Modern Art Desserts: Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Confections, and Frozen Treats Based on Iconic Works of Art [A Baking Book]

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Taking cues from works by Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, and Matisse, pastry chef Caitlin Freeman, of Miette bakery and Blue Bottle Coffee fame, creates a collection of uniquely delicious dessert recipes (with step-by-step assembly guides) that give readers all they need to make their own edible masterpieces. From a fudge pop based on an Ellsworth Kelly sculpture to a pristinely segmented cake fashioned after Mondrian's well-known composition, this collection of uniquely delicious recipes for cookies, parfait, gelees, ice pops, ice cream, cakes, and inventive drinks has everything you need to astound friends, family, and guests with your own edible masterpieces. Taking cues from modern art's most revered artists, these twenty-seven showstopping desserts exhibit the charm and sophistication of works by Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Henri Matisse, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Avedon, Wayne Thiebaud, and more. Featuring an image of the original artwork alongside a museum curator's perspective on the original piece and detailed, easy-to-follow directions (with step-by-step assembly guides adapted for home bakers), Modern Art Desserts will inspire a kitchen gallery of stunning treats.

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"Cookbook meets exhibit catalog in this art-themed collection."
Library Journal

"Let them eat cakeand art! Thanks toCaitlin Freeman, an author ne pastry chef with a unique and fresh talent, we can do just that.Freeman has written a visually rich book of charming dessert recipes from which you can re-create edible versions of your favorite works of modern art."
Trendland

This book gets my ganache flowingif only art history always tasted this good.
Todd Selby, photographer and author ofEdible Selby

Brilliant, quirky, and irresistible. Having tasted many of these dishes over the years, Im not sure whats more exciting, the recipes or the stories behind them. All dessert books should be this much fun!
Daniel Patterson, chef-owner of COI restaurant

Only Caitlin Freeman is brave enough (and crazy enough) to dream up desserts inspired by works of modern artand inventive enough to pull it off. Who looks at a Cindy Sherman self-portrait and sees an ice-cream float made with bubblegum soda, or at a Richard Avedon photograph of a beekeeper and pictures a glossy honey-pistachio parfait This is more than a cookbook, its a journal of the creative process.
Oliver Strand, food journalist and coffee columnist for theNew York Times

The desserts Caitlin Freeman has created for the SFMOMA Blue Bottle Caf are masterpieces in their own right. Its one thing to make the most perfect white cake, frosting, and ganache; its another to use those media to create art, as she has with her Mondrian Cake. That is Caitlins special gift, and one that she has generously shared in this beautiful book. It, too, is a masterpiece.
Charlotte Druckman, food journalist and author ofSkirt Steak:Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen

This book touches the bodys most sensitive organthe stomach. Most artists dream of creating works so provocative that they stimulate the brain while enervating all the other senses. Caitlin Freeman, probably the most innovative baker this side of Mars, does this spectacularly. Heres a cookbook that demands you genuflect before its sheer creativity. It says on your knees in a sugared tone.
Bompas & Parr, authors ofFeasts with Bompas & Parrand founders of the Bompas & Parr studio

Author Bio

A self-taught baker and longtime owner of the San Francisco cake and sweetsshop, Miette,CAITLIN FREEMANwas inspired to bake by the confectionary paintingsof California painter Wayne Thiebaud. After selling Miette in 2008, she started the pastry program at Blue Bottle Coffee Co. and coauthoredThe Blue Bottle Craft ofCoffee.Her artistic creations for the Blue Bottle Cafe at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have been featured in theNew York Times, Design Sponge, Elle Decor, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post,and more. She lives in San Francisco,California.