Art Of Chocolate: Techniques & Recipes For Simply Spectacular Desserts & Confections; Author: Gonzalez, Elaine; Author: Photographer Frankeny, Frankie; Paperback

Author: Gonzalez, Elaine; Author: Photographer Frankeny, Frankie
Paperback; Colour Photographs
175 pages
Published: September 1998
Chronicle Books
ISBN: 081181811X

This is not just a book of masterful recipes, tips, techniques, and meticulously detailed, easy-to-follow instructions. It is all extravagant paean to decadent desserts. Filled with luscious creations and lavish artistry -- Chocolate Swan Truffles, Enchanted Forest Torte -- this definitive guide to working with chocolate is unusual because it is written with beginners in wind. A cookingteacher with decades of experience, Elaine Gonzalez has devised innovative techniques to put the art of working with chocolate within everyone's reach. After mastering a few basic, any cook can create shimmering cakes, seductive truffles, and amazing chocolate sculptures. With The Art of Chocolate, even novices will soon roll, curl, twist, coax, and nudge chocolate to dizzying heights of fantasy.This definitive guide to working with chocolate is unusual because it is written with beginners in mind. After mastering a few basics, any cook can create shimmering cakes, seductive truffles and amazing chocolate sculptures.Demonstrates the art of working with chocolate, including candy making, cake decorating, and strawberry dipping.