Provides over one hundred recipes and cooking tips involving chocolate, ranging from "intensely chocolate" to "a hint of chocolate," along with a history of chocolate, chocolate farming, and the origins of the Scharffenberger chocolate business.

"A sassy new twist on traditional recipes containing chocolate."--

The Cake Mix Doctor goes chocolate! Anne Byrn brings her proven prescription for doctoring cake mix to an ingredient that inspires love bordering on obsession. It's a marriage made in baker's heaven-150 all-new, all-easy recipes for cakes, starring the ingredient that surpasses all other flavors, including vanilla, by a 3-to-1 margin, and that Americans consume to the tune of 2.8 billion pounds a year. Starting with versatile supermarket cake mixes...

A celebration of chocolate, sweet, rich, complex, luxurious - chocolate's allure knows no limit. There are no limits on this collection of more than 20 sumptuous recipes to indulge in.

"Maida Heatter is one of the most trusted and beloved cookbook authors of all time. Her recipes, each a modern classic, have inspired extraordinary bakers such as Dorie Greenspan, Christina Tosi, and David Lebovitz, whose foreword introduces the joy of baking with Maida to a new generation. Throughout Maida's nearly 50-year career as a "genius" of baking (New York Times), one thing was constant: her passion for chocolate. She created hundreds of recipes...

"No one can resist the allure of home-made chocolate desserts--but when recipes yeild a full dozen or more, we often eat more than our serving size. In Small Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers, acclaimed food writer Debby Maugans solves the problem by crafting irresistible recipes perfectly suited for two. Ideal for the single gal, small family, retiree, or bride-to-be, the book features over 120 cookie, cake, pie, tart, muffin, and scone recipes,...

Complete with recipes, a guide provides an informative review of the history of chocolate by explaining where it originated, how it was originally used and by whom, how it is grown and processed, how it came to be made into tasty treats in modern times, and more.

Learn how to have fun with chocolate throughout the year by creating all sorts of holiday confections, including: Decorative Boxes with lids, Winter Molds of Trees & Stars, Spring Molds of Bunnies & Eggs, Chocolate Pizzas (Fruit & Nut Bark), Peanut Butter Cups, Fudge, Fondant for hand dipped Cherry Cordials, Tuxedo Strawberries, Dark Chocolate Truffles, French Truffles, Lemon Ginger Truffle, Flowers & Leaves, and Hazelnut Bars.