Chocolate Holidays: Unforgettable Desserts for Every Season - Softcover

Dramatic, seductive, playful, infinite in its variety, and otherworldly in its taste. It's chocolate, and three-time "Cookbook of the Year" award winner Alice Medrich unlocks its secrets so you can indulge your passion for it every day of the year. The beloved Alice Medrich, renowned for the impeccably written and tested recipes that have thrice earned her "Cookbook of the Year" honours - most recently the IACP for Bittersweet offers fifty stellar, amazing-tasting chocolate desserts, each a little jewel of elegance and simplicity."Chocolate Holidays" unlocks the secrets of our favourite sweet. Turning her attention to the year's most special occasions - New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, birthdays and anniversaries, Hanukkah and Christmas, and every day in between - Medrich has created dozens of memorable desserts that will help to make the traditions and memories of your celebrations all the more unforgettable. Whether your holiday festivities are large or small, whether you tend to the homey or the glitzy, you'll find everything you need in this boutique collection. This revised edition of the previously published "A Year in Chocolate" includes an extended section on ingredients, equipment, and decorative touches and detailed notes on how to customize the recipes to use the chocolate of your choice.

Chocolate Holidays is the ultimate chocolate indulgence—any time of year.

Fifty simple, elegant, amazing-tasting chocolate desserts—for New Year's Day or Mother's Day, Passover or Christmas, or any day worth celebrating.

Chocolate secrets and her very favorite festive recipes—from the award-winning "queen of chocolate," Alice Medrich.

Includes Chocolate Notes to help bakers who want to substitute the new higher-percentage chocolates, as well as extended sections on ingredients, techniques, equipment, and innovative decorative touches.

Chocolate Holidays has everything necessary to sweeten any occasion—for passionate dessert makers and once-a-year holiday bakers alike.

First published in hardcover as A Year in Chocolate (Time Warner, 2001)