Essence of Chocolate: Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate

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About Essence of Chocolate: Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate

Publisher Web Link: http://www.hyperionbooks.com/

The first cookbook from America’s premier chocolate makers, filled with recipes, kitchen tips, and dazzling photographs

As Americans have become fascinated by chocolate, and especially high-quality chocolate, one name has risen above the rest: Scharffen Berger. Founded in 1996 by Robert Steinberg, a physician and amateur chef, and John Scharffenberger, an award-winning vintner, the company’s confections have won a following among food professionals and home cooks alike. Now, in their first cookbook, the duo shares their passion with the world.

The Essence of Chocolate features more than one hundred spectacular — and often simple — recipes drawn from the Scharffen Berger files and from two dozen top pastry chefs. It is divided into three sections: “Intensely Chocolate,” which includes such decadent treats as That Chocolate Cake, in which the sumptuous flavor of chocolate is the star; “Essentially Chocolate,” with lighter chocolate desserts like White Velvet Cake with Milk Chocolate Ganache or Brown Butter Blondies; and “A Hint of Chocolate,” with recipes that use chocolate’s spicier qualities to their best effect, like Vegetarian Chili and John’s Cocoa Rub. And all will work magnificently with any high-quality chocolate. Filled with helpful tips, sumptuous photographs, and the story of how chocolate is really made, here is a book that is every bit as seductive as its subject.

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About John Scharffenberger

Author Web Link: http://www.scharffenberger.com/johnscharffenberger.asp

In 1996, John Scharffenberger founded SCHARFFEN BERGER Chocolate Maker with friend and business partner Robert Steinberg. Already an accomplished winemaker, Scharffenberger’s entrepreneurial spirit, astute palate and passion for artisanal foods translated perfectly into the production of the finest chocolate. Using the highest quality cacao beans from around the world, Scharffenberger helped to create the first new premium American dark chocolate in decades.

Today, John Scharffenberger is known world-over as a chocolate expert leading classes and demonstrations on the history of chocolate including how to taste and experience the world’s best chocolates.

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Essence of Chocolate: Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate

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