Start with high-confidence desserts books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Sweet Farm!
Molly Yeh
Toll House Tried and True Recipes
Ruth Graves Wakefield
The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook
Lisa Steele
Betty Crocker the Big Book of Cakes
Betty Crocker
The Golden Girls Cookbook
Christopher Styler
The Golden Girls Cookbook: Cheesecakes and Cocktails!
Barefoot Contessa at Home
Ina Garten
Wild Sugar
Lindsey Johnson, Chase Reynolds Ewald
New England Desserts
Tammy Donroe Inman
The Perfect Scoop
David Lebovitz
Baking
Robert Gonzalez, Dan Crean
The Official Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook
Downton Abbey
Emily in Paris
Kim Laidlaw
Supernatural: the Official Cookbook
Julie Tremaine
A Whisper of Cardamom
Eleanor Ford
A Little Something Sweet
Kathleen Hansen
