books about: confection

books about: confection

books:

Confection

Chocolate Obsession: Confections and Treats to Create and Savor

Michael Recchiuti, Fran Gage

"Stewart, Tabori and Chang", 2005

beyond obsession...
Anyone who loves chocolate beyond healthy amounts (hehe) needs this book! The best brownie recipe - EVER - should be the selling point here! The recipes are not for the "semi-homemade people" if you know what I mean - set aside time to love and enjoy the process of ...

Visions of sugarplums: A cookbook of cakes, cookies, candies & confections from all the countries that ...

Mimi Sheraton

Harper & Row, 1981

Visions of Sugarplums is Truly a Fabulous Holiday Season Cookbook
This is truly an old-fashioned style smorgasboard of a holiday season book. The origins of the holiday days in December and January are detailed and the recipes included have a meaning specific to Christmas, Hanukah and various European-celebrated holidays during that ...

Chocolate Epiphany: Exceptional Cookies, Cakes, and Confections for Everyone

Francois Payard, Anne E. Mcbride

Clarkson Potter, 2008

A REAL TREASURE FOR THE CHOCOLATE LOVER
This book is on a level that few chocolate, or to that matter dessert, pastry etc books have reached. It shouts quality from every point of view: From the excellent cover, to the gloss pages ,on to the beautiful photographs and finally to the most important aspect, the ...

The Artful Cookie: Baking & Decorating Delectable Confections

Aaron Morgan

Lark Books, 2006

Professional "How-Tos" for Easy, Elegant Cookies
This delightful book shows, step-by-step, how to create elegant confections from basic cookie dough. "The Artful Cookie" explains in simple detail, how to prepare four basic dough recipes and four recipes for glaze, ganache and icings. In clear language, Pastry Chef, ...

Landscape Confection

Helen Molesworth, Rowena Dring, ...

Wexner Center for the Arts, 2005

View the Exhibit in Person!
View this exhibit at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California: Landscape Confection Newport Beach feb 5 - may 7, 2006 The visually enticing Landscape Confection extends the boundaries of landscape painting with whimsical works employing ...

A Baker's Field Guide to Holiday Candy & Confections: Sweet Treats All Year Long

Dede Wilson

Harvard Common Press, 2005

From marshmallow peeps for Easter to Christmas Ribbon Candy and hand-formed Chocolate Leaves for Thanksgiving
From marshmallow peeps for Easter to Christmas Ribbon Candy and hand-formed Chocolate Leaves for Thanksgiving, HOLIDAY CANDY & CONFECTIONS: SWEET TREATS ALL YEAR LONG is a guide which may have missed our December issue, but which holds importance and value far beyond a ...

Truffles, Candies, and Confections: Techniques and Recipes for Candymaking

Carole Bloom

Ten Speed Press, 2005

Super candy book for everyone.
This is the best book that I have ever bought on candy making. It is clear and very easy to use--and the recipes are all my favorites. I really like the chocolate truffles that Carole does and the peanut brittle is the best I have ever had. I am going to make ...

Cookies, candies & confections

Favorite Recipes Press, 1986

Confection-ery: Mix and Match Stationery

Amy Ennis

Chronicle Books, 2005

good stationery set
Fun and creative. Bought as a gift for my little sister and she seems to enjoy it.

Chocolates and Confections: Formula, Theory, and Technique for the Artisan Confectioner

Peter P. Greweling, The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)

Wiley, 2007

WOW
Just recieved this book as a gift. There is so much more than chocolate in here. I going to read it through first before I make anything. I am so excited about this book, pictures are excellent,the recipes look awesome (pretty straight forward to me). I think my first ...

The Everything Chocolate Cookbook: A Chocolate-Lover's Dream Collection of Cookies, Cakes, Brownies, Candies, ...

Laura Tyler Samuels

Adams Media Corporation, 2000

The Nothing Chocolate Cookbook
I am not familiar with the "Everything Series", but after this miserable cookbook, I doubt that I ever will. I disagree with virtually everything in the first two chapters; they cover basics about types of chocolate, tools, and skills. They are incomplete, ...

Truffles, Candies, & Confections: Elegant Candymaking in the Home

Carole Bloom

Crossing Press, 1996

Chocolate Bliss for the Home Chocolatier
Carole Bloom says that this book is "all about pleasure" on page 1. This 200-page book includes recipes and techniques for making a wide variety of candy and chocolates right in your own home. The book is organized topically into chapters: Introduction, Ingredients, ...

The Dilettante Book of Chocolate and Confections

Dana T. Davenport, Ruth Reed

Harpercollins, 1986

Clear and easy to understand guide to confectionery
This book begins with several chapters on food chemistry for the layman, explaining not only what must be done to achieve various effects, but why. Anyone who likes Alton Brown will probably find these chapters enlightening. The recipes themselves are simple, easy to ...

The Art of Chocolate: Techniques & Recipes for Simply Spectacular Desserts & Confections

Elaine Gonzalez, Frankie Frankeny, 1998

No nonsense guide
A good guide for home cooks with the time and interest to play with chocolate artistically. Great overview of equipment and terminology. Inspiring photos. Thanks Elaine!

Creams, Confections, and Finished Desserts (French Professional Pastry Series)

Roland Bilheux, Alain Escoffier

Wiley, 1998

This series leaves very little to guesswork. Not for novices
An excellent and complete manual for French pastry. These classic techniques are taught to every French pastry apprentice. They are all basic instuctions but very detailed and can be built on very easily. Only caveat: the ingredients used are French and/or European ...