Luscious Chocolate Desserts

Sexy, rich, and good in bed -- chocolate is the ultimate indulgence. And Luscious Chocolate Desserts is the ultimate chocolate cookbook. Lori Longbotham, author of the best-selling Luscious Lemon Desserts, delivers more than 70 of the best recipes for tantalizing cakes, sumptuous tarts and pies, velvety puddings and souffles, plus melt-in-your-mouth cookies, ice cream, and candy -- all with enough chocolate to satisfy even the deepest craving. Recipes run from simple-to-prepare chocolate pound cake and chocolate mousse pie to more elaborate desserts such as chocolate profiteroles with chocolate ice cream and chocolate sauce and the decadent mocha tiramisu. For those who don't know their cocoa from their cacao, this compendium for chocoholics educates readers from bean to bar, including how to choose from the many forms of chocolate available in today's markets, plus the basics of storing, chopping, melting, and -- the best part -- tasting them. Luscious Chocolate Desserts is pure chocolate satisfaction for proud chocolate lovers everywhere.

New Baking Book

Baking Basics chapter provides short course for novices and a refresher for experienced cooks. Convenient symbols make it easy to find Best-Loved, Low-Fat, and easy recipes. Chapters include Cakes, Pies and Tarts, Yeast Breads, Quick Breads, and Cookies. Specialty chpters such as Baking with Kids, Holiday Classics, Spectacular Desserts, and old-Fashioned Desserts meet the needs of a variety of readers. Provides extensive baking tips and question-and-answer boxes throughout. Gives preparation time and nutritional information for each of more than 600 recipes.

Low-Carb Baking and Dessert Cookbook

Over the last few years, low-carb dieting has gone hugely mainstream, with low-carb diet books perennially perched atop bestseller lists and low-carb packaged foods proliferating on supermarket shelves. However, while they may not include flour and sugar, few of today’s low-carb products actually resemble the foods they are meant to replace. Now, with this one-of-a-kind low-carb cookbook, readers can create their own low-carb breads and desserts as good as or better than high-carb ones. Written by chef Ursula Solom, who was coauthor with the Eades (of Protein Power fame) on the hugely successful Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook, it offers more than 200 all-new recipes for great-tasting low-carb baked goods and desserts–breads, muffins, cookies, bars, cakes, pies, puddings, soufflés, custards, crepes, mousses, ice creams, candies, and more. From Sourdough Bread, Brown Bread, Coconut Banana Muffins, Vanilla Cookies, and Macadamia Nut Biscotti to Cream Cheese Fudge Cake, Pecan Pie, Tiramisu, Peanut Butter Ice Cream, and Kahlua Truffles, The Low-Carb Baking and Dessert Cookbook is packed with tasty treats and decadent sweets that will satisfy cravings while helping readers slim down and realize all the benefits of low-carb living.

Cindy's Itty Bitty Baking Book

Unique recipes for bite-sized (but packed with flavor) cookies & crackers from Cindy's Santa Fe Bite-Size Bakery. Illustrated.

Simply Divine

Just about any irresistible, totally decadent dessert anyone could ever want is made inspiringly simple in this comprehensive dessert extravaganza. Both the traditional recipes and more exotic concoctions promise divine results. Specially crafted to be faster and generally easier to make, these are recipes every busy cook needs! Among the deliciously easy indulgences are Chocolate Cream Dream Cake, Italian Rum Cake, and Marbled Brownies.

All The Best Cookies

Delectable no-fuss recipes to make quickly with readily available ingredients. One of a series of seven by Joie Warner. 60+ recipes.

Have Your Cake & Eat It Too

Child Award. Desserts move from a no-no to a yes-yes in this amazing collection of 200 low-fat recipes using natural ingredients.

Chocolate Book

This small volume is a treasure chest of recipes, tools, and tips to make scrumptious chocolate desserts. From traditional to elegant, you'll find chocolate desserts to satisfy the cravings of the most ardent chocolate lover.

Christmas Baking

Want to jazz up your holiday baking without getting frazzled? Then you'll love this easy to follow step-by-step guide to traditional northern European Christmas recipes.

La Dolce Vita

Now in paperback, this divine cookbook includes favorite Italian desserts: simple sweets served both at home and in trattorias and cafes throughout Italy. More than two dozen cookie recipes include authentic almond-laced Biscotti di Prato, classic sesame cookies known as Biscotti Regina and lemony butter rings. Flaky tarts are filled with everything from fruit jams and Arborio rice to sweet berries and lemon and chocolate. Cooling, delicate Italian ices are intensely flavored with mint, sparkling white wine and peaches and raspberries. To round out this scrumptious collection, the author has included recipes for simple fruit and cheese desserts, dessert sauces, explanations of Italian dessert wines and after dinner digestiviand, of course, how to brew a perfect cup of Italian coffee.

Joy of Pastry

Expand your baking repertoire with 100+ recipes for classic cakes and pies, fruit-filled tarts and turnovers, croissants and puff pastries, more.

Great American Dessert

Try shoofly pie, angel food cake, key lime pie, butterscotch pudding, or Boston cream pie. Anecdotal and historical information on the origin of each dessert.

Shortbread

Not just for teatime anymore, this tasty Scottish cousin to our old friend biscotti is as delicious savory as sweet--and a snap to make. A handsome invitation to a host of baking, serving, and nibbling pleasures, whether midsummer picnic or Christmastide fete, Shortbread includes White Chocolate and Raspberry Shortbread, Almond Shortbread Bars with Burnt Sugar Icing, White Cheddar Bacon Crackers, and more.

Christmas Cookies

With tips for baking, decorating, storing, and wrapping cookies, here are 24 delcious recipes, including: Traditional cookies from around the world Special cookies to give as gifts Cookies kida love to make... and eat!

How Sweet It Is...Without the Sugar

Jean C. Wade, a diabetic herself, has created a cookbook that is chock-full of welcome answers to the dilemma that plagues diabetics and dieters alike: how do you make delectable desserts without using sugar, honey, corn syrup or molasses—all those high calorie sweeteners that make blood sugar take off like a rocket? By carefully testing and experimenting with different sweeteners on the market, and often using fresh ripe fruits and juices, Jean has come up with nearly 100 great recipes that avoid the usual pitfalls of baking without sugar. And she provides fructose-based alternatives in every recipe for people who don't eat man-made sweeteners.