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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 641.6374 EAN: 9780307238528 ISBN: 0307238520 Label: Clarkson Potter Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: October 10, 2006 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Release Date: October 10, 2006 Studio: Clarkson Potter Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Buy another bookTonight I tried my fourth recipe in this book. Not one of them was I proud to serve. They've tasted fine, but not great. Tonight's cake might as well have been from a box... in fact, a box cake might have been better. I was very excited to get this book. I looked for it in local book stores and then ended up buying it sight-unseen because of the good review from Martha Stewart and the gimicky set-up. Don't make my mistake, buy another book! Rating:  - Afraid to try more recipesI was very excited about this purchase and jumped right in as soon as I received the book. I was most intriqued by the vanilla caramel recipe. I tried that recipe many, many times trying to figure out why it wouldn't come out right. I never figured it out. After going through ten pounds of sugar trying I gave up. I'm hesitant to try other recipes because of what happened with the first one I tried. Rating:  - Gale Gand at her bestI found this book as good as all Gale's books are love it. Rating: - First a simple decision: chocolate or vanillaWith this cookbook, deciding on desert is easy. First you make the basic decision, Chocolate or Vanilla. Then you turn the book to the front cover that reflects that decision. Start with the front cover that's basically brown colored, i.e. chocolate colored and you start with some words on the basic nature of chocolate followed by page after page of recipies featuring chocolate. Turn the book over, and the cover gets a white background, i.e. vanilla colored. ... Read More Rating: - Gale Gand's typical light touch, Great source on vanilla!`chocolate and vanilla' by Chicago star pastry chef and Food Network maven, Gale Gand, with co-author credits for Lisa Weiss is a gimmick book on at least two levels. Ms. Gand is the co-owner of Tru (along with former husband, executive chef Rick Tramonto), one of the most highly honored restaurants in Chicago. But unlike her business partner Rick's cookbooks, which aspire to the heights of sophistication reached by Thomas Keller and fellow Chicagoan, Charlie Trotter, Ms. Gand's books all tend to be ... Read More 
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