rustic style" of cooking and not particularly useful for me.  A dedicated family baker would love it.
4613076
Definitely not for desserts. No amount of sweetener or vanilla could hide the flavor, which was more like plaster of paris than food.

I bought the 6-pack, and just threw 5 away. Ick. I guess I'll have to use a soy product afterall.
3516435
I normally love Annies everything but these are very mediocre. After they cook they get hard quickly (granted I use the microwave but moving fast is necessary with two kids). My kids don't like them and they taste kinda blah. Sorry Annies :(
4618845
The top is too intricate to really decorate with anything besides aerosol/spray icing. No matter how much Baker's Joy I use, I can never get whatever cake I make in it to come out in one piece.
3935395
Meeh. I was expecting a lot from this book because of David Lebovitz. However, I'm not very happy with it. I'm not a professional baker, I'm a home baker. I just enjoy baking, so I have a lot of cookbooks that I try new recipes every day. I tried 2 recipes from this book, one of them was pavlova and the other one was creme caramel. both of them didn't worked out. they were both delicious but their texture was not right. even though they tasted really good, my pavlova was so flat and my creme caramel was so liquid. After these tries, I stopped bothering with this book. Maybe it's something I did, I don't know but I never had this kind of situation before with my other cookbooks. And another thing about this book that didn't fit me was that there are really few photos. Since I'm not a pro, I'd like to see what the product should look like in the end. Some recipes have photos, some don't so it wasn't for me.
1968104
Not good for me just gives recipes doesn't tell me how to use on my regular recipes.
3558384
The vanilla is not so good. It is stevia sweetened and I can tell. I can handle the chocolate, but i'm not big on the vanilla. Like the other woman I don't finish them. I get part way through and give up. They might be better mixed with fruit in a blender. However,  I want a quit no time needed to prepare drink as I run out the door.
4297596
I chose to make the cookie bar recipe as shown on the package.  I planned to take the cookie bars to a pot luck because I was short on time and wasn't up to baking from scratch.  I was very disappointed in the results, though I had followed the recipe carefully and am an experienced baker.  The bars were hard to slice and I didn't like the texture.  My husband said they were "too sweet".  Decided to crumble the entire pan of cookie bars and use them in a trifle.  I layered the cookie bar crumbles with vanilla pudding and Cool Whip until the trifle bowl was full.  Put additional Cool Whip on top and called it a Caramel Apple Trifle.  Well, it certainly wasn't the best dessert I ever took to a pot luck, but it was adequate and people ate it.  I wouldn't buy the product again.
2325252
i pre-ordered this book because i LOVE creating cake pops, so i figured this might inspire some new designs. truth be told, the cover is GORGEOUS and that caught my eye first, then i thought, i wanna make mine look like that. well i can, its just fancy pressed sugars, duh. the ONE and only recipe given is good, i would have loved if there were more ideas for flavors: red velvet makes an amazing cake pop, as do pink champagne and plenty of others. overall, i didn't learn any new techniques or even feel inspired to make some.

the author has a shop, i am not sure if all they make and sell is cake pops, but it seems they have an idea for coming up with clever ways to shape cake and dip it in candy coating and embellish. i didn't realize there was truly a market for that, i suppose in london there is...enough notice to get someone a book deal.

my mama told me "if you don't have anything nice to say, then say nothing at all", i do not intend to sound snarky, but i simply was not in the slightest. its cute. its simple. its going to be donated in a gift basket for a bake sale, perhaps a novice would be more interested in the simplicity of this, but for this seasoned at home baker, i wish i would have passed.
3398035
Recipes are not so easy and taste bland. I'd rather figure out how to cook on my own or use free online recipes with healthy modifications.
4563472
With the cronut craze, I was eager to buy this book. It isn't really for the home baker. It's a beautiful book, but not really useful for me. I've been baking at home for years, but these recipes seem really challenging.
4565666
I'm going to have to start by saying that by schooling and career, I'm an interior designer. I love books about design and I do my best to keep current with trends and color palettes. I thought this book might be inspirational and even give me ideas for the occasional client who wants a DIY project. Even though I'm an interior designer, I don't really care to craft as it's just not my thing.

I came away from this book not feeling tremendously inspired. I thought a lot of the colors were beautiful, bright and fun but didn't really see any new ideas that I felt I could present to a client or use. Granted this is a book for beginners but I feel it would be more appropriate for adolescence. There are definitely a few fun crafty projects that I could see tweens and teens using to organize and liven up their space. For a color novice, this book could be used to see how to put fun colors together.
3190889
I like photos in my cook books so its not a favorite.
3132
It's a cool looking cookbook, but not really the way I eat (or want to eat) so probably won't be making much from it.