Semi-Homemade: Desserts

by Sandra Lee, Mary Hart (Introduction)

Explains how to combine ready-made products with fresh ingredients to create homemade desserts, sharing more than one hundred recipes for a host of confections including chocolate thumbprint cookies, Boston creme pie, and strawberry tuxedo cake.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

About the author

Sandra Lee Christiansen, known professionally as Sandra Lee, is an American television chef and author. She is known for her "Semi-Homemade" cooking concept, which Lee describes as using 70 percent packaged and 30 percent fresh products. She received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Show Host in 2012 for her work and her show. As the partner of former New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, she served as the de facto First Lady Of New York from 2011 to 2019, when the couple ended their relationship.

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Reviews

[Cathy · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book makes me nostalgic for my mom's cooking--and that's not a compliment (much of her food we kids dumped in the toilet). I'm not sure this book contains her infamous Kanzaa Cake. Julia Child would turn in her grave.

[Tai · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very visually appealing, tasty, easy receipies.

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

try the caramel pecan cheesecake, I used the already done philly filling that comes in a tub. WOW

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like her approach a lot BUT it ain't cheap. But her cookbooks are fun to look at.

[Jenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this cookbook, she's my hero!

[Gayle Kee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it!