An award-winning pastry chef’s foolproof recipes and fresh take on the history of American desserts, from chocolate chip cookies to toaster pastries.

If you have ever marvelled at a flawless slice of cherry pie in a television bake-off and wondered if you could re-create it at home, BraveTart is for you. Here are recipes for one-bowl Devil’s Food Layer Cake, Blueberry Muffins, Glossy Fudge Brownies and even Parks’s own recipes for re-creating popular supermarket treats! These meticulously tested, crystal-clear and innovative recipes bring a pastry chef’s expertise to your kitchen. Along the way, BraveTart tells the surprising story of how these desserts came to be. With a foreword by The Food Lab’s J. Kenji López-Alt, vintage illustrations of historical desserts and breathtaking photographs, BraveTart is sure to become a classic.