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Summary: A "must have" chocolate dessert cookbook!
Review: As the holidays loom nearer, there's nothing like having a few desserts in your freezer on hand for those unexpected guests!The recipes are well written and easy to follow. And the freezing/thawing directions are very helpful, too. Plus, the author gives very good descriptions of specialty ingredients and where to find them.
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Summary: Easy, elegant, and delicious!
Review: Elinor Klivans has a way of leading you through the process of baking in such a way as to convince you that you, like her, can have any chocolate dessert come out deliciously every time! Like good travel directions, Elinor's instructions both within the recipes and in the margins of the pages throughout the book give you guidelines that encourage and enlighten you every step of the way. I learn something every time I prepare one of her recipes. It is really a pleasure to take the little time required as I have it to produce entire desserts or components in order to eat some and freeze the rest to compile later. Everything I've made from "Bake and Freeze" has turned out beautifully - and to pop something out for guests or to contribute to potluck dinners at a moment's notice is heaven -- and impressive to all. I have satisfied many a chocolate craving with Elinor's desserts and highly recommend to expert chefs and new kitchen users alike her book! which makes simple, impressive, and highly satisfying chocolate desserts a breeze.
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Summary: Easy, elegant, and delicious!
Review: Thank you Elinor!! Your recipes are exquisite, easy to follow and fun to make. And best of all, you have allowed me the freedom to bake when I want rather than right before I entertain. As a novice, I am often intimidated by some of your colleagues. I feel that you wrote this book with me in mind. You offer a wide range of recipes - easy cookies to your more complicated and creative pastries. Now I am ready to WOW anybody who drops by unexpectedly for dessert.
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Summary: Superb recipes: if you're on the go or simply love to bake
Review: Thank you Elinor!! Your recipes are exquisite, easy to follow and fun to make. And best of all, you have allowed me the freedom to bake when I want rather than right before I entertain. As a novice, I am often intimidated by some of your colleagues. I feel that you wrote this book with me in mind. You offer a wide range of recipes - easy cookies to your more complicated and creative pastries. Now I am ready to WOW anybody who drops by unexpectedly for dessert.
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Summary: This book makes baking fun!
Review: These desserts are yummy and a cinch to make. The author's directions are easy to follow and she anticipates any questions you might have. This is easily the best dessert cook book I have found. This book makes baking fun!
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Summary: This book makes baking fun!
Review: These desserts are yummy and a cinch to make. The author's directions are easy to follow and she anticipates any questions you might have. This is easily the best dessert cook book I have found. This book makes baking fun!
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Summary: This was a good book!!!
Review: This book was good i found it had alot of stuff to help me with making and choosing the right chocolate to use!!! The chocolate is a part of our world and we should all try it once and a while!!!The world has had its eye on chocolate and i think u should put some chocolate into your life! So that brings me right back to this book chocolate is the best thing to experiment on with how to make it you should try it once in a while!!! I made some chocolate and it was my first time and it just tasted delicious!! So if your a chocolate lover(like me) than you just have to read this book!!!
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Summary: Hey, It Really Works
Review: When I first ran across this book, I was skeptical. The positive comments on the dust jacket that the recipes really work convinced me and I tried them. I was surprised when all of the recipes worked (the ones I tried, anyway). I now regularly make chocolate desserts from this book and freeze them. Being able to just take something rich and chocolaty from the freezer, thaw, and eat is something not to be missed. Cookbooks written in the 1960's and 1970's used to routinely include instructions for saving and freezing the recipes. This is not true of recent cookbooks. This is a shame, as it a great labor saving technique. The home cook would make a spectacular dessert on a lazy Sunday afternoon or in lieu of a cancelled weekend activity, and freeze it for later use, mainly during the weekdays, when there is no time to properly bake a nice chocolate dessert (not to mention midnight raids for a snack). It is also an excellent way of preparing for parties and such. This book happily brings back this old-fashioned tradition our mothers used to practice regularly. I find 2 factors in this book rather quirky. First, the author recommends melting chocolate in a warm oven, then turning up the heat for the baking. Better methods are the microwave (the author states that she does not have one) or in a double boiler. You also must have a large stand mixer; there are no alternate insturctions for doing the recipes manually. There are some curious errors. This book should have been vetted by a test kitchen. Some of the recipes should involve the use of tempered chocolate (chocolate curls), yet no mention is made of how to temper chocolate or the use of vegetable oil based "summer coatings" (I skip these recipes; there are better ones for making and using tempered chocolate). Some of the recipes involve a dramatic visual presentation (chocolate-covered raspberry mousse mountain), yet there is no picture of the finished product. The instructions for freezing are not a part of the recipes, but are mentioned in sidebars, leaving the cook to guess as to how include the freezing instructions into the recipes. For the most part, this is not a problem, but it can lead to confusion in some recipes. They should have been integrated directly into recipes.
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