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Books : Cooking, Food & Wine : Meals : Sweets : Confectionery
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Chocolate and candy making today is undergoing a renaissance in public awareness and status. This comprehensive book combines artisan confectionery techniques with accessible explanations of the theory and science as well as formulas for use in production. Fundamental information for the confectioner includes ingredient function and use, chocolate processing, and artisan production techniques. The book contains 140 formulas and variations for beautiful confections, including dairy-based centers, crystalline and noncrystalline sugar confectionery, jellies, and nut center and aerated confections.
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If you have a creative spirit and want to try your hand at cake and cupcake decorating, Cake Art is for you. Chefs from the CIA's prestigious Baking and Pastry faculty describe the various techniques and provide easy-to-follow instructions so the home baker can create beautiful cakes and cupcakes. Cake decorating is an activity that can be enjoyed by everyone and children can help with 8 of the 27 projects included in Cake Art.
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The ability to create delicate, realistic sugarcraft flowers is one of the things that set top cake decorators apart from lesser bakers. Their secrets are revealed here through hundreds of color photographs that show each step in the creative process. Targeted at intermediate to advanced cake decorators, the instruction begins with selecting and using both basic and specialized equipment, and making suitable fondants or other sugary icings from which an assortment of flowers can be fashioned. Individual flowers, larger sprays, and complete arrangements are all covered, encompassing a total of 32 unique types of blossoms. Fifteen featured designs range from a simple but elegant heart-shaped anniversary cake to a breathtaking two-tiered wedding cake with floral sprays that would make any bride proud.
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How sweet it is! More than 100 recipes plus terrific tips and tricks
Explore the art of cooking candy and create sweet masterpieces!
If you want to concoct irresistible treats for your friends and family, this book gets you cooking! You'll discover proper techniques and use them to create incredible candies. Recipes range from fondues to fondants, simple meltaways to decadent truffles, fun kids' treats to cream-filled delicacies. Indulge!
Discover how to
* Choose the proper utensils and ingredients
* Melt, temper, and mold chocolate
* Fine-tune your skills with professional secrets
* Create special holiday treats
* Bag, box, or wrap candies for gifts
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With more than 4,800 terms and definitions from around the world plus ten appendices filled with helpful resources, The Pastry Chef's Companion combines the best features of a dictionary and an encyclopedia. In addition to the current terminology of every component of pastry, baking, and confectionary arts, this book provides important information about the origin and historical background of many of the terms. Moreover, it offers coverage of flavor trends, industry practices, key success factors, a resources list, illustrations, and phonetic pronunciations.
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Third-generation candy-maker Jane Sharrock shares here some 400 recipes for mouth-watering candies, chocolates, pralines, crèmes, fudges, cookies, toffee, and holiday treats. This step-by-step candy bible covers everything from the traditional to the exotic. Complete with instructional chapters on the basics of candymaking, it deserves a place on every cookbook shelf. This collection features such irresistable treats as:
Marry Me Toffee € Pistol Pete's Peanut Brittle € Grace's Walnut Butter Fudge € Cherry Almond Bark € Panache Penuche € Raspberry-Fudge Truffles € and something called Aunt Bill's Brown Candy...
Plus: € No-bake cookies
€ Practical and fascinating information about ingredients and candy chemistry
€ Dipping candies in chocolate
€ A basic candy glossary
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The gourmet chocolate market is growing like gangbusters, and Truffles offers 50 recipes for indulgent chocolate truffles using high-quality chocolate infused with a wide range of fabulous flavorings. Anyone can become a master truffle maker with these clear, easy-to-follow recipes and tips on truffle-making basics, choosing the right chocolate, and decorating and storing truffles. Filled with beautiful 4-color photographs, this is the only book on the market devoted entirely to truffles.
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Bruce Weinstein, author of The Ultimate Ice Cream Book, has the answer with this collection of confections. Try his rich chocolate truffles or any one of a dozen variations; sweet, chewy caramel with almonds or coconut; buttery pralines with crunchy pecans; or light-as-air divinity, nougat, and marshmallow.
Craft your own candy Christmas ornaments to hang on your tree, pipe chocolate spiderwebs for a scary Halloween touch, or whip up meringue kisses for your honey on Valentine's Day. Bruce even offers step-by-step instructions for creating your own homemade versions of classic favorites like peanut butter cups, gummy bears, and chewing gum.
If you have a sweet tooth or know someone who does, The Ultimate Candy Book -- filled with hundreds of year-round treats and gift-giving ideas -- is ultimately satisfying.
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Known as the "Picasso of chocolatiers," Michael Recchiuti creates confections that are every bit as daring and original as any of his namesake's artworks. But unlike the painter, the chocolate maker has made it possible for even the amateur to achieve his artistry. In Chocolate Obsession Recchiuti, owner of the famed artisanal chocolate company in San Francisco, divulges his professional secrets and techniques, allowing home cooks to reproduce his exquisite confections in their own kitchens.
Opening with a complete discussion of chocolate from bean to bar, the book goes on to offer detailed instructions for dipped chocolates, truffles, and molded chocolates, including Recchiuti's signature ganache flavors: Earl Grey tea, burnt caramel, tarragon with grapefruit. Also featured are recipes for such sinfully delicious treats as Chocolate Shortbread Cookies with Truffle Cream Filling, Double Dark Chocolate Soufflés, and Rocky Recchiuti Brownies. With more than 60 recipes in all, this book will satisfy even the most obsessive chocolate lovers among us.
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This entertaining history with nearly 300 author-tested recipes will whet the appetite and awaken warm memories of that first bite of fudge.
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Guided by Carole Bloom’s so clear, so simple you’ll-kick-yourself-for-not-doing-this-sooner instructions, you’ll be on your way to making batches of some of the 90-plus treats found in TRUFFLES, CANDIES, AND CONFECTIONS in no time. Featuring Orange Chocolate Truffles, Vanilla Cream Caramels, Raspberry-Almond Squares, Espresso Hazelnut Fudge, and much more, this revised and expanded edition includes an updated introduction covering ingredients (buying and handling), equipment, techniques, ideas for packaging gifts, and the author’s special, trademarked tasting chart. Using tools found in most kitchens (you don’t even need a double boiler) and ingredients found at most grocery stores (including gourmet chocolate these days), you can start your own candy-making tradition. Don’t waste another calorie on store-bought, mass-produced candy—learn to make your own and never look back.
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Using maple syrup as the sugar ingredient, this book includes the classics plus relishes, breads, and desserts.
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This book is about obsession, cravings, and licit indulgences. It is about deliriously delicious, silkily sensuous, soul-stirring chocolate desserts, about Rabelaisian pleasures, and fantasies come true.
These seductive cakes, elegant ice creams, lustrous sauces, mouthwatering truffles, divine wafers, and unbelievably satisfying brownies are all from the kitchen of Marcel Desaulniers, a truly inspired chef.
At the Trellis Restaurant, in Colonial Williamsburg, Marcel Desaulniers has created a unique and innovative cuisine. One of the joys of the Trellis is its extraordinary desserts: Chocolate Phantasmagoria, White and Dark Chocolate Dacquoise, and Death by Chocolate — to name just a few. The recipes for these and other magnificent desserts are now revealed, detailed with foolproof, step-by-step instructions. Following the author's invaluable advice, the home cook can successfully create even the most elaborate of these chocolate wonders.
From a unique Chocolate Chip Cookie that will make all others pale by comparison to Simply the Best Chocolate Brownie, from Ebony and Ivory Chocolate Truffles to White Chocolate Ice Cream, from Double Mocha Madness to a fantastic Chocolate Wedding Cake, the kaleidoscopic glories of Marcel Desaulniers' chocolate repertoire are presented here in full color, each as delightful to make as it is to eat. This is a book for endless pleasure.
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In New York City the authors teach a unique and easy technique for making stunning sugar-paste flowers and ornaments. Their craft has drawn raves from Tiffany, Cartier, Caroline Kennedy, and Martha Stewart among others. Now they have assembled their 15 years' expertise into a complete step-by-step how-to and idea book. 200 full-color photos. 100 b&w illus.
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Here are nearly 300 recipes, each of them worked out to fool-proof protection: Raspberry-Strawberry Bavarian, creamy Black-and-White Cheesecake, Walnut Fudge Pie a la Mode and many more. 35 line drawings.
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There are few things more tempting than a dish of fancy candies. But here's a little secret—it's actually quite easy to make these sugary confections at home! Brittles Barks & Bonbons offers a candy recipe for every occasion and is packed with helpful tips on ingredients and equipment. For elegant gift-giving there are Chai-Spiced Truffles and Vanilla Sea-Salt Caramels. For movie night with the family Rocky Road Bark is deliciously addictive. And classic ?Buttery Almond Toffee is a festive treat for the holidays and perfect for giving. For the ultimate in simple indulgence there's nothing sweeter than Brittles Barks & Bonbons.
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Cakes are as popular as vases for displaying flowers—except that the sweet blossoms that bloom here are the artistry of sugarcrafters. Anybody can master the art of creating marvelously realistic sugar flowers—and exquisite-looking desserts—with these simple instructions, step-by-step illustrations, and close-up photos of the finished product. The emphasis is firmly on the simple garden flowers that most people love, from delicate freesias, pansies, and daisies to favorites such as roses and carnations to bold sunflowers and poppies. A special section explains how to arrange flowers into sprays and bouquets. These designs will add beauty to any table.
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"...nearly 100 recipes for types of candies that will have no time to melt in your mouths....the author's contributions to the cookbook shelf are twofold: one, streamlining directions so that anyone can duplicate good results, and, two, creating enough variations to satisfy different palates....Kids can wield a thermometer and wooden spoon too, thanks to 26 special concoctions written for little hands and sweet teeth....Color photographs aplenty."--Booklist. "...[one] of the best cookbooks...a beautiful book that contains more than 100 recipes and simple instructions."--Chicago Sun-Times.
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Hard workers, lunch box carriers, and children who hike a distance to school or the bus stop find snacks (sweet or salty) and special drinks a happy reward. Cooks turn out candy, snacks, and pleasing beverages to surprise and celebrate. It_s time for a break or a party! One of 12 cookbooks from Amish kitchens! The recipes in this series overflow with the good, old-fashioned food which comes from some of the world_s best cooks. These handsome cookbooks have sold more than 800,000 copies!