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Title: The Art of Chocolate: Techniques & Recipes for Simply Spectacular Desserts & Confections by Elaine Gonzalez, Frankie Frankeny ISBN: 0-8118-1811-X Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Chocolate Lovers Delight
Comment: I tried The Chocolate Lovers' Cookbook, a compilation by Juliet Cobb and ever since then, a great Chocoholic. As some ingredients were not available in town, I grabbed this book 'Art of Chocolates: Techniques & Recipes from a friend. The books says in detail:
Start to Finish -
Ingredients and Tools
Melting and Tempering Chocolate
Spectacular Chocolate Confections
Chocolate Magic Tricks
Spectacular Chocolate Gifts
Spectacular Chocolate Cakes and Desserts
Basic Cakes, Fillings, Frostings, and Sauces
Easier to go through step by step with simple Instructions. The magic tricks are great I like most because once you make a chocolate, the appear has to be cool. So here's a mould,chocolate plates, bowls, boxes, cups, leaves, bows, flowers, tree bark various cutouts.Chocolate baskets, decorated boxes and various tricks is sure catchy. Of coz, some ingredients fall short in India, there's always some substitutes to use and I find it much easier to try my hand on one or two recipe but yeah, reading is cool n the taste touches the sweet tooth jes seeing the pics. A good pick.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lynn (a pastry chef)
Comment: 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. However I, like another reviewer, would have liked to have seen more pictures of the completed project. I am still very happy with this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Almost a Textbook
Comment: First, let me be clear as to what this book is not. It is not a basic cookbook full of recipes for toll house cookies, fudgey brownies, or chocolate birthday cakes. It certainly is not a cookbook for the casual cook who wants to make a chocolate dessert for an informal Sunday dinner. It is a mostly reliable instruction manual for producing impressive and artistic chocolate creations.
This book is an excellent introduction to the fine art of chocolate patisserie. It will lead the motivated reader to produce elegant presentations, table centerpieces, etc. It will be a great advantage if the reader is already an accomplished home baker. If you are, the procedures can be successfully followed. The recipes and instructions are clear, and give you all of the detail and explanations you need. Do not be fooled, however: the recipes require time, patience, and lots of practice. In the end, you will be able to create products that can be sold at the local bakery, and you will be able to fool people into thinking that you are a professional pastry chef.
On the other hand, this book does have a few flaws. All the recipes depend on presentation and looks; therefore, all recipes should have a picture to show you what your end product should look like. Several recipes (including Mouse Truffles, Twig Basket, Teardrop Dessert Cups), however, do not have any pictures, and the reader is mostly clueless as what the recipe should look like. At one point, the author states that one should start with the easier projects. Unfortunately, none of the recipes are rated as to which ones are hard, and which are easy, nor is there a list of recommended recipes for beginners. Also, several procedures, such as chocolate roses and chocolate birds, describe fairly complex procedures, and need a series of detailed pictures to illustrate the steps described in the recipe, but none are forthcoming. The last chapter on basic recipes for cakes, frostings, and sauces should be the first chapter.
There are also a couple of interesting points. It is the only source I know of that has substitution lists for substituting cocoa powder or unsweetened chocolate for semisweet chocolate. It also is the only cookbook that consistently recommends chocolate substitutes when it is necessary and produces better results than ordinary chocolate.
The book contains the following sections: 1) Ingredients and Tools, 2) Melting and Tempering Chocolate, 3) Spectacular Chocolate Confections, 4) Chocolate Magic Tricks, 5) Spectacular Chocolate Gifts, 6) Spectacular Chocolate Cakes and Desserts, 7) Basic Cakes, Fillings, Frostings, and Sauces.
All things considered, it is an impressive instruction manual that is a reasonable substitute for taking a course in chocolate patisserie at the local JC or cooking school. If it had a few more pictures (like Jacques Pepin's "Complete Techniques) I would be happy to call it a textbook destined for immortality.
It should be noted that the author is a genuine chocolate expert. She teaches master's classes and leads chocolate tours to the cacao plantations in central and south america. She is not just another cookbook author who has decided to add a chocolate cookbook to her resume (which is a defect of several popular chocolate cookbooks, including "Chocolate Ecstasy").
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Title: Truffles, Candies, & Confections: Elegant Candymaking in the Home by Carole Bloom ISBN: 0895948338 Publisher: Crossing Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Candymaking by Ruth A. Kendrick, Pauline H. Atkinson ISBN: 0895863073 Publisher: H.P. Books Pub. Date: September, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Candy Making Basics by Evelyn Howe Fryatt ISBN: 1895569257 Publisher: Sterling Publishing Pub. Date: 30 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Celebrate with Chocolate: Totally Over-the-Top Recipes by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 0688162983 Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Science of Chocolate by Stephen T. Beckett ISBN: 0854046003 Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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