Mini Treats & Hand-Held Sweets: 100 Delicious Desserts to Pick Up and Eat

I was lucky enough to bid and win an autographed copy of Mini Treats & Hand-Held Sweets for a charity event. I loved it so much - I bought another copy to giveaway in a group I started called Cookbook Junkies. I have Abby's Williams Sonoma cookbook - Desserts which I love - and after reviewing Mini Treats - I ordered The Weekend Baker - which I am told is a must have. Back to Mini Treats - this is not one of those generic mini dessert cookbooks - this is a beautifully written and photographed baking bible with unique and exotic flavor combinations such as White Chocolate Filled Orange-Pistachio Macarons!I went through the book and started placing a sticky on each recipe I'd like to try - then I realized there was a sticky on almost every recipe. Cinnamon Toast Scones, Mini Mocha Roll Cakes, Chocolate-Glazed Peanut Butter Fingers, Dulche de Leche Cheesecakes are just a few of the recipes I will be making.I love mini or individual desserts but I always fear that I will misjudge the baking time if I convert a recipe - and I'm a pretty experienced baker - Abby has taken all the guess and worry away from us with this book. Perfect to use while baking treats for your holiday baking trays - and perfect to give to friends and family that love to bake!

I'm already a huge fan of Abby Dodge's baking books (The Weekend Baker is essential) and with this book, she's added another must have book to my cookbook library. Her easy, yet authoritative style will have you baking the best little snacks in no time. We loved the espresso chip fantails, so good for tea time. And the chewy brownie bites were rich and chocolatey and completely satisfying. But my all time favorite, and no doubt it is because of the charming headnote, is the big mountain slab pie. It's a giant fig newton, but about a million times better. This is a wonderful book - great gift for any baker, from experienced to novice.

It would have been perfect if all the recipes had pictures. The recipes are interesting and seems easy to follow but since there are no photos of the baked products i'm not that excited to try it.

I was hoping to give this to my grand daughter as a gift but it was not written in a child friendly manner.

Book just as stated. Well-wrapped. Nice.

Mini Treats and Hand Held Sweets is a great resource for individuals who want to prepare interesting pastries. It takes the worry out of creating.

Great way to create something new, simple and uncomplicated. Say to follow instructions.

Abby Dodge's cookbook Mini Treats and Hand-Held Sweets: 100 Delicious Desserts to Pick Up and Eat is a collection of small desserts that can be eaten without using silverware. Perfect party desserts with more sophisticated palettes in mind.An amazing collection of recipes with lots of flavors and textures, this book has desserts for every season. There is a lot of emphasis on fresh flavors with recipes that use fruits, berries and good dairy products for creamy flavor. Unlike a lot of collections, this one doesn't have photos of every single recipe because there are a lot of recipes! The photographs that are shown are gorgeously displayed, or they are photographs that help you learn how to do something specific for the recipe.Some of the recipes use prepared ingredients like ice cream or everybody's favorite, Nutella. There are tarts, cheesecakes, cookies, ice pops and it's probably easier just listing the chapter titles than to try and list all the types of desserts.Chapter 1 is Cookies- My chocolate loving daughter loves the Chunky, Chewy Brownie Drops. My personal favorite is the Lemon Meringue Pie Poppers which combine lemon curd, meringue cookies and a crunchy topping of ginger snaps. Combining 3 of my favorite things into one delicious, bright tasting sandwich cookie.Chapter 2 is Mini Pies and Slab Pies- My daughter decided this was her favorite chapter, and that we should make pie for Wednesday nights as a new tradition. She wants to bake her way through this entire chapter. The Nutella Chocolate Hand Tarts are like toaster pastries for adults. So very good. This chapter has a lot of fruit, and includes turnovers and instructions for an easy puff pastry dough.Chapter 3 is Whoopie Pies, Cake Bites and Mini Cakes- I haven't tried much from this chapter, but do recommend the Carrot Cake Cones with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting. Or even just the frosting, it's too good.Chapter 4 is Bite Sized Treats - tiny 1 and 2 bite desserts like cheesecakes, tarts, mini scones and sliced roll cakes for pretty little pinwheels. My favorite in this chapter are the strawberries filled with a cheesecake filling. Like a mini-cheesecake with a strawberry crust!Chapter 5 is Frozen Treats and includes frozen fruits, sorbets and pops, including a few just for the adults like the Tequila Sunrise colored Blood Orange and Creamy Tangerine pops which can also be made without tequila for younger people and people who don't drink. Easiest recipe that's a big hit with my family? Frozen Nutella Yogurt Bites which are dipped in chocolate.Chapter 6 is Candies- this is a chapter I haven't gotten into at all. The recipes look fantastic, and I plan to make the homemade White Chocolate Peppermint Bark using my favorite white chocolate for the holidays.There is a measurements equivalents table in the back for people using metric, the book is written using U.S. measurements. It also has a good index so you can find recipes based on ingredients fairly quickly.I do recommend reading through each recipe before gathering supplies. Some of the recipes call for ingredients or suggest variations which are not covered in the basic ingredient list.It's a great dessert cookbook.[I received a complimentary copy of the book to review on my craft blog- Don't Eat the Paste. I received no other compensation, and my review is my honest opinion of the product.]