Mabel June's Dessert Bible
Every dessert you ever loved. Every secret that makes it work.
Fifty six recipes, written the way a pastry chef thinks and a grandma talks.
Honey, anybody can hand you a recipe. The Dessert Bible hands you the reasons. Cakes, pies, cobblers, cookies, puddings, and candies, with the why behind every step written right in, so it comes out right the first time.
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Bible
Puddings · Candies
Strong Sweets
Six chapters. Fifty six recipes. Zero guessing.
Each chapter covers one family of desserts, start to finish, with the methods that make a home kitchen bake like a bakery.
Pies and Cobblers
Deep dish apple, pecan, chess, peach cobbler, and the flaky crust that behaves every single time.
Cakes of Every Kind
Yellow layer with fudge frosting, three day coconut, red velvet with the original cooked frosting, cold oven pound cake.
Cookies and Bars
Chocolate chip, snickerdoodles, lemon bars, brownies. Chewy in the middle, crisp at the edge, on purpose.
Puddings and Icebox Desserts
Banana puddin' and its make-ahead cousins, the kind that taste even better the next day.
Candies and Fudge
Fudge, pralines, and brittle, with the exact cues that make the sugar behave instead of turning grainy.
Strong Sweets High protein
Real desserts built on Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, and eggs. They pull their weight on protein and still taste like dessert, because Mabel refuses to serve anybody a sad one. If you or your doctor has opinions about what is on your plate, this chapter was written for you.
Five secrets you will learn, free of charge
These are real ones, straight from the book. Use them tonight if you like. There are fifty one more where they came from.
Freeze the butter, then grate it.
For pie crust, run frozen butter over a box grater like cheese. The frozen shreds stay whole in the dough, and every shred turns into a flaky layer in the oven. Warm butter blends in and disappears.
Warm your eggs before you bake.
Cold eggs make a lumpy, heavy batter. Set them in a bowl of warm tap water for ten minutes. Room temperature eggs whip up light, and the cake rises level instead of humping in the middle.
Once the sugar boils, put the spoon down.
Stirring boiling sugar teaches it to grain. Fudge and pralines come out smooth as glass when you stir before the boil and leave it be after. The book gives you the exact cues to watch for instead.
Take the cookies out too soon.
Pull them when the middle still looks a touch underdone. The hot pan finishes the job while they cool, and that is the whole trick to a chewy middle with crisp edges.
Blend cottage cheese until it disappears.
Run it in the blender until completely smooth and it turns into a filling so creamy you would swear it was cheesecake. No curd, just silk, carrying protein that plain cream never could. The Strong Sweets chapter is full of tricks like this one.
"The recipe tells you what to do. The secret tells you why. That is the difference between hoping and knowing."
Pull up a chair, sugar.
"A dessert is just chemistry wearing a Sunday dress."
I learned to bake in my mama's kitchen, back in days when you could not afford to ruin a cake. When eggs are precious, you learn exactly why the recipe says what it says. You learn what cold butter does that soft butter cannot. You learn why the sugar grains if you fuss at it. You learn it deep, because there is no second try.
I have carried those whys in my head and my recipe box for a whole lifetime. The Dessert Bible is me finally writing every one of them down. Fifty six desserts, and not one of them asks you to cross your fingers.
I put a chapter in there I am especially proud of. I call it Strong Sweets, desserts that carry real protein for folks minding their health. Because watching after yourself should never mean going without dessert. Not at my table.
So splatter these pages. Dog-ear your favorites. And when somebody asks how you got your crust so flaky, you just smile.
Bible
Puddings · Candies
Strong Sweets
Mabel June's Dessert Bible
The complete all-desserts digital cookbook. Instant download.
- 56 dessert recipes across 6 chapters, cakes to candies
- A secret on every recipe, the why written into the steps
- The Strong Sweets chapter, high-protein desserts that still taste like dessert
- PDF you keep forever. Phone, tablet, computer, or printed at home
Secure checkout. Your download link arrives right after.
A few questions, honey
Is this a printed book that comes in the mail?
No, it is a digital cookbook, a PDF you download the minute you buy. Read it on your phone, tablet, or computer, or print the pages you love at home. No waiting on the mail.
How do I get it after I buy?
Right after checkout you get your download link on the screen, and it lands in your email too. It is yours to keep forever.
Can I print the recipes?
Yes, sugar. Print one page or print the whole thing. The pages are made to be splattered on.
What is the Strong Sweets chapter?
Nine high-protein desserts built on things like Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, and eggs. Real desserts that hold their own on protein, for anybody minding their health who still deserves something sweet.
Is this a subscription?
No. One purchase, one book, yours forever. There is nothing to cancel because there is nothing recurring.
Is the launch price real?
Yes. The Dessert Bible is $19 for launch week and the plan is $29 after that. No games, that is simply the launch window.
Is this the same as your first cookbook?
No, the Depression-Era Kitchen is suppers, breads, and pantry home cooking. The Dessert Bible is all desserts, every page. If you want both, the box above the order button adds the first book for $9 more.
What if I do not like it?
Then you do not pay for it. You have 30 days. Reply to your receipt and I will give your money back, no fuss and no hard feelings.
Bible
Puddings · Candies
Strong Sweets
Bake like you know the secret. Because now you do.
Fifty six desserts, every why written in, the Strong Sweets chapter included. Launch price $19, planned at $29 after launch week.
Get the Dessert Bible for $19Hold on a minute, sugar.
Before you slip out, let me do what grandmas do. Take this little code and keep $5 in your pocketbook. It brings the Dessert Bible to $14 today.