The Art of Chocolate: Techniques and Recipes for Simply Spectacular Desserts and Confec tions (Paperback)
November 11, 2009 by admin
Filed under Chocolate Baskets
Review
“Chicago teacher Elaine Gonzalez and photographer Frankie Frankeny have produced a beautiful and useful book of techniques and recipes called ‘The Art of Chocolate’. In addition to cakes, desserts and confections (including half-a-dozen truffle creations), Gonzales creates chocolate leaves, flours, cups, baskets and boxes. It’s for chocolate lovers of an artistic bent.” — Chicago Tribune
This is not just a book of masterful recipes, tips, techniques, and meticulously (more…)
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Worthy to have
This book has a few simple recipes that are worth making for your family and friends. Some are a little more complex but it has great source of facts.
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The Art of Chocolate
A lovely looking book and very easy to read. It contains some very helpful tips for dealing with chocolate and some lovely recipes.
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Not enough photos…
The book is OK, the recipes seem to be good (I haven’t tried any yet), but there’s a lack of photographs…
I think they are very important in cook books!!
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No nonsense guide
A good guide for home cooks with the time and interest to play with chocolate artistically. Great overview of equipment and terminology. Inspiring photos. Thanks Elaine!
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Beautiful, well explained book!
The explanations are clear and the ideas are great, but there are few photos that show the step-by-step of the confections. It is a pity!
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Needs more pictures
I just received my copy of The Art of Chocolate. There seems to be a lot of information, great receipes and “projects” in the book.
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Chocolate Lovers Delight
I tried The Chocolate Lovers’ Cookbook, a compilation by Juliet Cobb and ever since then, a great Chocoholic.
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Lynn (a pastry chef)
I am very happy with this book. I want to work more with presentation, and make my product more eye-appealing. The instructions in this book are pretty clear.
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Best Description of Tempering Chocolate
This is the only book I’ve read that absolutely takes the mystery out of tempering chocolate. My many questions about tempering were not answered by other books or research on the…
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Great resource
I bought this book to get a better knowledge on handling chocolate. I had some practice before, but was still pretty intimidated with the whole process of tempering and molding…