Party planner and dessert table extraordinaire, Amy Atlas is launching her new book, Sweet Designs today!
Sweet Designs is gorgeous, as you can tell by just looking at the cover, and it’s packed with sugar and crafts that will help you create beautiful dessert tables. The book is both a cookbook and a craft book, with 374 pages chalked full of more than 175 projects and full of information to get you started on your own table designs with lots of beautiful pictures throughout.
I love that Amy shows you how to Bake it, Craft and Style it!
Amy lays it all out for you, from the sweet basics, like how to melt chocolate, to a walk down the candy aisle, with candy couture and candy math, to how to find inspiration and use fabric to accessorize a cake pedestal and she ends it all with a “Find it” section, sourcing all the items she used in the book. How cool is THAT?!
Amy Atlas is the dessert guru. She’s taught me that the dessert table is the pinnacle of any event. She’s an inspiration to all bakers! – Tori Spelling
Whether you want inspiration and guidance designing a dessert table, or if you’re just looking for some great dessert recipes, Sweet Designs will show you how to create your own stylish desserts and sugar scapes for any occasion.
Myself and a few of my fellow bloggers are highlighting some of Amy’s recipes from her new book today!
It’s hard to know what to make because every single one of the recipes look so darn good. But, I choose the Honey Panna Cotta, a sweet, smooth, creamy little confection.
This cool and refreshing dessert, is basically cooked cream with a bit of yogurt and capped with a luminous band of honey-flavored gelatin. It looks like a fancy-schmancy dessert, but actually, it only takes a few minutes to prepare and the rest of the time, the fridge does all the work for you, making it a great “make ahead” dessert for a party table, and with it’s simple, not too sweet flavor, it would be the perfect ending to a heavy meal.
Sweet and smooth cream confections of cooked cream and yogurt capped with a band of honey-flavored gelatin. Recipe from Amy Atlas
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons milk
- 2 ¼ teaspoons (1 envelope) gelatin
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 2 cups good quality plain Greek yogurt
- 1 teaspoon gelatin
- 2 Tablespoons water
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 cup water
Instructions
- Put the milk into a small bowl and sprinkle with gelatin over it. Stir and set aside for 5 minutes.
- Combine the cream, vanilla bean seeds, honey and sugar in a medium pan and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat and let cool slightly. Add the gelatin-milk-mixture to the pan and stir until completely dissolved. Add the lemon juice and stir. Whisk in the Greek yogurt. Divide the mixture evenly among 8 4-ounce glasses, leaving about 1/2 inch of space between it and the rim. Chill at least 3 hours in the refrigerator.
- To make the gelee, combine 2 tablespoons of water and the gelatin in a small bowl and stir. Set aside for 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, combine 1 cup of water then the honey in a pan and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and let continue to cook for a few seconds. Add the gelatin mixture to it and stir until it is completely dissolved.
- Divide the gelatin mixture over the panna cotta evenly among the glasses. Chill until set, at least one hour. Garnish with spun sugar or single toasted almond slice inserted into the center of the gelee.
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Smooth, creamy and oh so decadent!
Be sure to visit my friends who are featuring Amy today too:
Sweet Sugar Belle – Amy Atlas Book Giveaway
Two Peas and Their Pod – Banana Cupcakes with Caramel Frosting
Sweetapolita – Pink Eclairs
i am baker – Chocolate Cupcakes
Sweetopia – Chocolate Beehive Cupcakes
My Baking Addiction – Banana Whoopie Pies
Bake at 350 – Hazelnut Truffles
Bakingdom – Mini Strawberry Triffles
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Those are GORGEOUS Cheryl!!! I must make the panna cotta now!!
i’ve sat here for a good 5-10 minutes trying to decide what my dream party would be. i’m so party challenged it’s sad.
i guess i’ll just go with what my next party will be- my son’s 3rd birthday. hopefully it will be HIS dream party! 
I would love a party where people dressed up in costumes and swing danced all night…but of course, the party would be nothing without delicious food and pretty decorations!
My dream party?? I am always throwing parties for others and have never thought about my dream party…maybe a fun birthday party for me with an awesome dessert table! You can never have too many desserts!
My dream party would be a dessert themed party!! Just a ton of different kinds of desserts, maybe even desserts that are popular in different parts of the world. I love anything sweets/cupcake themed!
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Right now my dream party is a housewarming party-maybe someday I will be moved in to our house enough to make it possible
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Oh man… I’m not sure what my dream party would be! Maybe something elegant and classy, but down-to-earth rustic at the same time? Something where everyone has to dress up.
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At the moment I’m planning my daughters first farm birthday, but would love ideas for an Olivia party!
My dream party would be a baby shower for my future sister-in-law who is trying to get pregnant. Can’t wait until that day comes and I am an Aunt for the first time!
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dream party would be someone else paying for it and having unlimited champagne, chocolate, and having it set Bora Bora..LOL
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My dream party would be a vintage garden themed one.
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I would LOVE to win this book. My dream party will be a baby shower I’m giving at the end of the summer. Thanks for the opportunity!
My dream party is my daughter’s first birthday party, which will be such a wonderful event (if I can streamline my ideas to narrow it down to one theme, that is).
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My favorite parties are making my girls happy. I usually don´t do anything for mine, but next year, I will do a tea party birthday for me, where we will dress with hats like for high tea.
My dream party is one where I don’t have to clean up the mess I made!
Hum… my perfect party … would probably a gourmet dinner party with sophisticated table settings and decor – AND of course all the children would be somewhere else!
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My dream party would be a super fun, boisterous, outdoor barbecue with tons of food, signature cocktails, and a beautiful dessert table full of unique and homemade treats.
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My dream party would have to involve glass slippers in some way. And of course CHOCOLATE!
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My dream party would be appetizers and desserts with a beautful night time white lights setting
Can’t wait to try this Honey Panna Cotta recipe! Now following you on pinterest.
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my almost-a-daughter-in-law and i were at amy’s site looking over all her deliciousness and saw her book and both of us lusted after it. so….the big party i would plan would be her wedding. such inspiration here. thanks for the chance.
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I’d say my dream party would be an amazing, fun, glamorous New Years Eve party. I haven’t done much of anything for New Years the last two years, and I’ve always wanted to go to a party like this but could never find one with the right decor and atmosphere. So what better way than creating it myself!
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I love Panna Cotta, but have never made it! Yours looks so good! Yum…
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My dream party would be a shabby, chic, backyard “30th” birthday bash for ME!
My dream party would be hosting a birthday party for my daughter. She is in grad school in the north so I do not get to see her as much as I would love to.
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My dream party would be a whimsical carnival theme. Bright and fun!
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