Chocolate Bar: Recipes and Entertaining Ideas for Living the Sweet Life Review

Posted by Juanita Avenue on Thursday, January 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)I love baking and own A LOT of cookbooks.Chocolate Bar stands out on my shelf because the recipes are fantastic.I'm more than a little intimitated by their mole recipe and the towering cake but others like the pudding, brownies, gelatin (who knew?), RED VELVET!!!, fudge, and the awe-inspiring chocolate cake will soon be dog eared and smudged.Perfect and delicious.Not sure how I feel about the body scrub--why waste chocolate if you're not going to eat it?

This book has your standards--cookies, brownies, cakes, history of chocolate, kitchen supplies--but a really nice touch is the party ideas.I love fondue and the authors' idea for a fondue party would be a great thing to do this winter.On a final note--the photos.What's great about these are they show the way the food will really look--crumbly, gooey, and lopsided.The people shots are a nice touch, too.

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Product Description:
From the creators of Chocolate Bar, New York City's candy store for grown-ups, comes CHOCOLATE BAR--a delicious ode to the sweet that entrances so many, with more than 30 recipes from such stellar chocolatiers as Jacques Torres and Andrew Shotts. These range from classic cookies, brownies, and retro desserts to such renegade treats as White Chocolate Lemon Cream, Spiced Meatballs. . . even a chocolate body scrub! Co-founders Lewis and Nelson espouse a stylish philosophy of fun and enjoyment, with the focus on baking, drinking, dining, and entertaining with chocolate. They also explain how to educate one's chocolate palate by exploring products with various cacao percentages, origins, textures, aromas, and tastes. Readers will learn how to throw a chocolate tasting party, a swank chocolate martini soiree, a ski lodge get-together complete with chocolate fondue and hot toddies, or a celebration of childhood choco-centric memories, with the emphasis on sundaes, fudges, ice creams, and other nostalgic indulgences. Using Chocolate Bar's own unique entertaining and party ideas, they explain why chocolate is appropriate--indeed, necessary--for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.