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Chocolate and Vanilla
Gale Gand
Clarkson Potter
October 2006
On Sale: October 10, 2006
144 pages ISBN: 0307238520 EAN: 9780307238528 Hardcover
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Love Vanilla? Award-winning pastry chef and Food
Network star Gale Gand considers vanilla the lingerie of
baking: It’s an invisible essential, the thing you put on
before anything else; but when given the spotlight, it’s
every bit as sexy and alluring as chocolate–vanilla fans
would say even more so. In this flip/cookbook, Gand
offers tips on working with both vanilla beans and vanilla
extract, revealing which is best for what, and includes a
helpful substitution guide. And then it’s on to the good
stuff: recipes for irresistible sweets that showcase
vanilla’s beguiling flavor. With one section devoted to
desserts using whole vanilla beans–think Vanilla Raspberry
Rice Pudding with Lemon-Vanilla Caramel and Late-Night
Vanilla Flan–and another focusing on extract–such as
Vanilla-Blueberry Crumb Cake and Boston Cream Cupcakes–these
are recipes that are anything but plain
vanilla.
Love Chocolate? Say the word chocolate
and a chocoholic’s face lights up with visions of utterly
satisfying, rich pleasures. In this fun flip/cookbook,
award-winning pastry chef and Food Network star Gale
Gand shares her favorite ways to indulge family and
friends–and yourself.
Gand offers tips on buying and
working with chocolate, including demystifying those
ever- confusing cacao percentages, before getting down to
business with more than thirty luscious, tempting recipes.
Organized by type of chocolate–dark, semi-sweet, milk, and
white–they run the gamut from simple treats such as
Chocolate-Praline Cake in a Jar and Creamy Dreamy Walnut
Fudge to impress-the-guests desserts that include Mexican
Hot Chocolate Fondue and Chocolate-Almond Upside-Down Cake.
Accompanied by amusing anecdotes, helpful make-ahead notes,
and clear, uncomplicated techniques, Gand’s creations are as
much fun to make as they are to eat.
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