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Make It Sweet
A look at four local dessert cookbooks
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March 22, 2007
101 Great Desserts
By Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi
This is a high-quality, spiral-bound cookbook filled with glossy
color photos and enticing desserts from the finest restaurants in
Hawai`i—and all your high-end faves from Maui. Now you, too, can
impress the fam with your rendition of the Chocolate Pate from I`o, the
Green Tea Brulee from the Banyan Tree, Passion Fruit Souffle from Spago
Wailea, Baked Hawai`i from Hula Grill and Sweet Avocado Mousse from
Ma`alaea Grill. Plus, there's a cool section on local gourmet product
businesses and a listing of the best bakeries in Hawai`i. (Island
Heritage Publishing, 2005, 182 pages)
Heavenly Island Desserts
By Susan F. Shizuru
If you just want a no-nonsense collection of family recipes, this is
the book for you. Shizuru covers the gamut of desserts—cookies, bar
cookies, cakes, pies, breads, breakfast desserts, etc.—and makes it
simple for the busy working folk in Hawai`i to bake a quick haupia
cake, macadamia nut tassies or creamy mango gelatin to take to the
weekend potluck, or somebody's godforsaken birthday at the office.
(Booklines Hawaii Ltd., 2004, 60 pages)
Hawai`i's Best Local Desserts
By Jean Watanabe Hee
Hee is a retired elementary school teacher from Kailua with a
graceful grandmotherly charm and a serious sweet tooth. Her craving
spans far and wide, from Okinawan sweet potato pie, andagi and King's
Hawaiian Sweet Bread bread pudding, to Guava Mousse, tri-colored mochi
and malasadas. She uses very simplified recipes with few photos, and
utilizes intriguing ingredients like vinegar and coffee in a chocolate
cake, or a cup of 7-Up for the Pistachio Bundt Cake. (Mutual Publishing
Co., 2001, 118 pages)
Cookies from Hawai`i's Kitchen
By Muriel Miura
Who doesn't love cookies? And they're just so easy to make! Well,
that is, unless you're like me, who's a bit of an amateur with a baking
sheet. Thankfully, Muriel Miura takes the mystery right out of the
elusive cookie by giving in-depth "cookie basics" in things like cookie
history, equipment, ingredients, measuring, decorating, storing,
freezing and packing for mailing. She then shows you how to make
everything cookie, from your very own Tropical Thumbprint to the
dignified Russian Tea cookie. There's also an assortment of no-bake
cookies for you oven-phobes, which include Cherry Date Coconut drops,
Hawaiian Energy Bars and Rum Balls. Yum. (Mutual Publishing Co., 2006,
152 pages)
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