About the Book Offering a wide array of old favorites and rediscovered classic dessert recipes, The Wooden Spoon Dessert Book provides instructions for making pie doughs, cobblers, frostings, custards, icebox cakes, and more. Book Synopsis The Wooden Spoon Dessert Book is a bonanza for lovers of dessert-a wide range of favored perennials and rediscovered classics. Here is a wonderful, homey, and delicious array of recipes for the last, and best, course of any meal: custards, sugar pies, cobblers, layer cakes, frostings, pie doughs, and icebox cakes, all made simple as can be by Marilyn M. Moores straightforward directions and attention to detail. A masterful job at introducing the novice to techniques and what-ifs. - The Washington Post