Sheet Pan Sweets: Simple, Streamlined Dessert Recipes - A Baking Cookbook

by Molly Gilbert

Looking for quick, easy one-pan desserts? Look no further! Molly Gilbert shares 80+ recipes for delicious and innovative sheet pan desserts in this first-ever cookbook for desserts that require just one main piece of kitchen a baking sheet pan.    Molly Gilbert, author of the runaway hit Sheet Pan Suppers , has turned her eye to desserts. Her easy recipes are all made with super-accessible ingredients, and pretty much all you’ll need to bake them are a hot oven and your trusty sheet pan. This is the perfect cake cookbook, and you’ll also find comforting cookies and bars; impressive-looking pies, galettes, and tarts; and even some simple breads and breakfasts. Molly offers recipes that are both nostalgic, like her Kitchen Sink Cookies and her son Jack’s Chocolate Chip Cake with Fudge Frosting, and innovative, like her Dozen Donut Cake and Pumpkin Tiramisu Roll.   Whether you’re baking for a celebration or for something to snack on throughout the day, if you have a sheet pan, this baking book has just the thing. Molly’s dessert recipes are sure to please any sort of sweet tooth!   Paperback with rounded corners; 240 pages; 7 x 9 inches. 
 

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

Published October 4, 2022

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

These look pretty good, and they do seem pretty streamlined, but I did not realize the size of sheet pan she meant--hard to know when a couple of 50ish year olds would need the equivalent of two 9x13 pans full of something!

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

The concept of ranking a cookbook confuses me; obviously, there needs to be pictures, but other than that, if you don't try the recipes, how can you rate them?

However! I will always be indebted to and grateful for this particular one by Molly Gilbert because I finally baked and frosted a cake, from scratch, for the first time! Kind of wish Goodreads had an option to upload photos, so I can share pictures of the "sunny sprinkle layer cake" in all its lopsided glory (apparently our oven isn't level, whoops) but man, I'm still kind of super impressed with myself that I made my kid a cake for her birthday, and also very amazed at how dense and tall this cake turned out to be. As my daughter reported in between forkfuls of sprinkled goodness, two thumbs up!

Now I've been bitten by the sheet cake bug, although I will say, though, that going forward I'm going to make all my layer cakes rectangular-- there's a fantastic amount of leftover cake that gets wasted from cutting out circles, even with Gilbert's recommendation of using them as garnish on top. I'm eyeing the carrot zucchini one with cream cheese frosting next, plus my boys have already requested cakes for their upcoming birthdays-- one wants the exact same as his sister, and the other specified a chocolate chip one. Luckily, Molly has a recipe for that as well, and I'm already looking forward to making it this summer!

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

These are simple and streamlined. The first cake chapter was the best for me. The flavors are more complex than I expected. You do need a very specific pan for these (one with higher sides), but otherwise no special equipment or ingredients is necessary.

The cookie chapter felt like a cheat but the recipes are solid.

This is a great book if you like to bake family- friendly deserts on a regular basis.

[Ruth · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's really difficult for me not to buy all the dessert cookbooks (or, let's be real, all the cookbooks, period) that I check out from the library.

I wasn't crazy about the frozen section in the first chapters, but the candy in the last chapters got me!

Didn't buy this one, but will definitely be checking it out again nearer to the holiday season for gifts.

[Dray · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very nice collection of sheet pan recipes for desserts. I thought the inclusion of cookies was stretching it a little as cookie sheets are usually used but..admitedly the recipes do work and some of the cookies are creative and I'm glad to try the recipe.

[H · Rating 4 out of 5]

There was so much yummy in this book. Do I want to make it? Yes! Will I? Probably not.

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some interesting recipes.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent variety

[J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yummy dessert recipes - what's not to love? :)

[Mckinley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice idea. Batches too large for me to try.

[Rose Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

The pictures were pretty but the 2 recipes I baked were not a success. You might have better luck than I did.

[Bridgette Guerzon Mills · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great recipes especially if you're cooking for a crowd.

[Lori]

Page 145 white chocolate gingerbread cookies- add some extra anise and nutmeg

[Kathy M · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of standard recipes tweaked a bit but not amazing overall. Very good for beginners!

[Deanna Martinez-Bey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of great ideas!