"Chocolate for Beginners: Techniques and Recipes for Making Chocolate Candy, Confections, Cakes and More"--create beautiful confections in the comfort of your own kitchen--impress guests, give a delicious gift, or add something special to your baked goods

 

Chocolate for Beginners: Techniques and Recipes for Making Chocolate Candy, Confections, Cakes and More

From chocolate enthusiast to home chocolatier

Making melt-in-your-mouth chocolate may seem daunting―but it doesn’t have to be! Whether you’re hoping to impress guests, give a delicious gift, or add something special to your baked goods―Chocolate for Beginners shows you how to create beautiful confections in the comfort of your own kitchen.

Progress through easy to difficult recipe tutorials for melting, tempering, dipping, and decorating. Try your hand at confections, cookies, sauces, and more―or add a little creativity to your treats using tips for gift packaging, adventurous twists, and fun substitutions.

Chocolate for Beginners includes:

• Bean to bar―Discover the basics with simple kitchen rules for selecting chocolate, tips on necessary equipment, troubleshooting suggestions, and more.
• Sweeten your skill set―Start crafting with techniques covering everything from coating confections, molding a chocolate shell, caramelizing sugar, and more.
• Cocoa cuisine―Satisfy your sweet tooth with 65 step-by-step recipes for a variety of rich truffles, tarts, cakes, mousses, and more.

Sling on the apron and turn up the heat―you have everything you need to start making crave-worthy bites that are sure to delight.

MY REVIEW: "Chocolate for Beginners: Techniques and Recipes for Making Chocolate Candy, Confections, Cakes and More" is a comprehensive guide to baking and cooking with chocolate. Author Kate Shaffer has included dozens of recipes that sound so delicious, you may be tempted to eat the book. However, you will want to save this invaluable learning tool and return to it again and again. If you love to cook and create, there can be a great deal of satisfaction in working with chocolate. There can also be much disappointment when your efforts fail, and you have wasted time and resources. Patience, optimal ingredients, and proper tools and techniques can help to ensure the best results. As you progress through the tutorials, the skill level of the recipes increases--and there are tips, hints, a glossary, and "Rules for Success". The recipe sections include "Chocolate Confections"; "Cookies, Brownies, and Bars"; "Cakes, Pies, and Tarts"; "Mousse, Pudding, and other Desserts"; and "Sauces and Drinks", Here's a sampler of the wonderful recipes: "Coffee Bean Truffles"; "Three-Layer Chocolate and Caramel Cheesecake Bars"; "Classic Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache Frosting"; and "Orange and Milk Chocolate Mousse".

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Kate Shaffer



Kate is the founder and owner of Black Dinah Chocolatiers, an artisanal chocolate confectionery which utilizes sustainably produced chocolates and locally sourced fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers. She was chosen by Dessert Professional as a Top Ten Chocolatier in North America (2011), and is the winner of two Good Food Awards (2015, 2016). Black Dinah Chocolatiers' unique business model, and Kate's chocolates, have been featured in Martha Stewart Living Magazine, Gourmet Magazine, The Boston Globe, Ralph Lauren Magazine, and many other national and regional publications. 

Kate's book Desserted: Recipes and Tales from an Island Chocolatier, was a Bronze medalist in the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards, a Finalist in the 2011 Foreword Indies Awards, and Food & Wine's Top 25 Cookbooks of the Year in 2011. Kate has written about food and chocolate for the Portland Press Herald, Zest Magazine, Maine Food & Lifestyle, and Edible Maine.

(https://www.blackdinahchocolatiers.com)