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Making Artisan Chocolates $14.99 Today's chocolates have gone upscale, mixing flavors such as chile peppers, caramel, or wasabi with high-quality bittersweet or imported chocolate. But creating such mouthwatering confections no longer requires a cooking degree--Making Artisan Chocolates will teach you all the inside tips, techniques, and methods for making designer-quality chocolates at home. Once only available to pastry chefs, the techniques shown here will help you create chocolates to rival those found in upscale retail stores and chocolate shops. Forget milk chocolate candy bars--the recipes in this book combine daring and unusual flavors to create truly unique culinary creations. Using ingredients such as vanilla bean, mint, and fresh raspberries, Andrew Garrison Shotts will teach you how to create one-of-a-kind homemade chocolates, truffles, and confections that will dazzle your friends and family. Includes more than 40 recipes for chocolates, truffles, and confections using spices, vegetables, fruits, and herbs for flavor Features tried-and-true culinary tips, techniques, and methods for foolproof homemade confections every time Step-by-step instructions, breathtaking photographs, and informative sidebars teach you how to create chocolates just like a professional chocolatier Covers techniques such as how to temper chocolate, how to make truffles, how to create flavor fusions, and how to mold chocolates Making Artisan Chocolates has a distinctive and easy approach to the chocolate making process. Andrew Shotts' technique, cleverness, and sense of taste are evident inside each recipe. --Francois Payard, Chef, Restaurateur, and Author of Simply Sensational Desserts and Bite Size

Baking Artisan Pastries and Breads: $15.74 Baking Artisan Breakfast Breads and Pastries offers illustrated recipes that cater to all breakfast needs: from muffins ready within the hour to more decadent treats, such as lemon brioche doughnuts and chocolate croissants. The formulas are generally progressive--the easier recipes are at the beginning and more complex ones are later. The step-by-step full-color process shots of techniques and inviting beauty shots of finished products coupled with clear directions will instill confidence in even the most novice baker. A short (20-30 minute) DVD accompanies the book, adding an invaluable level of instruction.

Making Artisan Gelato: $15.74 The word “gelato”, in Italian, simply means “ice cream,” but its meaning has shifted to define a type of high-end frozen dessert, made with milk, not cream. Gelato also has 35 less air whipped into it than ice cream, heightening its rich mouthfeel without tipping the scales. Gelato, in all its luxury, is simple to make at home with a standard ice-cream maker.Making Artisan Gelato,a mouth-watering companion to Making Artisan Chocolates, will offer 45+ recipes and flavor variations for three exquisite frozen desserts, made from all-natural ingredients available at any grocery store or market. From puréeing and straining fruit to tempering egg yolks for a creamy base, the gelato-making techniques included in Making Artisan Gelato ensure quality concoctions. Recipe flavors run the gamut—nuts, spices, chocolate, fruit, herbs, and more—with novel flavor pairings that go beyond your standard-issue fare.

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