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Comment on Chocmod Truffles of France Original Chocolate / 1000g / 35.3oz. by Ned Kost

Ned Kost — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:13:09 +0000

Review by Ned Kost for Chocmod Truffles of France Original Chocolate / 1000g / 35.3oz. Rating: I have dealt with Amazon for most of my purchases. They have been very good to me in all respects. I believe their way of allowing purchases with me for other Buisnesses has been good as each is a gurantee I will not be mislead in anything I buy. .....Ned Kost

Comment on Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:02:03 +0000

Review by for Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder Rating: I loved this book! Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder is a cute, quirky, and easy-to-read culinary mystery fit for anyone. I picked this book up when a friend told me of the series, and thought it sounded cutely interesting, so I bought the first five in paperback in the cheap-o section. Hannah Swensen is living the good life running a successful bakery called "The Cookie Jar" with a caring assistant named Lisa Herman and living in a nice condo with her lovable cat Moishe in small-town Lake Eden, Minnesota. But when Hannah discovers the body of Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man of the Cozy Cow Dairy Farm in his truck, his body surrounded by Hannah's famous Chocolate Chip Crunches, Hannah decides to do a little investigation of her own on the murder. With delightful and wacky characters like Hannah's only-trying-to-be-helpful sister Andrea, her mother Delores that's obsessed with finding Hannah a soulmate, and the new dentist Norman that Hannah becomes closer to, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder satisfied all the things I wanted for a good cozy mystery, plus scrumptious and unusual dessert recipes. Read this book!

Comment on Chocmod Truffles of France Original Chocolate / 1000g / 35.3oz. by Nancy Kippen

Nancy Kippen — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:50:51 +0000

Review by Nancy Kippen for Chocmod Truffles of France Original Chocolate / 1000g / 35.3oz. Rating: These truffles were great but I suggest you get more than one order because they go fast!!!

Comment on Tortuga Caribbean Chocolate Rum Cake, 16-Ounce Box by Cheerful Reaper

Cheerful Reaper — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:47:44 +0000

Review by Cheerful Reaper for Tortuga Caribbean Chocolate Rum Cake, 16-Ounce Box Rating: We had these cakes sent to our son who is in training for the Air Force. He thought that they were great.

Comment on Chocolate Cake by jerry i h

jerry i h — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:39:22 +0000

Review by jerry i h for Chocolate Cake Rating: This is an excellent book for those who like to make chocolate cakes but may not be a skilled, experienced baker. If you are an average person who is trying to bake that chocolate cake at home, then I can happily recommend this book.The most important feature of this book is that all recipes are rated according to difficulty. Those who are beginners can choose easy recipes, while those who are already adept at angel food cakes and butter cream frostings can go directly for the complicated ones. Bakers of all abilities will be able to find a recipe that fits your skill level. For example, she correctly identifies French butter cream frostings as difficult. Other recipes that are impressive and seem to be hard are actually easy to do, and this book will rate them as such.This book has a lot going for it besides the rating system. The first 50 pages or so give you just the right amount of information so you can do the recipes. It is also very good about telling you what kind of equipment you will need for the various recipes. The recipes are clear and easy to follow most of the time. It also has a good dissertation on various types of icings and frostings, and matching them up to various cakes. The only short point here is the subject of matching up refrigerated versus cakes that can be stored at room temperature and what icings and frostings will match them. There are a few problems, but they are minor. The description of semisweet and bittersweet chocolate is not correct. The statement that margarine can be substituted for baking in all recipes is also not correct, since the margarine can have wildly differing amounts of water that will have unpredictable results on any one recipe. The author is a trained, professional baker. This is often good, as the instructions are based on tried and true professional techniques that really work (which is sadly not true of many books about baking), but she often overestimates the abilities of beginner bakers. The vocabulary can have professional terms or techniques not otherwise explained, and the difficulty rating of some of the recipes should be increased; for example, anything that involves whipping and folding egg whites should be intermediate, not easy.

Comment on 300 Best Chocolate Recipes by Julie Pech

Julie Pech — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:37:19 +0000

Review by Julie Pech for 300 Best Chocolate Recipes Rating: I came across Julie's book while researching recipes for my wine & chocolate pairing classes. Not only is it a unique and comprehensive collection of creative recipes, but it's also filled with practical information that's a value to everyone. The beauty of this particular book is that you don't have to be an accomplished Swiss chef to apply the recipes, but even if you were, your imagine would still be stretched. Cheers to Julie for her outside-the-chocolate-box contribution to recipe possibilities. Fortunately my research was accomplished as well--I found quite a number of her culinary concoctions perfect for pairing with wines!

Comment on Chocmod Truffles of France Original Chocolate / 1000g / 35.3oz. by N. Stillman

N. Stillman — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:26:27 +0000

Review by N. Stillman for Chocmod Truffles of France Original Chocolate / 1000g / 35.3oz. Rating: Buy them. But you have to promise yourself to put one of the bags in the freezer, or you might eat them all at once, damn the consequences!

Comment on Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Smash B

Smash B — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:20:23 +0000

Review by Smash B for Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder Rating: Hannah Swenson, the owner of a successful cookie shop called The Cookie Jar, is also a proficient amateur sleuth. When a popular local ex-football player is killed behind her shop, she is determined to find his killer. Will she succeed? Read to find out.

This is truly an outstanding novel. The setting is in the chilly autumn of rural Minnesota. The author does a magnificent job of describing the biting cold and the blowing snow of a prairie autumn.

The characterization is superb. The characters seem to leap right off the page and grow flesh and bones. They could be people in your own home town, friends and acquaintances of yours. Each one is carefully detailed to make them seem real and to draw the reader into their stories.

The plot is thrilling. The author kept me guessing until the last moment to find out the identity of the killer. The plot took several twists and turns leading me to dead end guesses repeatedly thus adding to the fun and building up to the shocking conclusion.

But the real star of this novel is the atmosphere. It's sheer coziness at its very best. One can smell the fresh coffee and taste the warm cookies as one shivers in the Minnesota wind. It's the perfect book to cuddle up with on a chilly autumn day and lose oneself in utter bliss. Also, many recipes are included so you can enjoy baking Hannah's delights as you wind your way through this thrilling mystery.

This book is a must read for any fan of cozy mysteries and just plain good story telling. This is a novel that will stay with you long after you close the pages. Highly recommended.

This collector's edition also contains a short story entitled, Candy for Christmas. This is the story of a young runaway whom Hannah finds in the deep cold of the Minnesota Christmas. Hannah sets out to learn the girl's story and to help her reunite with her family. It is a wonderful story filled with many of the same elements of delights found in the novel. It's inclusion in this edition is a real treat. It too contains many recipes to add to your enjoyment. So after your meal of mystery, don't forget the candy for dessert!

Smash B

Comment on Chocolate Cake by Catherine S. Vodrey

Catherine S. Vodrey — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:19:15 +0000

Review by Catherine S. Vodrey for Chocolate Cake Rating: Michele Urvater?s ?Chocolate Cake? is subtitled ?150 Recipes from Simple to Sublime.? It briskly trots the globe from Austria (Walnut Chocolate Torte) to France (Reine de Saba, or Queen?s Cake) to Mexico (Aztec Devil?s Food Cake) to Hungary (Rigo Jancsi). Naturally there are scores of prototypically American cakes too, from Pillsbury Bake-Off finalists to cheesecakes and beyond. Urvater came to write her cookbook in a roundabout manner. After having spent years working as a chef, hosting television programs on cooking and so on, she decided to enroll in New York City?s famed French Culinary Institute. After having earned her FCI diploma as a pastry chef, she had a new, more specialized outlook on her work. Despite her considerable expertise, Urvater doesn?t scare off the home cook who has never made anything other than a boxed mix before. In fact, the book is a calming presence in the kitchen. ?Chocolate Cake? is arranged so that the easiest cakes are in the beginning. One wonderful recipe called Wacky Chocolate Cake is an excellent start for any beginner, and is particularly well-suited to a child baking with minimal adult supervision (my 7-year old and 4-year old actually made it ALL BY THEMSELVES--all I did was read the directions out loud to them and preheat the oven--an added bonus of this cake is that it's eggless, perfect for times when you need to serve dessert to someone with an egg allergy or cholesterol problems). All the cakes have a degree of difficulty indicated--one star denotes easy, two stars intermediate, and three stars advanced.Urvater is relaxed about her chocolate choices. She prefers bittersweet chocolate to any other kind, but admits that when it comes to unsweetened chocolate, ?Any one of the national brands is acceptable. At various times I have used Baker?s, Nestle?s, and Hershey?s unsweetened chocolate. I tend to buy the cheapest one.?What kind of niche does a book like ?Chocolate Cake? occupy in a world where anyone can pick up a very decent cake at the bakery or even the grocery store? It will give pleasure to the experienced baker who wants to round out her repetoire with more dessert recipes, but it will also give confidence to the inexperienced cook who wants to make something splendid for a special someone's birthday. My only complaint is that I would have preferred more photographs--but overall, this is a super book.

Comment on Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Nancy Sapir

Nancy Sapir — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:57:05 +0000

Review by Nancy Sapir for Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder Rating: There's nothing more fun for a cozy mystery reader than to discover a new author with a fresh voice whose work one can look forward to for years to come. The reader gets to know the characters quickly and well, so well, in fact, that I found myself thinking, 'Wouldn't it be funny in the next book if Delores.......' Even the publisher's marketing is fun in that the book is a chubby little thing, kind of like the old Orphan Annie books of long ago. Younger readers won't recall these, but they will doscover the charm of the concept when they first see this book. Ther heroine/detective is Hannah Swenson, a well eductaed twenty-something who was called away from her doctoral program to return to Lake Eden, Minnesota to assist her mother after her father's death. Lake Eden is a town of 3,000 where, as one would expect, everyone pretty well knows one another, or can find out about each other through a grapevine that winds its way from kitchens to local clubs to church socials and to "The Cookie Jar", (cookie recipes included) a coffee shop owned by Hannah and operated with the dedicated assistance of a local teenager, Lisa. Hannah is challenged by first one homicide and then another, and she views solving the crimes as a way to help her detective brother-in-law get a promotion. As it happens, Hannah's whole family becomes involved in one way or another and the results are funny. Particularly funny is her mother, Delores, whose abundance of free time allows her to try and find a husband for Hannah who has never been married and lives alone with a fat one-eyed cat named Moishe. Either we are like Hannah or we know someone like her. She wears old sneakers and a sweatshirt. She's blunt, funny and kind, and she doesn't see herself as the object of anyone's great desire, but watch what happens. If you enjoy cozy mysteries, by all means read this one, and then wait impatiently for the next.