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From the French-born pastry chef who took America by storm with his innovative Cronut, this is a feel-good baking book with recipes keyed to key stages in human relationships, from childhood to romance to holidays.

While you will find many French classics here–crème brûlée, tarte tatin, profiteroles, croquembouche–Ansel is often happily playful and inventive with treats such as

• Nutella milk bread

• Cinnamon rolls with maple mascarpone icing

• Hot chocolate with pink champagne marshmallows

• Lemon bundt cake with limoncello syrup

Some recipes are flagged as quick and easy, but there are plenty of weekend baking projects here if you’d like to lose yourself in a tiramisu for which you make your own ladyfingers, or a banoffee pie for which you prepare a caramelized white chocolate crème diplomat, caramelized bananas, and a sable breton base.

Hardcover. Color photographs throughout