The Ultimate Chocolate Cookbook, Volume 1: Cookies, Bars, and Candies is a useful and beautiful baking guidebook. The vivid color photos spring to life and make your mouth water. You can almost smell the freshly-baked cookies by looking at the stunning photography that graces every page.
The cookbook features decadent cookie, bar, and candy recipes with easy-to-follow step-by-step directions. Using the simple instructions, every home cook can bake like a professional. This spectacular cookbook even makes candy simple to understand and easy to perfect. Every recipe has been tested again and again to ensure it creates an exceptional product that tastes amazing, looks stunning, and makes you proud.
In the Recipe Info. Section of every recipe, the reader can easily tell whether a recipe is: Diabetic-Friendly, Gluten-Free, Low Cal., Low Carb, Low Cholesterol, Low Fat, Low Sodium, and/or Vegetarian. All recipes are low or reduced fat and calorie. Don’t let that scare you off though! These recipes have been tested and perfected to produce incredible flavor, heavenly mouth-feel, and visually stunning baked goods. They are as enticing as full-fat recipes, often improving upon classics we all know and love.
Each recipe features: Large, spectacular Color Photos, Nutritional Information, Amount of Time Required (Prep Time, Inactive Time, and Cooking Time), Difficulty Level, and Recipe Yield. Most recipes are easy and 9 recipes are moderate difficulty level. Many of the recipes are Fun With Kids, another helpful category listed under Recipe Info.
The author, Michelle Miller, is a well-known baker, self-taught chef, blogger, and owner of the Cook Low Fat website. She has over 30 years of cooking and baking experience. She communicates with the reader in such a friendly, easy manner that it is like having coffee with a friend. This friend really knows her stuff and excels at teaching, making concepts clear and easy to grasp.
You will not be disappointed with this purchase. Ultimate Chocolate Cookbook: Volume 1 is so spectacular that it will leave you anxiously awaiting the next volume.