1001 Chocolate Treats: The Ultimate Collection of Cakes, Pies, Confections, Drinks, Cookies, Candies, Sauces, Ice Creams, Puddings, and Everything Else Chocolate (Hardcover)

by Gregg R. Gillespie (Author), Peter Barry (Photographer)

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Amazon.com Review
Most women already know that chocolate cures everything--and this glorious cookbook oozes with 1001 recipes guaranteed to satisfy chocoholics everywhere. Indulge yourself with such delights as Chocolate Cherry Truffle Pie, Chocolate Marshmallow Freeze, and a tasty assortment of cookies, sauces, ice creams, and just about anything imaginable that can contain a cocoa bean. Every recipe is accompanied by a full-color photograph--enough to make your jaw drop and your mouth water in anticipation of this chocolate feast. Happily, these recipes are quite simple to create, so you'll still have plenty of time left over for eating these angelic treats. --Naomi Gesinger

Product Description
A companion to the successful and sinfully delicious 1001 Cookies, here is the ultimate compendium of recipes for chocolate cakes, cookies, candies, sauces, ice cream, and everything else chocolate. Every recipe is photographed in color. The total combined caloric content of these recipes is three million calories--all in one volume! 1001 recipes photographed in full color.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (January 10, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188482286X
• ISBN-13: 978-1884822865
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 7.6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,010,582 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the simple to the sublime, March 28, 1998

By	[e-mail] "higginsn" (Salem, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

What do applesauce, cinnamon, chocolate and creme de menthe have in common? How about amaretto, hazelnuts and sourdough bread crumbs? They are the unusual - yet delicious - ingredients included in the makings of an Applesauce Chocolate Cake (#44) and a Chocolate Orange-Flavored Cake with Hazelnuts (#138). They are but two of the unique recipes found in 1001 Chocolate Treats. First of all, the names of the various cookies, pies, cakes and ice creams alone can make you mad with anticipation, but the full-color illustrations of the treats are what propelled me out the door in search of an all-night supermarket stocked with kiwi fruit in the middle of March! Pictures are important. As one ancient Chinese proverb puts it: "If it don't pass the eye test, it will never make it to the taste test." (Actually, my mom used to say that - and, yes, she is Chinese.) However, the photos aren't so sophisticated that you feel as though you have to have a degree in culinary arts in order to try out the recipes in your own kitchen. They look like treats that anyone's grandmother can make - it's just that we may never have thought of using sourdough crumbs in a chocolate cake before. And if cakes don't do it for you, how about a slice of Chocolate Cherry Truffle Pie (#580) or White Chocolate Pie (#645-my favorite)? In any case, the book is definitely a delight to read and the recipes, easy to follow. Chocolate- lovers would do well to add it to their collection. Actually, there are 1010 recipes in the book. Apparently, the editors had a hard time deciding which recipes to exclude. You will see why.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of great recipes, but horrible index ruins it, November 23, 2002

By	Timur Tabi (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

With over 1,000 recipes, this book is undoubtably the most extensive chocolate cookbook I've ever seen. You name it, it has it! But don't be surprised if you can't find the recipe you're looking for.

The index for this book is absolutely the worst I have ever seen in any book, because it only references ingredients, not the recipes themselves. It took me almost ten minutes to find a recipe for chocolate brownies, because I had to scan entire chapters from beginning to end until I found it. I can guarantee you that you will go insane trying to find a particular recipe in this book. That's why I gave it only three stars. It would have gotten five stars otherwise.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Delicious Cookbook!, May 9, 2000

By A Customer

A wonderful collection of chocolate recipes, from numerous chocolate cakes to the unusual chocolate chili! I don't recommend the chili (it was a little too strange for my taste), but most of the other recipes are excellent! The index could be a little better, but overall the book is excellent. Lots of pictures to drool over -- don't read this cookbook if you are hungry; you might end up taking a bite out of it!