Sinfully Yours

by Shipra Khanna

Writer Sarah Ockler once said, ‘I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn’t fix,’ and it’s something that Shipra Khanna truly believes. Except this would extend to chocolate, and cakes, and ice-cream, and cookies. Just anything sweet, and sinful.
Sinfully Yours is a collection of Shipra’s favourite desserts. It includes classics that her mother and grandmother taught her; sweets that she came up when experimenting in college; desserts that she thought of to keep both her kids happy; the mousse with which she got the first apron in MasterChef, and the mascarpone that she won the competition with. An exhaustive collection of the most delicious, delectable sweets dishes, this book is a must-have for any dessert lover — and which of us is not one!

144 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 17, 2016

Reviews

[J. Gowin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of those books that was undercut by an editor who didn't do their job. It is full of annoying errors and oversights that detract from an otherwise good book. For instance, the recipe for "Salted Caramel Chocolate Éclairs" which has no chocolate in it. A decent editor would have simply deleted the word "Chocolate" from the title. We are also given a note saying that fresh betel leaves can be picked up at your local market, which suggests that nobody thought about this book selling in rural areas outside of Asia. Wouldn't a decent editor check into sourcing exotic ingredients on the Internet before letting their author send people to the local supermarket for things that are going to confuse the stock boys in produce? These editorial errors continue throughout the book.

Despite the bad editing this contains several interesting recipes for Indian sweets which are worth reading.