Dappled: Baking Recipes for Fruit Lovers: A Cookbook

A cookbook of fresh fruit-based desserts from Los Angeles pastry chef and restaurateur Nicole Rucker. Rucker has created widely praised baked goods and pastries through her work as Pastry Chef at Gjelina Take Away and Gjusta, her pie company Rucker's Pie, and her restaurant Fiona. In her debut cookbook, Rucker shares recipes and her approach to fruit desserts, treating fruit as equally decadent as chocolate cake. She emphasizes baking with seasonal ingredients, from summer peaches to winter citrus. The book includes recipes such as Peach and Ricotta Biscuit Cobbler and Huckleberry Blondies, presented alongside Rucker's personal stories about her lifelong interest in fruit. The recipes are designed for those who love fruit and shop at farmers' markets.