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Title: Death By Chocolate Cookies by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 0-684-83197-X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly recommended for a direct chocolate experience
Comment: Marcel Desaulniers has been kind enough to bequeath on the chocoholics of the world three divine books devoted to it: "Desserts to Die For" (which also, admittedly, has non-chocolate desserts), "Death by Chocolate Cakes," and this one, "Death by Chocolate Cookies." Chocolate lovers everywhere should count themselves lucky to have Mr. Desaulniers' sumptuous recipes at hand.
Desaulniers owns and runs Trellis, a southern restaurant at which he goes through more than three hundred pounds of chocolate (not to mention two hundred pounds of nuts) on a WEEKLY basis. He knows whereof he speaks, so listen up! It's important to read "Notes from Ganache Hill," which opens the book, and which has Desaulniers giving us the benefit of his experience on everything from butter vs. margarine (use butter, please, preferably unsalted), ovens and other equipment, and, of course, the different types of chocolate.
I love Desaulniers' sense of humor and imagination in naming his recipes: Chocolate Crack-Ups, Franny's Big Bottom Pies, Black Magic Cookies with Blackstrap Icing, and (my favorite) Successively Excessively Crunchy Peanut Butter Brownies. I can highly recommend my most favorite of all recipes in the book: the Black Gold Cookies. These have something like four teaspoons of chocolate for every 1 teaspoon of flour in the recipe! They are divinely, richly chocolatey and people sort of lose their minds eating them, recovering later only to whimper, "Wh--what happened? Where am I?" That's the sort of effect a Desaulniers dessert recipe will have on you.
Rating: 5
Summary: I love this book!
Comment: I LOVE this book. It has become, over the years, one of my favorite dessert books. There are several recipes that I (or my girls) have made over and over and they have now become favorites. My kids' teachers drool over the cookies in their lunch boxes, and have requested them for their class parties. Some of our "tried and true" recipes include the Road Trip Cookies, Chocolate Oatmeal Roundup Cookies, Chocolate Boulders, Mrs. D's Chocolate Chip Cookies, Franny's Big Bottom Pies (which I also made ice cream sandwiches from), White Chocolate Snow Caps, and Chocolate Hazelnut Espresso Biscotti. I have had only one recipe to be a total bust, and that was the fudge. All in all, though, I feel confident that when I try a new recipe, it will work. My only caution would be in his recommendations for salt--to my taste it is a little too much and I usually cut the amount called for in half and I find it to be just right.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring cookie recipes I've used again and again
Comment: I am married to a pie man, but I am a cookie woman through and through. Perhaps unsurprsingly, this is one of my very favorite cookbooks, and one I refer to whenever I'm looking for a new cookie to try. It's provided much delicious variety at an annual Christmas cookie and cocktail party we throw.
We have high praise for the basics in particular -- these are some of our all-time favorites: Chocolate Dalmatians, Road Trip Cookies, Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Bars, Mrs. D's Chocolate Chip Cookie (best ever!). Elegant and yet simple: Espresso To Go. Walnut Toffee Triangles.
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Title: Death by Chocolate : The Last Word on a Consuming Passion by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 0847815641 Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications Pub. Date: 15 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Death by Chocolate Cakes : An Astonishing Array of Chocolate Enchantments by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 0688162975 Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Celebrate with Chocolate: Totally Over-the-Top Recipes by Marcel Desaulniers ISBN: 0688162983 Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Desserts to Die for by Marcel Desaulniers, Michael Grand ISBN: 0684811391 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Great Cookies : Secrets to Sensational Sweets by CAROLE WALTER ISBN: 0609609696 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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