Patisserie at Home: Step-by-step recipes to help you master the art of French pastry Hardcover – April 11, 2013

My new hobby is going to be perfecting French patisserie. Wonderful recipes in this book, lots of good explanation and the pictures are fantastic. Nice variety of recipes. And it doesn't weigh a ton! I had to return a beautiful book because it actually weighed almost 10 pounds and I could barely lift it to read it.

I have alot of patisserie and baking books in general and most I love. This book has it all. Its pretty special for me being a entry level professional patisserie maker. If you are a home baker this may be a step up for some since its has the typical process of pastry, patisserie. But its still a must have book casue theres a picture for every recipe. Theres simple cookie, cake, loafs and other more advanced and idea giving for your typical patisserie lover or home baker.I love this book and this is truly a wonderful book for beginner, advanced home bakers or professionals wanting a little sproos up on ideas.I highly recommend this book . If nothing else it makes a wonderful table top book- the pictures are wonderful for food stylist ideas as well.Highly recommend.Oh its has grams or cups and even ounces/ pounds weight. so it is for everyone. This is by far one of the best. Its up there with the Herrie Herme but more for the home baker with ingredients and easy ways of doing not so advanced things, but also has more advanced like operas and gateaux.

I am so happy with this cookbook. Can't wait for the grandchildrento come and we can start cooking. If you have children, to interest them in cooking,get tehm in the kitchen and help "them" make something special.Our selection is "Madelines", a very light (small) cookie. We did ordera Madeline pan from Amazon so we can cook like aLa Patisserie. The children can't wait!! Anticipation whets the appetite. :0)

I enjoy home baking and have a reasonable amount of experience but wanted to extend the range of French pastries that I bake. This book has met that purpose. The illustrations are inspiring and many techniques are shown step by step. Recipes are explained clearly and all the recipes I have tried have been very sucessful (and delicious!) Thank you Will Torrent, I am producing beautiful patisserie from home!

I am very happy to see high quality high class patisserie recipes available to bake from home. However, one still needs to be a fairly skilled baker to make these recipes worked for you. Overall, I bought this book because I really dream I can very soon turn out a few of these great bakes. A good book to give as present.

I love to cook and have always be a bit afraid of french cooking, but this book make it very easy and the recipes are made with simple ingredients I can find in my local grocery store, nice pictures and takes you step by step, and also explains the meanings of the french names so you really learn a lot.

I really like the layout, plus his methods to each recipe are brief but enough to give a beginner (like me) a good feel for the recipe. I especially like his recipe for creme patisserie- the pudding is a great trick!

This book was part of my Christmas gift. There are many inspiring recipes and photos, I can't wait to get started. The techniques used for pastry, doughs, etc. seem to be fully described and illustrated so I expect good results.