Great gift to get a mother who is into French baking! This book is easy to understand and it has beautiful pictures of different baking ideas. The book itself has some wonderful ideas, the different butter creams and ganache are yummy. It’s never too late to learn new tricks and with this book you’ll be surprise on how easy is to make a macarons. It provides great advice which allows you to avoid several pitfalls. Great for beginner macaronist!