Candy Making For Dummies [Paperback]

David Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2, 2005

How sweet it is! More than 100 recipes plus terrific tips and tricks

Explore the art of cooking candy and create sweet masterpieces!

If you want to concoct irresistible treats for your friends and family, this book gets you cooking! You'll discover proper techniques and use them to create incredible candies. Recipes range from fondues to fondants, simple meltaways to decadent truffles, fun kids' treats to cream-filled delicacies. Indulge!

Discover how to
* Choose the proper utensils and ingredients
* Melt, temper, and mold chocolate
* Fine-tune your skills with professional secrets
* Create special holiday treats
* Bag, box, or wrap candies for gifts

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

How sweet it is! More than 100 recipes plus terrific tips and tricks

Explore the art of cooking candy and create sweet masterpieces!

If you want to concoct irresistible treats for your friends and family, this book gets you cooking! You'll discover proper techniques and use them to create incredible candies. Recipes range from fondues to fondants, simple meltaways to decadent truffles, fun kids' treats to cream-filled delicacies. Indulge!

Discover how to

• Choose the proper utensils and ingredients
• Melt, temper, and mold chocolate
• Fine-tune your skills with professional secrets
• Create special holiday treats
• Bag, box, or wrap candies for gifts

About the Author

David Jones has been making candies for more than 30 years. He owns Hansel & Gretel Candy Kitchen in Helen, Georgia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 392 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (September 2, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764597345
• ISBN-13: 978-0764597343
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #373,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Candy Making for Everybody!, March 13, 2006

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E. Gonzalez (Northbrook, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Candy Making For Dummies (Paperback)

There may be fancier candy-making books written by better known authors, but David Jones knows what he's talking about. He is a highly respected member of the candy industry and the owner of the Hansel & Gretel Candy Kitchen in Helen, Georgia, a popular tourist destination.

His recipes are precise and well written with much more information than you'll find in most candy books. Once you see them, you'll want to drop everything and get started making candy, David's way.

This book should be in every candy-maker's library.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Beginners, May 8, 2008

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T. Hooper "thdizzy" (Osaka, Japan) - See all my reviews
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I found this book to be very approachable as a beginner. A lot of other candy making books assume that you have previous knowledge of the terminology and techniques of candy making. This book, however, teaches you from the ground up, so if you're not sure if you're ready for candy making, this book will provide you with the first step that you need in order to get started. Another nice thing about this book is that it provides a lot of recipes, so you'll never run out of things to try making. In particular, I found the chapters on making chocolates to be very useful. Chocolate making can be a fairly technical field, but the author of this book makes chocolate making easy to approach. If you're interested in candy making, but don't have any experience in the field, then this is the book for you.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Candy Making For Dummies, January 10, 2007

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James Drouillard (Dallas TX) - See all my reviews
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This is a great book for the home maker. I have years of experience making candies and this book covered stuff that even a very skilled home maker would use.