This title features 75 irresistible creations. Dark and dreamy, white and wonderful, milky and mouthwatering, here are 75 recipes featuring all types of chocolate. Chapters cover luxurious cakes and pies, hot puddings, chilled desserts, small cakes and bakes, chocolate drinks, and tempting sweets and confections. Recipes include chocolate classics like Black Forest Gateau, Mississippi Mud Pie, Death by Chocolate, Double Chocolate Chip Muffins, Chocolate Roulade and Hot Chocolate Zabaglione. It includes an informative introduction on the versatility of chocolate in all its forms, and instructions on techniques such as melting, tempering and decorating. It is beautifully illustrated throughout with over 400 photographs, including step-by-step instructions. Chocolate is both comforting and delectable, and has a fantastic affinity for combining with other luxurious ingredients such as orange, ginger, almond, coffee and cognac. It also has an unique effect on our tastebuds, melting in the mouth to release its aroma, texture and taste. This book makes the most of all these irresistible qualities. An informative and practical introduction offers advice on cooking with chocolate, including techniques on shaping, grating and baking. Recipes include crispy cocoa-infused cookies, oozing hot puddings and stunning special occasion cakes. Try Marbled Chocolate Cinnamon Tuiles, Valentine Strawberry Chocolate Gateau, or Meringue Pyramid with Chocolate Mascarpone, and you will not fail to impress and delight.

It is a book of recipes. Indulge yourself in the irresistible delights of chocolate with this collection of 30 delectable recipes. It features a wide range of luxurious treats to tantalize your tastebuds from Chocolate Eclairs, Chocolate Truffles and Chocolate Profiteroles to Chocolate Hazelnut Galettes, Chocolate and Almond Cake and Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, to name just a few. The introduction provides a guide to the different types of chocolate plus step-by-step techniques on how to temper, melt, drizzle, pipe, marble and decorate with chocolate. Chapters include Sweet Treats; Tarts and Pies; Special Occasion Cakes; and Cookies, Slices and Bars. It is illustrated throughout with over 100 glorious photographs and illustrations. A nutritional breakdown for each recipe is provided to help with dietary planning. No other ingredient comes close to chocolate for sheer pleasure. This delightful cookbook is full of mouth-watering recipes and will give you the confidence to produce wonderful chocolate creations. The introduction describes the different types of chocolate and illustrates the key techniques of cooking and decorating with chocolate. There then follows 30 sinfully sumptuous recipes with something for every taste. For a special occasion why not try Chocolate Drizzle Party Cake or Mocha Sponge Cake, or for fun tea-parties tuck into Chocolate Macaroons or Rocky Road Chocolate Bars. When in need of a pick-me-up choose from Nutty Chocolate Toffee, Chocolate Treacle Snaps or Rich Chocolate Pistachio Fudge. Finally, to round off dinner with friends spoil them with Chilled Chocolate and Espresso Mousse or White Chocolate Castles. With gorgeous photographs of each finished dish and clear step-by-step instructions, this is the perfect little cookbook for every lover of chocolate.