A baking book - attainable, reliable, and inspirational recipes for the home baker for cakes, cookies, pastries, puddings, and other sensational sweets, from the acclaimed pastry chef at the iconic Ballymaloe House in Ireland

Ballymaloe House, in County Cork, Ireland, is heralded as the birthplace of modern Irish cuisine. There, visitors are treated to acclaimed pastry chef JR Ryall's daily array of seasonally inspired treats, wheeled through the dining room on a vintage dessert trolley. In Ballymaloe Desserts, Ryall presents 130 recipes for his award-winning confections, tested and perfected for the home baker.

Chapters and recipes include:

• Fruit : Compote of Green Gooseberry and Elderflower; Sugared Peaches
• Meringues : Almond Meringue Gâteau with Chocolate and Rum Cream
• Mousses, Set Creams, Jellies and Fruit Fools : Orange Mousse with Chocolate Wafers
• Puddings : Old-Fashioned Rice Pudding
• Some Biscuits and Petit Fours : Strawberries Almandine
• Frozen Desserts : Blackcurrant Ice Cream; Blood Orange and Passion Fruit Sorbet
• Pastries : Rhubarb and Custard Tart
• Cakes : Irish Apple Cake; Chocolate Mousse Gâteau