Jessica Seinfeld and family will be celebrating Thanksgiving with an array of desserts this year — thanks to her husband, Jerry Seinfeld, helping her craft her new cookbook as the “best taste-tester.”
The “Not Too Sweet: 100 Dessert Recipes for Those Who Want More with Just a Little Less“ author exclusively told Page Six that she plans on whipping up several goodies from the tome on Thursday.
“A crustless apple crumble pie, a sweet potato coconut rum tart, a carrot cake,” Jessica, 53, shared.
Jessica, who tied the knot with Jerry in 1999, told us that her comedian husband was instrumental in which recipes made the cut.
“He’s the best taste-tester. Nothing would go in the book if he didn’t love it because he’s such a complainer that I would have that in my head,” explained Jessica, who shares three children, Sascha, 24, Julian, 21, and Shepherd, 19, with Jerry.
“I wouldn’t feel confident in something being in the book that he hates because it would just ring in my ears all the time. So I try to keep him a little less miserable.”
The cookbook, her sixth, uses “only natural sugars like coconut sugar, date sugar, date syrup, honey, maple syrup and a lot of fruit purées.”
Of why she was inspired to create the new book of recipes, Jessica told Page Six, “I’m 53 and I really feel the effects of sugar these days. It really gives me the effect of a hangover these days.”
“I’m not someone who wants to sacrifice the rewards in life like dessert,” she continued, “and I thought, ‘Why not write a book for people like me who want dessert but want to do it a little bit more responsibly?’”
Even though Jessica will be cooking up a storm on Thanksgiving Day, she told us nothing will go to waste as the Seinfeld family’s feasting spans three days.
“We have a tradition where we do Thanksgiving, and then the next day we do thanks again with our close family friends, George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth,” she revealed.
“We even do Saturday, which is ’No, thank you’ with some other friends.”
When Page Six noted that sounded like a Seinfeldian-inspired tradition, Jessica succinctly noted, “Yes, well, leave it to Jerry!”