150 Chocolate Cakes and Cookies

This is a mouthwatering selection of chocolate recipes, including simple sponge cakes, festive roulades, rich fudge cakes, exotic celebration gateaux, chunky chocolate chip cookies, delectable chocolate florentines, and many more. It offers clear step-by-step instructions and full-colour photographs of the finished dishes guarantee perfect results every time. Nutritional analysis provides a breakdown of fat, calories, fibre and cholesterol for every recipe so that you can plan for individual diets, as well as knowing the fat and carbohydrate content of special treats. This essential volume contains 150 recipes for a wide range of cakes and cookies. It explains what types of chocolate are best for each recipe and how to prepare the chocolate, and provides special advice about heating and testing chocolate, how to pipe and drizzle chocolate on to cakes, and how to make chocolate curls, leaves and other cake decorations. There are time-saving tips and creative recipe variations throughout, and all the dishes include an analysis at the bottom of the page so that you can see the complete nutritional analysis content at a glance. With its indulgent range of recipes and irresistible colour photographs, this volume of chocolate favourites is an essential addition to every chocoholic's bookshelf.