You don't have to be a chocoholic to love 500 Chocolate Delights, but if you are a chocoholic, you will be in heaven. There are recipes for every conceivable chocolate dessert, and they use the full range of chocolate, white or dark, semisweet to bitter.
With an introduction that gives a brief, entertaining history of chocolate, tips on equipment, decorations, the types of chocolate, even a short account of how chocolate is made, you will be ready to begin to create heavenly chocolate desserts no matter what the season. The recipes are categorized in chapters that include:
- Everyday Cakes & Desserts: if you consider anything chocolate as 'everyday,' you will find recipes such as double chocolate baked alaska, or chocolate Victoria sandwich, a no-bake spiked cake.
- Cookies: cookies are varied and take to chocolate in a perfect marriage. You'll find recipes that are laced with chocolate or chocolate chips, with the addition of raisins or oatmeal or nuts, or a combination of those ingredients.
- Muffins & Cupcakes: Another infinitely varied form of baking, you can make muffins and cupcakes with fruit or coconut to add to the chocolate, the add a chocolate frosting or fill with a rich ganache.
- Bars: Bars can be heath-oriented with chocolate to fool us into thinking we are decadent, or can be unabashedly decadent. You'll find recipes for brownies and granola bars, no-bake fruit bars, cake bars or white chocolate fudge bars.
- Celebration Cakes: Try a white chocolate Christmas cake for snowy inspiration, an Easter cake with easter egg decorations, a classic sachertorte or a black forest gateau. Make a pudding or a souffle.
- Pastries,Tarts & Cheesecakes: These recipes range from chocolate baklava to strawberry & chocolate marshmallow bars, to cheesecakes and braids.
- Mousses & Ice Creams: Make a classic chocolate chip mint to a triple chocolate terrine to a ginger, saffron and chocolate slice, these vary the chocolate experience.
- Petits Fours & Candies; When we feel the urge for chocolate these may be the ultimate. Try rich chocolate-peanut butter tartlets, or rich chocolate truffles
- Drinks: Who can live without hot chocolate in the winter? Try one of the drinks spiked or sweetly unspiked.
- Frostings & Sauces - Basic recipes that you will use again and again.
There are more than 100 full-color photos by Ian Garlick to guide your eye, even as you are licking a finger that ran around the rim of the bowl.
This book is part of a series being published by Sellers Publishing. Each is fully illustrated with well over a hundred photos. Though a compilation of 500 recipes, the books are organized to be small in size and their uniformity makes an attractive row on the bookshelf. A collection of these books makes a lovley gift for the ardent cook or foodie. Please see our review of the entire series and click into individual books:
the 500 series of cookbooks
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