Don’t get me started. Don’t be in a hurry. It simply deflates, overcooks, undercooks, doesn’t combine properly, or the carrots in your carrot muffins turn green. If you’re in a hurry for your dessert to be done, the dessert doesn’t care. Saffitz is in no hurry with her baking, which over the years I have found is a good mindset for baking. She includes a lot of detail, specific descriptions of how things should look, and alternative methods if you don’t have the time or equipment to make it her way. The great thing about her recipes is that she embodies something Julia Child would have loved, which is scientific workability, or the ability to reproduce anything she makes in your kitchen at home.

Saffitz is methodical, analytical, and measures every ingredient to several decimal points (I’m mostly kidding). Dessert Person videos are somehow both calming, leisurely strolls through a recipe and, at the same time, bely an immense need to achieve perfection at all costs.

Her new cookbook of the same name arrived shortly after. After the fallout at Bon Appetite magazine and YouTube channel regarding allegations of inequitable practices and unfair treatment of racialized staff, Claire Saffitz made the move to her own YouTube channel, penned Dessert Person.

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