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Instantly Sweet

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With the popularity of the Instant Pot and the reemergence of the pressure cooker, users are looking to maximize their appliance and finding more diverse ways to get their money's worth. Cookbooks are showing up right and left with all sorts of difference cooking and not just the traditional meals for dinner. Instantly Sweet is one of the those books with 75 recipes for desserts and other sweet treats.

I had no clue the extent of what could be cooked in my Instant Pot until I started checking out cookbooks. Instantly Sweet contains recipes for breakfasts, breads, cheesecakes, lava cakes, pies, cobblers, custards, puddings, sauces, fillings, and toppings. These recipes are great for moist, warm, quick-cooked dishes. There is an extensive section of tips, tricks, and troubleshooting to help even the novice user feel comfortable.

This is a great book for both Instant Pot newbies and experts. With 75 recipes, this book will be one that will be a favorite for years to come. Highly recommended for the Instant Pot user.

I received a copy of this book for free in exchange for an honest review.

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This is a great cookbook with 75 delicious and decadent traditional dessert recipes that can be prepared with the ease and convenience of an electric pressure cooker. Fans of an instant pot will want to pick up this book and indulge their sweet tooth!

Thank you, Harvard Common Press and NetGalley!

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Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the free copy to review

This book is bright and inviting, 75 recipes with clear and easy to follow instructions to make delicious sweet treats. This is for your instant pot or electric pressure Coker and I have never made any desserts this way and it's now something I definitely rely want to try.

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This is a fabulous cookbook for any instant potter. There are a wide range of recipes included in this collectionand is full of pictures (my favourite for any cookbook!) I have tried many recipes with complete success. The breakfast cakes were my favourite. The recipes are easy to follow. Highly recommended!

*I received an advanced reader's copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!

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Cobblers, Cakes, and Pies Oh, My! This cookbook is a sweet lovers dream. There are recipes for any and every taste you can imagine. Like who thinks of a Banana Split Pie? Never heard of one but I sure as heck want to try it. There are sweet breads, lava cakes, and she even threw in recipes for toppings. How can you go wrong with that? Personally I think one can never go wrong with sweets, what's that famous saying?, "Eat Cake for Breakfast" well with this one you'll want to. The recipes are simple and easy to follow and/or tweak the recipe to your desired preference.

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Who knew you could could such YUMMY treats with your insta pot! THIS is the dessert cookbook you've been looking for, to take your instapot to a new level, especially if you use your instapot while rving/camping! While I'm not too sure on the pies (I love baked crusts), all the other recipes had me wanting to go bake immediately upon reading them! Even the family said ooo and aaah on evey other page! Yup, we'll be cooking our way through this cookbook! Luckily I already had a small springform pan that fit inside the cooker, so we could try out some of the recipes! The cheesecakes are to DIE for! the pressure cooker makes them SO much more easily, and no worries about anyone opening the oven on you! You may find yourself ONLY cooking them this way from now on! We;kk be startung on the breads next week (like the one below) and everybody can;t wait! If you have an instapot, you NEED this book, and if you're giving one for Christmas (yikes ONLY 73 days to go people!)!

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This books Instantly Sweet focuses on sweet recipes, going from breakfast to cakes, cheesecakes,... I loved how simple the recipes look and there are lots of recipes.

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I'm a crockpot cooker in an instant pot world! Santa brought me an instant pot last year and I've cooked the classics, stew, noodles, roasts, etc in it but never tried anything sweet. The idea of baking a cake in so little time did not seem doable. Once I tried a couple of recipes from this book, I was hooked! I've now made at least 40 of the 75 recipes and do not intend to stop until I have tried them all. The recipes are clear and easy to follow. Most have ingredients already in your pantry. I know a lot of people who buy all of their sweets at the grocery store or bakery. They say they don't have time. That's where the instant pot comes into play. Written by two instant pot experts, these recipes are pretty much foolproof. You will not be disappointed with your results if you try this book. Promise!!!!

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Very useful resource for our patrons. The recipes are perfect for the instant pot, easy, mostly traditional dessert recipes updated for use with the ever popular and trending instant pot. What is not to love. The recipes were well explained and the photographs were great.

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excellent collection of dessert recipes to pressure cook. A variety of puddings, cakes, pies and breakfast items - different from many recipe books for pressure cookers. A great addition if you own such a device.

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This is a different sort of desert book. It is a wide array of recipes concocted through using the various settings of a pressure cooker. Some of the recipes claim to be even better cooked using a pressure cooker than the traditional methods as they are more moist and delicious.

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<b>What a mouthwatering cookbook that makes you want to make ALL the desserts!</b>

I am buying this cookbook for all my hostess friends who love sweets! I really liked all the pictures and desserts and how they are grouped per chapters. The cookbook also has a page in the beginning to help with baking failures and how to make the dessert properly per the authors' instructions. I liked this part of the cookbook because I usually tend to have a trial and error period when my recipes do not come out as intended!

I can't wait to make so many of these scrumptious desserts for breakfast too, DESSERT FIRST!

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This book inspires me to use my Instant Pot for sweet recipes instead of just savory things! Filled with lots of great background info and a troubleshooting section before the recipes. A wide variety of dessert types and flavors, including a pie section (which I was totally unaware you could make pie in an IP). The last section is Sauces/Fillings/Toppings. Lots of beautiful, mouthwatering pictures. Only complaint is that I wish there were a photo for every recipe.

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The potential of the Instant Pot just has no limits and this cookbook explores the sweeter side of the pressure cooking wonder appliance. Endless options and alternatives to the oven approach.

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Having recently bought an electric pressure cooker, I was delighted to review this book.

There are some nice photos. However, I was really disappointed to see that some of the recipes are total cheats - use 16 unbaked frozen dinner rolls to make monkey bread? Err, no. Use boxed yellow cake mix or a packet of brownie mix? No, and no.

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Instantly Sweet is surely the loveliest Instant Pot dessert book I’ve encountered. As I would expect, it’s loaded with delicious puddings and cheesecake recipes, I was also impressed with the cakes and topping/filling recipes! I can’t wait to make the standard cherry cheesecake and the chocolate dulce de lèche, but will likely start with the festive and birthday friendly confetti sprinkle cheesecake. Excellent resource for speedy desserts!

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Instantly Sweet is a wonderful recipe book. Featuring some beautiful recipes with some lovely photos.

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This collection of dessert recipes is the tipping point...we must now but our own Instant Pot (I tend to read cookbooks for ideas, even if it's not something I'll immediately make. With the Instant Pot, I've been reading cookbooks to see if it's be a purchase we'd really use...this book was my selling point). Divided into sections such as cheesecakes and lava cakes, this cookbooks is full of delicious desserts made in significantly less time than normal. (Cheesecakes that take less than four hours? Sign me up!)

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Man, now I want an Instant Pot more than ever, they look like such useful tools and now I have a bunch of sweets recipes I could make. The recipes are clear and look delicious, however I do wish there were more pictures of the finished dishes. There are pictures, just not of each recipe. I was particularly intrigued by the various cheesecake and pie recipes, but the Vanilla Almond Custard with Raspberries looked the most delicious. Definitely give this book a try if you like desserts and have an Instant Pot!

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Before reading this book, I would never have thought about making cakes or desserts in an Instant Pressure Cooker. There are so many easy to follow recipes in this book, like cheesecake, chocolate cake, lava cakes. If you own an Instant Pressure Cooker, you need to try some of these recipes. There is something for every sweet tooth in here.

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