Petite Eats will inspire any host or hostess to throw a tasting party. Just as wine and beer tasting grow in popularity in homes and apartments across the country, tasting parties are gaining status as the new craze. Why not? With bite-sized treats, guests get to sample more food, and hosts get to showcase their culinary prowess with a wider range of hors d'oeuvres, desserts, and even miniature drinks. From classy avocado shrimp cups to sizzling bacon-wrapped jalapeños, chicken wings with spicy maple sauce to coconut petite fours, home cook Timothy W. Lawrence shows how anyone can whip up an amazing spread of small treats for any gathering. Here’s a sampling of the more than 50 recipes included: Lobster and Fruit Cocktails Satay Chicken Skewers Bacon-Wrapped Dates with Maple Sauce Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil Baked Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Quesadillas Pulled Pork Sliders Fried Stuffed Jalapeños S’mores Bites Mini Parfaits Frozen Lime Cups Berry Turnovers Mini Chipwiches Pineapple Rum Cocktails Strawberry Banana Pineapple Smoothies Whether it's game night, a bridal shower, or a spur-of-the-moment get-together, Petite Eats makes entertaining fun and easy. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

An illustrated cookbook for girls which shows how to easily create miniature treats.

Whip up delightfully miniature versions of all your favorite foods with this fun and creative cookbook full of easy recipes for bite-sized appetizers Hors d'oeuvres have a reputation for requiring frou-frou ingredients that are difficult to identify—let alone locate in a grocery store. (When's the last time you ate an amuse-bouche at home?) It's about time for an appetizer cookbook that has fun with the concept of tasting an entire meal in one bite. With Tiny Food Party!, Teri Lyn Fisher and Jenny Park share super quick and easy recipes for little bite-size munchies—delightfully miniature versions of all your favorite foods! Thinly slice shallots, batter and fry 'em, add with a creamy buttermilk ranch sauce, and you've got dainty Bite-Size Onion Rings. Use mini cupcake tins to bake up sweet Little Cheesecakes! Or fill small rectangles of pie dough with Nutella and marshmallow, bake until crispy, decorate with icing—and sprinkles, of course—and you've got irresistibly charming Mini Homemade Pop Tarts. Tiny Food Party! includes Adorable Appetizers, Itty Bitty Entrees, Pint-Size Desserts, and Teeny-Tiny Cocktails that you can serve in shot glasses or tea cups. With full-color photographs of every single recipe plus tips and tricks for seriously downsizing your favorite recipes scattered throughout, this lighthearted little cookbook is lots of fun!

The ultimate collection of mini desserts from a master baker Now you can enjoy all of the flavor of full-size portions without any of the guilt. Bite-size desserts make everybody happy. Renowned pastry chef Carole Bloom shows you how to create unforgettable mini desserts—the ideal sweet treats for people who always ask for "just a teeny tiny slice" as well as partygoers who want to splurge on two or even three different bite-size delights. Treat yourself to a wide assortment of small sweets—including cakes, cupcakes, scones, shortcakes, muffins, pastries, tartlets, turnovers, galettes, cobblers, crips, custards, mousses, puddings, cookies, ice creams, and sorbets. You'll get detailed, easy-to-follow recipe instructions as well as tips on serving mini desserts for parties. Bite-Size Desserts is packed with tiny treasures guaranteed to delight your family and friends.

Learn How to Make Extraordinary French Desserts from a Master of Pâtisserie Cheryl Wakerhauser—owner of the award-winning Pix Pâtisserie—introduces you to an exciting array of flavors, shapes, textures and colors by focusing on petits fours, bon bons, macarons and more. With step-by-step instructions and tips and tricks to demystify the art of French desserts, making pâtisserie is more approachable than ever. French pâtisserie is a study in components, and Cheryl breaks down each recipe, providing information on classic techniques while imbuing each recipe with a new twist. Her petits fours combine flavors like peppermint chocolate cream and gingerbread cake, or tarragon meringue and mini lemon cream puffs, to create the perfect harmony of taste and texture. In addition to petits fours, she also shares a sweet and savory menu for high tea, bon bons that go above and beyond the classic truffle and her own take on macarons, miniaturized to be the size of pop-in-your-mouth candies. Cheryl’s ingenuity, incredible flavors and knowledge of techniques are what make this a must-have resource for both aspiring pastry chefs and home bakers.

James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame author Beatrice Ojakangas brings all her talents to bear in hew newest book, Petite Sweets. A shot glass of velvety chocolate mousse, a tiny key lime pie, two-bite whoopie pies, and ginger carrot cakelets are just some examples of the 55 miniature desserts Beatrice shows the home cook how to create. An introductory chapter covers the basics of downsizing dessert recipes, as well as information on where to find the baking and serving dishes used in the recipes.