Advanced Professional Pastry Chef, Vol. 2

Elegant techniques for the accomplished baker

Master Chef Bo Friberg returns with sophisticated dessert recipes for the advanced professional chef and the serious home baker. A companion to the popular The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry, this new book delivers readers to the upper echelons of pastry creation, describing advanced techniques in sugarwork, chocolate artistry, and marzipan figures. Chef Bo also devotes chapters to the baking and business of wedding cakes, holiday favorites, modernist desserts, light desserts, and advanced decorating techniques. The accomplished baker will enjoy considerably expanding his or her repertoire with The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef.

"Bo Friberg's The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef is a superb resource for the pastry student, as well as the established chef. His years of experience as a chef and teacher shine through in these well-formulated recipes and insightful tips. This is an essential book for every student of pastry who aspires to a higher level."
—Jacquy Pfeiffer, Pastry Instructor and Owner of the French Pastry School

Up-to-date, advanced techniques for the professional pastry chef and serious home baker

The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef brings up-to-date coverage of the latest baking and pastry techniques to a new generation of pastry chefs and serious home bakers. This book covers advanced material and - like chef Bo's classic The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry, Fourth Edition - contains contemporary information to meet the needs of today's pastry kitchen. This volume contains nearly 500 recipes, which emphasize the techniques and presentations offered in top restaurants and bakeshops today.

Topics covered in depth include:

• Decorated cakes
• Modernist desserts
• Wedding cakes and holiday favorites
• Sugar work
• Marzipan figures
• Chocolate decorations

BO FRIBERG is a Certified Master Pastry Chef with over forty years of experience in the industry. He has received numerous awards and honors, including two gold medals on two occasions at the Culinary Arts Exhibit of the Pacific Coast. Currently, he is Executive Pastry Chef and an instructor at the San Diego Culinary Institute.