Tropical Desserts: Recipes for Exotic Fruits, Nuts, and Spices - Tapa dura

Andrew MacLauchlan, one of the country's most eminent dessert and pastry chef, enables you to create your own delicious and beautiful desserts with the luscious and exotic fruits of the tropics such as guava, papaya, mango, carambola (star fruit), and much more. The book also includes delicious recipes using more common (but still tropical) ingredients such as bananas, lemons, limes, vanilla, pineapple, and coconut, which are available just about everywhere. Tropical Desserts dispels the myth that delicious desserts are difficult to prepare - with recipes for quick breads, muffins, brownies, and cookies, anyone who desires a tropical dessert can create one. With over 30 gorgeous color photographs of Andrew MacLauchlan's fantastic creations, Tropical Desserts is as much fun to read as it is to use.

Donna K. Flynn has taught at both Northwestern University in Illinois and the College of William and Mary in Virginia.