Mini Treats & Hand-Held Sweets: 100 Delicious Desserts to Pick Up & Eat
Publisher: Taunton Press
Publication Date: September 2012
Featured Recipe: Almost-Instant Yellow Cupcakes with Strawberry Cream Frosting
Forgo the fork—and spoon! These delectable desserts are fun to make and easy to pick up and devour: the 100 recipes in Mini Treats & Hand-Held Sweets will have sweet lovers sneaking seconds . . . and thirds. In these pages, expert baker Abby Dodge whisks together step-by-step baking instructions, for a sweet-shop sampler of treats—from cookies, mini tarts, and hand pies to ice cream sandwiches and candy. No-fail recipes for sugary delights (along with delicious drizzles and favorite toppings ) abound in this collection of perfectly sized, perfectly portable desserts.
Cooks&Books&Recipes Editors, on Mini Treats & Hand-Held Sweets:
I have been a die-hard Abby Dodge fan since discovering her cookbook Desserts 4 Today: Flavorful Desserts with Just Four Ingredients two years ago. Easy-to-prepare desserts that look (and taste!) as sophisticated as something I’d usually (shhh, it’s a secret) pick up from a local gourmet shop? I’ll put it this way: my copy of Desserts 4 Today has seen lots, and lots, of use.
Now Abby has published Mini Treats & Hand-Held Sweets: 100 Delicious Desserts to Pick Up and Eat (Taunton Press), with perfect timing. I don’t know about all of you, but every party, event, or reception I attend these days has a “dessert bar” filled with little sweets. I’m not talking about sliced pies and cakes but, rather, individual-sized goodies. If you want to create your own dessert bar, for a party or just for yourself (I won’t tell), Mini Treats & Hand-Held Sweets is for you, with recipes for cookies and candies, of course, along with recipes for individual-sized mini pies, cake bites, frozen treats, and other bite-sized sweets.
Just a few of the temptations: Mini Spiced Sour Cream Coffee Cakes, Almost Instant Yellow Cupcakes with Strawberry Cream Frosting, Lemon Meringue Pie Poppers (gluten-free!), Jam-Filled Triangle Hand Pies, Frozen Chocolate-Papaya Wedges, Chunky Chewy Brownie Drops, Chocolate-Glazed Peanut Butter Fingers…. Abby also offers “kitchen wisdom” (e.g., how to pit cherries), “twists” (recipe variations), and “do ahead” tips.
You’ll soon want to join the Abby Dodge Fan Club. Just contact the unofficial president (me). I’ll head right over to share a mini-treat.
Notes: There are six ways to enter the giveaway, but it’s not necessary to do all six entries. Choose whichever one(s) you like, and you’ll be entered in the giveaway. Giveaway ends at midnight (EST) on Sunday, January 13, 2013.
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Sounds delicious!!
This is a great book to come up with finger food desserts for special days-what a great idea!
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I love Abby’s first cookbook too!! This is awesome!
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Hoping to win for my daughter, new things for her to make for the grandbabies
Thank you!!!!
It looks like a great book for me to own. I love making foods like this!
What a great cookbook!
I would love to win this book!
These sound so delightful…yum. Perfect for playdates and other quick bites.
Thank you for the giveaway.
I do love my treats. :)
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oh–hope to win this.:)
the chunky chewey brownie bites sound so delicious!
This book sounds delightful. Thank you for the chance to win!
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i just got a book similar to this, looks like some great recipes!
Thanks for the giveaway.
It would be so fun to whip up these treats with my kids! They’d love it!
These sound great for party food.
this looks like a great book. I will buy it if I don’t win it!
Looks like a book I would definitely love to have!
Thanks for the great giveaway
These little gems look perfect for me. Please enter my name in the draw. Thanks!
Wow, I love baking and would so enjoy this book!
Looks like such a cute book! I would love this for making spring and summer treats!
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Would love to give these recipes a try!!
my daughter would love this
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This looks so cute, would love to win. My daughter loves to help me make sweets
I love mini treats!!! Hope I win!
Thanks for the giveaways!
Id like to win this for gift giving and making things for the kids school/.
I’d love to try making the yellow cupcakes with strawberry frosting
I LOVE to bake! This would be a great treat for me:)
Thanks so much for the chance to win!
This would be wonderful for either children or adult parties.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for the giveaway! I love having tea parties with my closest girl friends! I would love to make some cute treats from this cookbook! :)
I WOULD LOVE TO WIN THIS!
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these are great for parties!
Perfect for my next bbq. Thanks for the giveaway.
This cookbook sounds great, I am always looking for new desserts to bring to parties.
Cant wait to try these recipes.
Very cool! Love to try these recipes!!!!!!!
would love to win this. i love to bake treats.
Sounds like some yummy recipes that are creative!
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Thank you for the great giveaway please count me in :)
Thank you!! I love all these books you’re giving away!
Yum! My niece would love this cookbook!
this would be great to have! I always want to make some hand held treats for my kids!
Looks like a cute book.
I like the finger foods!
I love baking!
Thanks for the opportunity to win this cookbook.
I love sweet treats, great cookbook :)
I love making all kinds of goodies for home, neighbors, parties and work. I love experimenting or getting receipes I’ve never tried. I love the challenge. I think this would be a great book for my kitchen.
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What a great cookbook! Thank you.
This is my favorite book that you have reviewed so far. This is definitely on my “to buy” list.
My husbands grandmother and I like to make little treats. We’d love to peruse this book.
thanks for the chance!
i need this in my life
How fun.
I would love to win this for my family
I would love to try out those recipes with my daughter.
I would love to learn how to make some new treats. Thank you
Ohhh. This one looks like it has some pretty delicious recipes!
mmmm whoopie pies!
i hope to win this for my mommy
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Great idea for a cookbook.
This would be great I am always making treats for the kids school and their different after school activities and this would come in handy
This would be a good book to reference when I want to make something sweet or for a nice treat for the family.
It sounds like a great cookbook. Thamks for the giveaway.
I love the recipes and how easy they would be to make!
I would love to win this!
What a great book