Features over one hundred color photographs, techniques, and recipes of chocolates and confections that can be made at home.

Chocolates & Confections, 2e offers a complete and thorough explanation of the ingredients, theories, techniques, and formulas needed to create every kind of chocolate and confection.Ê It is beautifully illustrated with 250 full-color photographs of ingredients, step-by-step techniques, and finished chocolates and confections.Ê From truffles, hard candies, brittles, toffee, caramels, and taffy to butter ganache confections, fondants, fudges, gummies, candied fruit, marshmallows, divinity, nougat, marzipan, gianduja, and rochers, Chocolates & Confections 2e offers the tools and techniques for professional mastery.

Chocolate and candy making today is undergoing a renaissance in public awareness and status. This comprehensive book combines artisan confectionery techniques with accessible explanations of the theory and science as well as formulas for use in production. Fundamental information for the confectioner includes ingredient function and use, chocolate processing, and artisan production techniques. The book contains 140 formulas and variations for beautiful confections, including dairy-based centers, crystalline and noncrystalline sugar confectionery, jellies, and nut center and aerated confections.

Sonia Nance has taken the mystery out of making delicious and beautiful chocolate confections like the professionals. As a chocolatier for thirty years, she has put together her favorite recipes with the home chocolate enthusiast in mind. Fun and elegant ideas, with easy to follow instructions, and a photograph with each recipe, give the beginner as well as the experienced chocolatier the tools for successful. Or Chocolates by Imagination Spring and Summer is all about using a simple product, chocolate coatings, and making it extraordinary. I apply vibrant colors, fun shapes and practiced techniques as well as incorporate ribbons and embellishments to arrive at an edible work of art. The idea is to give the home chocolatier the tools they need to make chocolate confections like the professionals or even better. Whether entertaining, gift giving or family crafting, you too will be able to take the ordinary and make it extraordinary.