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Luscious Chocolate Desserts
Chocolate is always the ultimate indulgence. And in Luscious Chocolate Desserts, author Lori Longbotham delivers with more than 65 recipes for tantalizing cakes, rich tarts and pies, velvety puddings and soufflés, plus crunchy cookies and melt in your mouth ice cream and candy—all with enough chocolate to satisfy even the deepest craving. Bite into a slices of Classic Chocolate Pound Cake topped with a dollop of whipped cream. Serve the Quickest, Easiest Chocolate Mousse Pie at your next party. The Grilled Chocolate-Dipped Bananas will leave you reminiscing about your childhood, while your kids sneak off with the delicious Chocolate-Chocolate Chunk Cookies. Learn how cocao goes from bean to bar, how to choose from the many forms of chocolate available in today's markets, plus the basics of storing, chopping, melting, and tasting them. Luscious Chocolate Desserts is pure chocolate satisfaction for chocolate lovers everywhere. |
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ReviewsLuscious Chocolate Desserts is one of the twenty best cookbooks of the year in 2004. —Leite's Culinaria "Whoever said single-subject cookbooks were tiresome? I think it was me, but that was before Lori Longbotham's homage to chocolatey treats crossed my path. "I practically fell face first, mouth wide open into the gorgeous color photographs by William Meppem. His glossy pics of chocolate soufflé cake, chocolate panna cotta and chocolate ice cream sundaes with nib nougatine made me want to try every one of Longbotham's 65-plus recipes. "The recipes themselves are just as inviting. All are plotted out in a straightforward manner and rely on easy-to-find ingredients. Nothing daunts, not even the restauranty Ultimate Chocolate Marquise. "Longbotham also provides a short discourse on the history of chocolate, a glossary, a section on chocolate's connection to good health and a primer on tasting chocolate." —Caroline Dipping, San Diego Union-Tribune "There's no shortage of chocolate cookbooks out there, but this volume stands out for its user-friendly nature and the sheer deliciousness of its recipes. Longbotham (Luscious Lemon Desserts), a former food editor at Gourmet, clearly knows her material: she provides a concise history of chocolate, a description of the journey from cacao pod to hot cocoa, and a brief glossary explaining the myriad different forms chocolate can take. She even includes a short discussion on the health benefits of chocolate consumption, which should come as a relief to anyone tempted by fat and calorie-laden recipes like Killer Chocolate Cheesecake or Luscious Chocolate Custard Ice Cream. Individual Molten Chocolate Cakes have become a restaurant cliché, but made at home, they regain both their originality and their integrity. And Luscious Chocolate Layer Cake, a birthday classic, is rich, gooey and satisfyingly all-American. Some of the best recipes are the ones that mix fruit with chocolate; Chocolate-Hazelnut Spread on Toast with Nectarines is like Nutella to the nth power, the nectarines a perfect foil for the chocolate spread, and Crisp Chocolate Chip Cookies with Dried Cherries and Pistachios are wonderfully crunchy and chewy at the same time. The dried cherries provide a terrific sweet-tart kick. The diversity of the recipes, along with the photographs of all these heartbreakingly gorgeous desserts, make this the perfect cookbook for any chocolate fanatic, those who love to eat chocolate and those who just love to read about it." —Publishers Weekly |
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copyright 2003 Lori Longbotham |