Baking Chez Moi: Recipes From My Paris Home To Your Home Anywhere

"I rate cookbooks on their IQ — Irresistibility Quotient — and Dorie Greenspan’s latest scores on the Mensa level. Greenspan says the French leave more elaborate patisseries to professionals; she’s filled her new book with the less complicated confections they bake at home. Two simple loaf cakes, one with chopped apples and the other with marbled dark and white chocolate, were both keepers. And you’ve got to love a cookbook that urges you to “cajole the batter into the corner of the pan.” Next up: the French counterpart of the classic American chocolate-wafers-and-whipped-cream icebox cake — made with store-bought Petit Beurre cookies dunked in espresso and layered with an easy mocha buttercream. Ooh la la!"