Chestnuts are candied and tucked into chocolate mousse and lavish cakes.
Her latest book, "Baking for Friends," offers more than 120 straightforward recipes for everything from breakfast treats to lavish cakes.
More than 2,500 guests ate lobster and caviar, sipping pink champagne and more than 1,000 bottles of fine wine before tucking into a lavish wedding cake flown in from France on a specially chartered plane.
Paintings of lavish layer cakes are set amid tea, coffee and Champagne services, accompanied by sparkly gems, of course.
Date cake lavished with maple syrup and brown sugar took the dessert prize.
There's a cabinet full of lavish, vaguely mournful cakes, fresh cheesecake, chocolate babka, sour cherry pie, walnut and apricot jam rugelach.
As a spectacle, though, it would have been hard to top the New York cheesecake, a giant portion of super-creamy light-textured cake, so lavish in itself it didn't need its canister-whipped-cream topping.
Bibi's Garden in Brooklyn feels like a family home - mostly because that's exactly what it is, with Harry and Bibi on hand to dish out tea and cake whenever required, lavish breakfasts and all the local advice you could want.
Shabana Azmi, the crusading activist, sound-bite savvy actress who seems to have an opinion on mostly everything that ails contemporary India should think better than serve up a Slumdog Cake at her lavish birthday bash for a few hundred of her Bollywood BFF's.
