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Summary: Decadent Chocolate Deserts For the Making
Review: This book is a must-have item for baking fans and chocoholics alike. All of the cakes are fairly complicated productions, but the instructions are clear and explicit and the results spectacular. I made the (aptly named) Excessive Espresso Expression cake four months ago and my family and friends are still talking about it! Go for it, you might hate yourself in the morning but you'll float to that guilty place on a silken chocolate cloud.
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Summary: A Must Have for All Bakers
Review: This book is well written and the photographs are fantastic. Marcel Desaulniers has done it again. I own all of his books and this one is another perfect 10! As a professional baker, I find the "Chef's Touch" a nice addition especially for friends of mine who borrow the book. It saves me from having to answer a lot of questions. If you love to bake you will love this cookbook.
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Summary: Wonderful book...Wonderful pictures!
Review: This is not a book for the chocolate faint of heart! The recipes are fun to follow and very well written. The photos are amazing! The recipes come to life with the wonderful photography of Duane Winfield!
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Summary: If you love making desserts, get this cookbook
Review: What I love most about Marcel Desaulniers' cookbooks are that the recipes in his books are what you will actually taste in his restaurant. I was so ecstatic when I visited his Trellis restaurant and tasted some of his chocolate desserts and found that they taste exactly like what I have made from his cookbooks. This is not always what I have found in the past. For example, many of the cookies from the Mrs. Field's cookie cookbook would never sell at their stores, they are so far removed from the real thing. This is a spectacular cookbook. The instructions are all very detailed, and some incorporate personal anecdotes and humor. The pictures alone send me to chocolate heaven.
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Summary: He's Done it Again
Review: Where would chocolate freaks be without Marcel Desaulniers? I adore cake and I adore chocolate, so his new book, which is filled with delectable recipes for all kinds of chocolate cakes, is right up my alley. I can go to it for a relatively simple middle of the week treat and right back to it when I'm looking for a special occasion cake.
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Summary: Completely in love with this book.
Review: Who cares about the thousand's of calories these desserts may have? When you find a beautifully written and photographed book like this one, it is a chocoholic's dream come true.
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Summary: Talk About "Have Your Cake!"
Review: You won't find such creative stuff anywhere else, trust me, one who's a cookbook addict collector and searches many sources for great recipes. Marcel is truly creative and stand alone in his relentless search and publication of such collections, all geared not for restaurant or competition but for us home chefs. Ingredients, equipment and techniques are all tried and prepared with us in mind. This volume on cakes is divided into five groupings: Baby cakes, Mom's cakes, Celebration cakes, out-of-state cakes, and sky-high cakes, with the common theme of chocolate. This guy really knows how to get to my sweet tooth, with nuts and fruit and decadent chocolate. Try the likes of: "Chocolate Porto Enchantment Cake"; "Milk Chocolate Peach Pecan Upside Down Cake with Peach and Bourbon Ice Cream" or "Chocolate Mai Tai." Truly, there is too many good ones, but feast your tastebuds on: "Martha's Chocolate Frecles Fresh Blueberry Ice Cream Cake" "Chocolate Caraway On-The-Rock Trifles" "Chocolate Tender Passion" As with each of his cookbook offerings, there is the super photos, Chef's Touch section with its fascinating background and prep and serving tips, and section on sources, ingredients and techniques, one especially awesome here is a Table of differing chocolate melting times using both double broiler and microwave methods. This one does take the cake
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Summary: Talk About "Have Your Cake!"
Review: You won't find such creative stuff anywhere else, trust me, one who's a cookbook addict collector and searches many sources for great recipes. Marcel is truly creative and stand alone in his relentless search and publication of such collections, all geared not for restaurant or competition but for us home chefs. Ingredients, equipment and techniques are all tried and prepared with us in mind. This volume on cakes is divided into five groupings: Baby cakes, Mom's cakes, Celebration cakes, out-of-state cakes, and sky-high cakes, with the common theme of chocolate. This guy really knows how to get to my sweet tooth, with nuts and fruit and decadent chocolate. Try the likes of: "Chocolate Porto Enchantment Cake"; "Milk Chocolate Peach Pecan Upside Down Cake with Peach and Bourbon Ice Cream" or "Chocolate Mai Tai." Truly, there is too many good ones, but feast your tastebuds on: "Martha's Chocolate Frecles Fresh Blueberry Ice Cream Cake" "Chocolate Caraway On-The-Rock Trifles" "Chocolate Tender Passion" As with each of his cookbook offerings, there is the super photos, Chef's Touch section with its fascinating background and prep and serving tips, and section on sources, ingredients and techniques, one especially awesome here is a Table of differing chocolate melting times using both double broiler and microwave methods. This one does take the cake
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