Author: Maugans, Debby

Brand: St. Martin's Press

Edition: Illustrated

Binding: Paperback

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 352

Release Date: 15-02-2011

Details: Product Description "In this age of singles, couples and otherwise smaller households, Small-Batch Baking is an idea that's in step with the times."―The Dallas Morning NewsNo one can resist the allure of home-made chocolate desserts―but when recipes yield a full dozen or more, we often eat more than our serving size. In Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers, acclaimed food writer Debby Maugans solves the problem by crafting irresistible chocolate recipes perfectly suited for two. Featuring more than 120 cookie, cake, pie, tart, muffin, and scone recipes, over-the-top and lavishly loaded with chocolate of all kinds, nuts, candy bars, and flavors. Ideal for the single guy or gal, small family, retiree, or bride-to-be.There's a dessert in this book for every occasion: a fool-proof birthday chocolate cake recipe, a chocolate orange tart for Valentine's Day, or when you're in the mood for a little self-indulgence, a chocolate soufflé sized for one. Your sweetheart (and your waistline) will thank you! From Publishers Weekly Scones for two? A batch of eight cookies? Three brownies hot out of the oven? These tiny yields are the norm for recipes in Maugans's second Small-Batch Baking title. "Scaled back to manageable proportions," recipes produce handfuls of baked goods, ideal for the single person, those counting calories, or must-eat-fresh-out-of-the-oven die-hard bakers. The self-proclaimed "chocoholic" uses the cacao bean in various forms including unsweetened cocoa powder, milk chocolate bars, bittersweet chocolate chips, and even chocolate milk in her recipes for cakes, pies and tarts, and more. Clever ideas include baking "baby-layer" cakes in cans and making soufflés in eight-inch ramekins. Classic desserts such as red velvet cake and chocolate chip cookies are alongside less-than-traditional combinations including chocolate lime bread and java choco-banana muffins. A lack of photography may prevent gift buyers scanning the shelves from noticing, but chocolate lovers and those who want small yields will appreciate this straightforward title. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. From Booklist With more and more American households consisting of just one or two people, it�s often difficult to find recipes that don�t end up wasting food with quantities that are meant to fill four, six, or more mouths. Maugans comes to the rescue of such challenged bakers with a collection of chocolate desserts that serve just two. Pastry dough can be cut back to yield bases for just a couple of tarts. She suggests a number of cookie recipes, such as a dark chocolate pistachio shortbread or oatmeal chocolate raisin cookies. Desserts can be simple or as elaborate as layered turtle cheesecake. Even bread pudding can be reduced to a pair of small portions. In some cases, special small pans are required, but often it�s a matter of using just a couple of the holes in a standard muffin tin or improvising with some recycled tin cans. --Mark Knoblauch Review “An excellent, crackerjack new book. Bring on the baby cakes.” ―Marcel Desaulniers, author of Death by Chocolate, on Small-Batch Baking“Small-batch baking...is liberating: with quick mixing, baking, and clean-up times.” ―Publishers Weekly on Small-Batch Baking“Here's the perfect solution to dessert for you and that special someone.” ―Holly Clegg, author of the Trim & Terrific cookbook series, on Small-Batch Baking“Busy moms will certainly find the idea of small-batch cookies made from start to finish in minutes very appealing.” ―Library Journal on Small-Batch Baking About the Author Debby Maugans is the author of Small-Batch Baking, and writes the weekly “Tables for Two” food column for the Birmingham News. A food writer and stylist for more than twenty-five years, Maugans developed recipes for Fannie Flagg’s popular Whistle Stop Café Cookbook. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. SMALL-BATCH BAKING FOR

EAN: 9780312612245

Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English