I have tried several recipes in this book. Unless you are an extremely experienced baker you will be disappointed in the results. Nearly all the recipes I have tried needed adjustment to avoid failure.I have years of experience as a baker and have really struggled with this book because the pictures are so beautiful, but it is incredibly obvious that Dannenberg did not test the recipes. This book, in my opinion,is just a "coffee table"cookbook. Nice to look at but definitely the recipes are not to be trusted. You will end up wasting time and money.