Review: No bake- perfect for summer desserts
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2012
I'm just beside myself, this is my second cookbook today that isn't cut and paste! The pictures look real, not professional, not from other websites, with a consistent look and feel, same with the recipes.Here in New Orleans the sun is blazing down, the humidity is so thick it feels we are swimming through the air,  no bake cold desserts are the perfect antidote for not wanting to turn on the oven.The author is English, though she has put in American measurements. Some ingredients might require google-fu, for example, chocolate digestive biscuits are chocolate dipped cookies, and are conveniently available for purchase here on Amazon.The tia maria torte looks wonderful, and for an even lighter tasting dessert (though no diet as it has heavy cream and condensed milk, is the tropical cocktail icebox dessert. In the ingredient list she just says condensed milk, in the directions she calls it sweetened condensed milk, so do not use evaporated.In fact, though there is an overall attempt to make this more American friendly and usable, I did take off one star just because there are questions with ingredients (like digestive biscuits, or liquid chocolate, which I'm not have luck googling, chocolate syrup perhaps?) that make this a little harder to use, but I think the recipes are worth the bit of extra effort.