Explains how to combine ready-made products with fresh ingredients to create homemade desserts with more than one hundred recipes, including butter rosettes cookies, Banana pudding bites, and pink meringue kisses.

Includes index.

Letter from Mary Hart -- Letter from Sandra -- Shaving Chocolate -- Trimming cake layers -- Making layered cakes -- Cutting perfect slices of cake -- From the Package -- Chocolatier -- American Classics -- Celebrity Sweets -- Light & Healthy Treats -- Bake Sale -- Cookies -- Special Occasions -- Holidays -- Gift Goodies -- Party Planning.