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Chocolate Cookbooks and Recipes
Chocolate is derived from the cacao tree which is native to South America.
The seeds ("beans") of this tree are extremely bitter, but by
fermenting, drying, clean and roasting, they can be made into cacao nibs. Cacao
nibs is ground and liquified, to make chocolate liquor, and then is then processed
to make cocoa solids and cocoa butter which form the basic ingredients for chocolate:
- Sweet chocolate is made by combining chocolate with sugar.
- Milk chocolate is made by combining chocolate with condensed milk or milk powder, with sugar.
- White chocolate is made from cocoa butter (but no cocoa solids) with
condensed milk or milk powder, with sugar.
Chocolate is often eaten as a confectionary, but is used to make beverages, and used in an ingredient
in making cakes, desserts, and other recipes.
Here are some chocolate recipes from around the world.
- Chocolate fridge cake -
A tasty, but easy-to-make chocolate cake that you "cook"
in the fridge.
- Chocolate mousse - A French recipe for a
creamy dessert made from cream and eggs, flavored with chocolate.
- Cupavci - This is a Croatian recipe.
It is a biscuit-like cake which is cut into squares.
Each of the squares are covered with chocolate and dessicated coconut.
- Dobos torta - This one of Hungarian cuisine's most
famous recipes. It takes its name from its inventor, József C. Dobos.
Dobos torta is a layered sponge cake (usually five layers), covered with chocolate, caramel and nuts.
- Garash - This is a walnut cake, originally from Bulgarian cuisine.
It is frosted with cream and bitter chocolate, then covered with chocolate icing.
- Lamingtons
- Lamingtons are found in both
and New Zealand cuisine.
They are cubes of sponge cake, covered with chocolate icing and dessicated coconut.
In some versions of the recipe, the cubes of cake are
sliced in half, and a layer of cream or strawberry jam is spread between the halves.
- Nanaimo bar - This is a Canadian recipe.
it is a dessert made from three layers - a crumb layer at the bottom made from
coconut, nuts and wafer crumbs), a middle layer made from vanilla custard, and
a top layer of chocolate.
- Sachertorte - This is one of Austrian cuisine's
most famous cake recipes. Sachertorte is a type of
chocolate cake, and has dark chocolate icing and a layer of apricot jam in the middle.
- Schwarzwälder kirschtorte -
Known overseas as quot;Black Forest gateau" or quot;Black Forest cake",
this is one of German cuisine's most famous cakes.
It is a cake made from layers of chocolate cake, with whipped cream and cherries inbetween each of
layer.
Whipped cream, maraschino cherries and chocolate shavings are used to decorate the cake.
Clear cherry brandy (kirschwasser) is also used when making the cake to the traditional
recipe.
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In their second collaboration, the award-winning duo of Pierre Hermé and Dorie Greenspan unveil the secrets of sumptuous chocolate desserts. In these pages you will Þnd a dazzlingly delicious collection of recipes, all featuring the world's most intoxicating ingredient: chocolate. If there is a secret to the sensuality of Pierre Hermé's desserts, it just may be his intricate reÞnement of taste, texture, and temperature. Surely, this is what makes all of his desserts such a pleasure to eat. Here you will Þnd the simplest chocolate truffle-Black-on-Black Truffles, bite-size balls of bittersweet ganache tossed in dark cocoa-as well as the luxuriously soft and rich Suzy's Cake, which is spectacularly delicious yet quite simple to make. Chic desserts, such as the Triple Crème-individual ramekins layered with espresso crème brûlée, rich chocolate cream, and pure unsweetened whipped cream-or a cup of French-style hot chocolate, or a gâteau de résistance, such as Plaisir Sucré, will be the triumphant end to any meal or the centerpiece for any celebration. Through these more than seventy-five recipes, you will have the many pleasures of tasting chocolate in all its states-hot and cold, creamy and crunchy, smooth and custardy, thick and chewy, bittersweet and sweet, dark, milk, and white. Whether you are an expert in the dessert kitchen or a beginner with a desire for the delicious, this collection will introduce you to the myriad delights of Pierre Hermé's desserts, his unusual juxtapositions of ingredients, his conjurer's touch with textures, and his always perfect pitch when it comes to sweetness, tartness, and chocolatey-ness. Finally, there are the indispensable Base Recipes and a Dictionary of Terms, Techniques, Equipment, and Ingredients. Together they form a complete course in chocolate dessert artistry. Each recipe has been written with the American kitchen in mind, so that everyone with a passion for the richness of chocolate desserts can now enjoy Pierre Hermé's sublime creations at home. |
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